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 Daimler Truck AG (holding company legal name Daimler Truck Holding AG) is one of the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, with over 35 main locations worldwide and approximately 100,000 employees. Daimler Truck AG is headquartered in ...

since February 2021 and has been responsible for the

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truck brand there since May.

Career

Rådström was born in

Södertälje Södertälje ( , ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in Södermanland and Stockholm County, Sweden and seat of Södertälje Municipality. As of 2017, it has 72,704 inhabitants. Södertälje is located at Mälarens confluence in to the Baltic Sea ...

and grew up in

Nynäshamn Nynäshamn is a locality and the seat of Nynäshamn Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 13,510 inhabitants in 2010. While interest in the area as a potentially useful port grew from the mid 19th Century, it was only with the opening of the ...

and for seven years in

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, Canada. 'Karriärpodden nr 196 Karin Rådström'' den 2 februari 2021/ref> She first studied at

Queen's University at Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Suss ...

for a year and then as a civil engineer in Industrial Engineering and Sustainability at the

KTH Royal Institute of Technology The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolo ...

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

and then became a trainee at

Scania Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conte ...

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.

Personal life

During the latter part of the 2000s, Rådström was an elite athlete in rowing, with three years in the national team.''Hon lägger sin egen kurs'' på Scanias webbplats
läst den 5 maj 2021 She is married to Daniel Rådström and has two children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radstrom, Karin 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