Karin Rådström
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| Born | 22 February 1979 Södertälje, Sweden |
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| Spouse | Daniel Rådström |
| Children | 2 |
Karin Elisabeth Rådström (born 22 February 1979) is a Swedish engineer and business executive in the commercial vehicle segment. She has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck since February 2021 and has been responsible for the Mercedes-Benz truck brand there since May.
Career
[edit]Rådström was born in Södertälje[1] and grew up in Nynäshamn and for seven years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[2] She first studied at Queen's University at Kingston for a year and then as a civil engineer in Industrial Engineering and Sustainability at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and then became a trainee at Scania in Södertälje in 2004. After various positions in the company, she became Director of Pre Sales & Marketing Communication in Kenya and in 2016, head of Scania Bus Business. In 2019, Radström was appointed to the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing.
In 2021, she became a member of Daimler Truck AG's management team (Vorstandsmitglied der Daimler Truck AG) of seven people, with responsibility for the regions of Europe and Latin America and for Daimler's Mercedes-Benz trucks.[1] On 1 october 2024, she became CEO (Vorstandsvorsitzende) of Daimler Truck. She is only the second woman to lead an enterprise among those in the German DAX stock index.
Personal life
[edit]During the latter part of the 2000s, Rådström was an elite athlete in rowing, with three years in the national team.[3][4] She is married to Daniel Rådström and has two children.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Karin Rådström" (in German). Daimler Trucks.
- ^ a b [Karriärpodden nr 196 Karin Rådström den 2 februari 2021]
- ^ "Cecilia Lilja till EM med ny partner". www.ttela.se (in Swedish). 8 September 2010.
- ^ Hon lägger sin egen kurs på Scanias webbplats, läst den 5 maj 2021
- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Södertälje
- Women corporate executives
- Mercedes-Benz Group executives
- Scania AB people
- 21st-century Swedish businesswomen
- 21st-century Swedish businesspeople
- Swedish women business executives
- Swedish women engineers
- Queen's University at Kingston alumni
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
- 21st-century Swedish women engineers
- 20th-century Swedish women
- 21st-century Swedish engineers