• Sagree Sardien, currently Head of Region Overseas, will take over the responsibility as Head of Sales & Marketing Mercedes‑Benz Van.
• She is succeeding Klaus Rehkugler, who will take over the position as Head of the newly created area Product Management Mercedes‑Benz Cars as of May 1st, 2025.

Sagree Sardien will take over the responsibility as Head of Sales & Marketing Mercedes‑Benz Vans effective May 1st, 2025, succeeding Klaus Rehkugler, who will take over the position as Head of the newly created area Product Management Mercedes‑Benz Cars.

Sagree began her Mercedes-Benz career with Daimler Fleet Management as Head of Operations in South Africa in 2008. Afterwards, she held various leadership positions in Sales, Product Management, Aftersales, Parts Logistics, Customer Assistance as well as Supply Chain & Distribution. During her tenure in South Africa, Sagree also successfully implemented and steered the transition of the South African market to the direct sales Model in 2017. In 2018 she moved to Stuttgart and took over the position as Head of Market Management for Japan, Korea, Australia, Turkey, South Africa, Middle East & Egypt, before she became CEO & President of MB Malaysia & Head of South East Asia in 2021, being responsible for the markets Malaysia, Singapore and back then Indonesia, as well as ten General Distributors. In 2023, she changed to her current role as Head of Marketing & Sales Mercedes-Benz Cars Overseas. In this function Sagree is responsible for the Sales & Marketing in about 120 markets, including the General Distributor business. She also is holding several Board of Director seats for Mercedes-Benz MPCs across the region Overseas.

During her tenure as Head of Region Overseas Sagree has strongly focused on steering of the complexity of the diverse Overseas markets as well as driving the implementation of various strategy and transformation initiatives.