Jim Rowan has been named as chief executive and president of Volvo Cars.
Rowan is currently the CEO of Ember Technologies. He was previously CEO of the Dyson Group, and is a former chief operating officer at BlackBerry. He will take up his new role at Volvo on 21 March, when he succeeds current CEO Håkan Samuelsson.
Eric Li, chair of Volvo Cars, commented: “I am very pleased to welcome Jim Rowan as the new CEO of Volvo Cars.
“Volvo Cars is going through a rapid transformation of digitalisation, which is why we wanted to bring in someone with global CEO experience from outside the automotive industry. Jim is the right person to accelerate Volvo Cars into the future.”