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Ola Källenius

here’s a new sheriff in town. Ola Källenius, 49, took over as CEO of Daimler AG on May 22, replacing longtime boss Dieter Zetsche, who faced mandatory retirement but will return as chairman of the supervisory board in 2021. Zetsche, CEO for 13 years, helped groom the Swede who becomes Daimler’s first non-German CEO. We talked to Källenius at the Geneva Motor Show as he prepared to take over an automaker working to reinvent

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