Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, today announced senior level management changes in line with the German auto major’s integration of certain key areas in its Asian truck business model.
Aydogan Cakmaz, Head — R&D at DICV, will take over as Head — R&D for Trucks Asia and will based at the MFTBC Headquarters at Kawasaki, Japan, effective July 1, 2013, the company said in a statement.
Cakmaz will oversee all R&D operations of Daimler Trucks for Asia. He was instrumental in the development of the BharatBenz range of trucks building in them the reliability arising out of intense testing and engineering, it added.
Under the recently announced Daimler Trucks Asian business model involving integration of certain key areas, the first integration involves the R&D of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC) (a Daimler Company), Japan.
Hidekazo Kanno, Head — Product Lifecycle Management at MFTBC, Japan, will take over as Head — R&D for DICV, at Chennai, effective today. He will now report to Cakmaz, the company added.
In an other change not related to the Asian Business Model, DICV said its CFO Sanjiv Khurana will take over as President — Remanufacturing Division, Daimler Trucks North America at Portland, Oregon, USA, effective July 1, 2013.
Khurana has completed his term at DICV. He has been with DICV since its inception. As a key member of DICV’s Executive Committee and several core teams, he has contributed immensely to DICV’s establishment in India, it added.
Subsequently, Parthasarathy Thota, Head — Light/ Medium— duty Trucks (L/MDT) Project for BharatBenz at DICV, will take over as the CFO of DICV, the company said.
Thota as Head of the L/MDT project established the BharatBenz portfolio of L/MDT Trucks, which was launched in February this year. Earlier, Thota handled several responsibilities in the areas of Finance and Controlling at Daimler’s Freightliner Division in the USA.