Karin Rådström | |
Birth Date: | 22 February 1979 |
Birth Place: | Södertälje, Sweden |
Spouse: | Daniel Rådström |
Children: | 2 |
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 since February 2021 and has been responsible for the Mercedes-Benz truck brand there since May.
Rådström was born in Södertälje[1] and grew up in Nynäshamn and for seven years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[2] She first studied at Queen's University at Kingston for a year and then as a civil engineer in Industrial Engineering and Sustainability at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and then became a trainee at Scania 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.[1]
During the latter part of the 2000s, Rådström was an elite athlete in rowing, with three years in the national team.[3] [4] She is married to Daniel Rådström and has two children.[2]