(Newswire.net — September 12, 2013) Stuttgart/Affalterbach — Mercedes’s AMG Services division will be headed by a new chief executive, beginning in the fall of 2013. AMG veteran Tobias Moers will take over for Ola Kallenius, who will become the new Head of Sales and Marketing for Mercedes-Benz at that time.
As announced recently on the Daimler AG website, the high performance arm of Mercedes automotive manufacturing, AMG Services, will be under new leadership in the fall of 2013. According to the announcement, Tobias Moers has been appointed by the Daimler AG Board of Management to become the new AMG Chief Executive. Tobias Moers will be filling the vacancy left by current AMG Chief Executive Ola Kallenius, when Kallenius moves into his new position as the Head of Sales and Marketing at Mercedes-Benz. The current Head of Sales and Marketing for Mercedes-Benz is Dr. Joachim Schmidt, who will be retiring at the end of 2013.
Daimler AG reports that Tobias Moers, who has been with AMG since 1994, is perfectly suited for the position and comes with glowing recommendations from Daimler AG Board Members. In the company’s announcement, they provided the opinion of Professor Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG for Group Research and Development Mercedes-Benz Cars. Dr. Weber heartily endorsed Tobias Moers, saying that he “has gasoline in his veins. With his technical expertise and enthusiasm for high-performance automobiles, he has made an important contribution to the success of our high-performance brand in recent years. He is an out-and-out AMG man who has helped shaping the brand for nearly 20 years now.”
According to Daimler AG, Moers was born in 1966 in Freiburg. When Tobias Moers began his work at AMG Services in 1994, he worked in various development positions. After five years of service to AMG, Moers took over all responsibility for the primary AMG model series. He furthered his responsibilities in 2002 when he was put in charge of complete AMG automobile development. Since 2011, Tobias Moers has sat on the executive board of Mercedes-AMG GmbH.
AMG Services manufactures high-performance cars for the Mercedes-Benz brand. The company began as a racing engine forge in the late 1960’s and came under the control of Daimler in 1990. Since 2005, Daimler AG has been the sole owner of AMG. Daimler expects the experience and loyalty of Tobias Moers to make for a smooth transition as he assumes his new role as Chief Executive of AMG.