MAN Truck & Bus SE has appointed Murat Aksel (50) to the Company’s Executive Board. He will assume responsibility for Procurement from January 01, 2023. As Chief Purchasing Officer of the Volkswagen Group, Murat Aksel has assumed overall responsibility within the Volkswagen Group for the management of materials purchasing and the provision of services since January 2021. In addition, he has been member of the Board of Management responsible for Purchasing at the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand since July 2020.

The new role of Murat Aksel within MAN Truck & Bus

Murat Aksel succeeds Stefan Gramse (46) at MAN Truck & Bus, who has been operationally in charge of the Procurement department at MAN since December 2021 and most recently as Board member.

“Murat Aksel has many years of international experience in procurement. His key task will be to further stabilize our supply chains, which are currently still strained, in the ongoing ramp-up of our truck production and to make them even more sustainable. On behalf of the entire Executive Board, I would like to welcome Murat Aksel to MAN and look forward to working with him in the future,” said Alexander Vlaskamp, Chairman of the Executive Board of MAN Truck & Bus SE.

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