Britta Seeger

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Britta Seeger
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Seeger at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show
Born (1969-09-25) 25 September 1969 (age 51)
Bonn, West Germany[1]
OccupationBusiness executive
Known forDaimler AG executive

Britta Seeger (born 25 September 1969) is a German business executive. She is currently the second female member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG alongside Renata Jungo Brüngger[2] and, after her predecessor Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, the third woman in the history of Daimler AG to be appointed to the Board of Management.

Biography[]

After attending the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Fellbach, Seeger studied business administration at the Stuttgart University of Cooperative Education. She then worked in the passenger car division of what was then Daimler-Benz AG. After several positions at the corporate headquarters, Seeger switched to the commercial vehicle division in 2013, where she was initially responsible for the South Korean and then for the Turkish market. In South Korea, she was the first woman to hold a management position at a foreign automobile manufacturer.[3]

After her return, she was appointed to the Group's Executive Board on 1 January 2017. There, she succeeds Ola Källenius as Head of Sales for Mercedes-Benz Cars, who has taken over the research and development department. In addition to this activity, Seeger holds other positions on the board of directors of Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team and Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix within the Daimler group.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Britta Seeger – Lebenslauf". daimler.com. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Zwei von acht – Britta Seeger wird zweite Frau im Daimler-Vorstand". manager-magazin.de. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Magazin – 10 Fragen an: Britta Seeger – Goethe-Institut Korea". goethe.de. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Annual Financial Statements 2017 Daimler AG" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2019.
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