Personnel
Changes at Daimler Trucks & Buses
Mirko Sgodda, currently Head of Compliance Trucks & Buses, will become the new Head of Marketing, Sales and Customer Services at Daimler Buses on October 1, 2020. He succeeds Ulrich Bastert, who will retire on September 30, 2020 after 35 years with the Daimler Group.
"I would like to sincerely thank Ulrich Bastert for more than three successful decades in various key functions at Daimler Trucks & Buses," said Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG. "In addition to his incomparable sales expertise, Ulrich Bastert is one of our strongest management personalities entering his well-deserved retirement. His entrepreneurial attitude and consistent customer focus are exemplary. We wish him all the best for the new phase of his life."
"With Mirko Sgodda, a highly competent and very experienced manager is taking over the management of the Marketing, Sales and Customer Services division at Daimler Buses. He is characterized by extensive sales experience, also in the commercial vehicle sector in a wide variety of regions. In addition, he has consistently developed the compliance organization of Daimler Trucks & Buses in recent years. We are very pleased that Mirko Sgodda will now be part of the Daimler Buses management team," said Till Oberwörder, Head of Daimler Buses.
Mirko Sgodda started his Daimler career in 2002 and has since held various sales positions across all Group brands. In 2013, he took over the "Business Development" division at Mercedes-Benz Retail in Berlin as a member of the Executive Board. Since 2017, he has been the Compliance Officer responsible for the Daimler Trucks & Buses divisions in the Integrity & Legal department in Stuttgart.
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