Volvo Cars has appointed Carla De Geyseleer as its new chief financial officer (CFO), succeeding Hans Oscarsson who will leave the company as of August 1 for a new assignment within the Geely Group.
Ms De Geyseleer (51) is a Belgian national and joins Volvo Cars from Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), a Swiss-based publicly listed company specialised in testing, inspection and certification services, where she has been group CFO since 2014. She will take up her position with Volvo Cars as of October 1.
“I am very pleased to welcome Carla to Volvo Cars,” said Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive. “She brings a wealth of financial experience from a range of different industries and I am confident that she will prove to be a great addition to our executive team. I would also like to thank Hans for his almost 30 years of service to Volvo Cars and wish him all the best in his next assignment.”
Prior to her role at SGS, Ms De Geyseleer was CFO at telecom firm Vodafone Libertel in the Netherlands and worked for 15 years at the logistics company DHL Express where she held growing responsibilities in various operational and corporate positions in multiple countries. Initially she started her career as an auditor with accountancy firm EY Belgium.
She holds an executive MBA from the IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland and a Master’s degree in Economic & Financial Sciences from the Economische Hoge School Sint Aloysius (EHSAL) in Brussels, Belgium.
Commenting on her appointment, Ms De Geyseleer said: “I look forward to joining this successful company to create value through progressing the transformation, steering towards sustainable and profitable growth and driving engagement within the company.”
Hans Oscarsson will from August 1 take up a new position as chief executive officer of Geely Sweden Holding AB, the company responsible for the Geely Group’s investments in the Nordic region. He leaves Volvo Cars after 29 years of service, first joining the company in 1990. He was appointed CFO in 2013.
To bridge the period until Ms De Geyseleer’s arrival at Volvo Cars, the company has appointed Per Ansgar, vice president group reporting and controlling, as interim head of the Finance department to oversee the day-to-day operations.
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Volvo Car Group in 2018
Voor het boekjaar 2018 liet Volvo Car Group een bedrijfswinst optekenen van 14.185 miljoen SEK (14.061 miljoen SEK in 2017). De omzet voor dit boekjaar bedroeg 252.653 miljoen SEK (208.646 miljoen SEK). In 2018 verkocht Volvo Car Group wereldwijd 642.253 auto's, ofwel 12,4% meer dan in 2017 (571.577). De resultaten accentueren de uitgebreide transformatie van Volvo Cars’ financiën en activiteiten gedurende de voorbije jaren en stuwen het bedrijf in de richting van de volgende groeifase.
Over Volvo Car Group
Volvo Cars is opgericht in 1927. Vandaag is het bedrijf een van de bekendste en meest gerespecteerde premium automerken ter wereld. In 2018 werden 642.253 Volvo's verkocht in ongeveer 100 landen. Volvo Cars is sinds 2010 eigendom van de Chinese Zhejiang Geely Holding.
In 2018 telde Volvo Cars ongeveer 43.000 (39.500) voltijdse werknemers. De hoofdzetel, productontwikkeling, marketing en administratie van Volvo Cars zijn hoofdzakelijk gevestigd in Göteborg, Zweden. De hoofdzetel van Volvo Cars in China is gevestigd in Shanghai. De grootste autofabrieken van het bedrijf zijn gevestigd in Göteborg (Zweden), Gent (België), South Carolina (VS), Chengdu en Daqing (China), terwijl de motoren worden gemaakt in Skövde (Zweden) en Zhangjiakou (China) en de carrosserieonderdelen in Olofström (Zweden).
