Andreas Tetzloff is the brand new president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Canada, efficient Oct. 1, the automaker mentioned Friday.

Tetzloff, 50, succeeds Eva Wiese, 47, who has been appointed managing director of Mercedes-Benz Buyer Options GmbH, in Germany. The unit focuses on the improvement and sale of name unique equipment and collectors’ merchandise. 

Wiese grew to become Mercedes-Benz Canada’s first lady CEO on Feb. 1, 2021.

The automaker’s gross sales rose 2.4 per cent in 2021 beneath Wiese. They have been up one other 7.4 per cent by way of the primary six months of 2022, based on the Automotive Information Analysis and Knowledge Heart.

“Eva’s collaborative strategy has helped handle the enterprise by way of an especially risky setting, together with COVID-19, stock shortages and provide chain issues,” Dimitris Psillakis, CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, mentioned in an announcement. “Eva has additionally established a robust and trusting relationship with our nationwide vendor community.”

Tetzloff will assume total duty for Mercedes-Benz passenger vehicles, Mercedes-AMG and Mercedes-Benz vans in Canada. He’ll lead a nationwide community of 59 licensed dealerships and 250 workers in Canada.

Tetzloff joined Mercedes-Benz AG in 1992. Amongst different positions, he’s been business director of HR and finance on the automaker’s vendor group — Mercedes-Benz Personal Retail — in Frankfurt. He was then gross sales director in Berlin in 2008. 

After serving as managing director of Porsche in Hamburg from 2011-2014, Tetzloff served as managing director at one of many largest dealership teams in Germany from 2015-2019.

He returned to Mercedes-Benz Personal Retail as gross sales director in Rhine-Major, the most important gross sales territory in Germany.

Since March 2022, Tetzloff has been main Mercedes-Benz Russia.

Psillakis touted Tetzloff’s “huge retail and gross sales expertise.”