Manu Saale new Head of Research and Development for Daimler

Manu Saale has been appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development in India. Scheduled to take over from the 1st of April 2014, he would be replacing Dr. Jens Cattarius the current Managing Director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development who is said to take on a new role in the R&D centre in Stuttgart/Germany.

“With Manu Saale, being multilingual and Indian-born, we appointed an international expert and global player at the head of MBRDI. We are confident that the transferring of important specific know-how and expertise within Daimler R&D will further solidify MBRDI’s position as a strong player of Daimler’s global RD-network. We are committed to India and underline our confidence to this important growth market for Daimler. I am wishing both Dr. Jens Cattarius and Manu Saale all the best for their new assignments and thank both for their strong contributions and commitment to our company”, commented Prof. Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler, responsible for Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development.

In his address, he also expressed his sincere thanks to Dr. Cattarius for his commitment and achievements within the last three years, where MBRDI anchored itself within Daimler’s global R&D network and steadily grew to become the largest facility outside Germany.

In brief, Manu Saale joined Daimler back in 2011 wherein he worked as the Head of department for Electrical & Electronics Engineering of MBRDI. In July 2013 he got elevated for the new role for which he was provided extensive training within various R&D departments in Stuttgart.