Jan Ohlsson was appointed a member of Volvo’s group executive board and executive vice president of Group Trucks Operations, Volvo Group’s global truck manufacturing organization. Ohlsson currently serves as the acting head of Group Trucks Operations.

Ohlsson has worked at the Volvo Group since 1979. He has held a number of different roles in the group’s truck manufacturing operations, with experience from manufacturing in Europe, North and South America and Japan. He has worked as the manager of the Tuve factory in Gothenburg and as the head of Powertrain Production and Global Trucks Manufacturing. He will take office on June 1, 2016.

The Volvo Group is an international manufacturer of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines.