FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Daimler Truck’s Chief Monetary Officer Jochen Goetz has died in a “tragic accident,” the corporate mentioned on Sunday.
Goetz, 52, died on Saturday, a press release mentioned, with out giving particulars of the accident.
Goetz spent his whole skilled profession, spanning greater than 36 years, within the Daimler Group, and was largely accountable for the profitable spin-off of Daimler Truck Holding from what’s now the Mercedes-Benz Group in December 2021.
“He performed a key position in shaping right now’s Daimler Truck firm and, as CFO, persistently labored to make sure that the corporate is now extra economically profitable than ever earlier than,” Chief Govt Martin Daum mentioned.
The corporate assertion mentioned Goetz had been distinguished by “his excessive stage of professionalism in addition to his optimistic, hands-on method”.
Joe Kaeser, supervisory board head and former Siemens veteran, mentioned of Goetz: “Only a few days in the past, he convincingly and confidently offered the profitable monetary improvement of ‘his firm’ to the supervisory board.”
Daimler Truck achieved a second quarter file adjusted return on gross sales of 10.3% for its industrial enterprise, the corporate mentioned final Tuesday, even because it confronted rising month-to-month prices from inflation.
Goetz, who had held his present place since July, 2021, leaves a spouse and two youngsters.
(Reporting by Vera Eckert, Modifying by Andrew Cawthorne and Barbara Lewis)