{"id":267978,"date":"2025-03-31T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T08:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=267978"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:54:45","slug":"la-junta-directiva-de-volvos-destituye-al-consejero-delegado-rowan-y-trae-de-vuelta-a-samuelsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2025\/03\/31\/volvos-board-of-directors-dismisses-ceo-rowan-and-brings-samuelsson-back\/","title":{"rendered":"El consejo de administraci\u00f3n de Volvo destituye al CEO Rowan y trae de vuelta a Samuelsson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Samuelsson is referred to as interim CEO in a statement presented by Volvo on Sunday and will take up the post immediately. The driving force behind the change in management is Chinese shareholder Geely, the German Automobilwoche<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowan’s dismissal comes just three years after his appointment in January 2022. The British national took the top job shortly after Volvo’s IPO on the Stockholm stock exchange and led the company through several extremely successful years. The change at the top took many in the company by surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the statement, the return of H\u00e5kan Samuelsson ‘ensures stability while preparing to appoint a long-term successor.’ Samuelsson has been a member of the board since 2010 and was CEO of Volvo from 2012 to 2022. He then served as chairman of Polestar until 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volvo has only hinted at the reasons for the appointment, stating it is a \u2018pivotal time\u2019 for both Volvo Cars and the automotive industry as a whole. “With fast-moving technological shifts, growing geopolitical complexity, and intensifying competition across regions, the Board believes the company is best served by leadership with deep industrial experience, deep knowledge of our group, and a proven ability to execute in challenging environments,” the statement reads. It seems that the board of directors no longer trusted the existing CEO to fulfil this task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Automobilwoche<\/em>, the driving force behind the change of management is said to be Eric Li (Li Shufu), Geely CEO and chairman of the supervisory board at Volvo Cars. In his statement on the personnel change, he praises Samuelsson accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are very pleased to welcome H\u00e5kan Samuelsson back as CEO,\u201d said Li. \u201cH\u00e5kan led Volvo Cars through one of its most transformative and value-creating decades.” Samuelsson is said to bring ‘a rare combination of “industrial depth, strategic clarity, and proven leadership.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As the industry enters an even more complex phase, we believe his experience and steady hand are exactly what is needed to strengthen Volvo Cars\u2019 global position and unlock its next wave of potential,\u201d Li continued.<\/p>\n\n\n

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H\u00e5kan Samuelsson himself commented: \u201cThe car industry is under pressure from many directions. I\u2019m honoured to return at such a defining moment for Volvo Cars. I have deep respect for the challenges ahead and look forward to working with our talented team to sharpen our competitiveness, meet the demands of key markets, and accelerate strategic execution and focus on leadership development.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li thanked Jim Rowan as usual in such changes: \u201cHis leadership over the past three years has accelerated Volvo Cars\u2019 transition into a software-led, connected car company. [\u2026] We look forward to building on this foundation with renewed focus and industrial momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volvo Cars had recently warned that 2025 would be a highly competitive year in which it might be difficult to match the sales figures and profitability of 2024. The US tariffs are one of the reasons for this, as the United States is Volvo’s largest single market. Rowan had said earlier this month<\/a> that Volvo thus considered moving parts of its production to the US. The now-dismissed Volvo boss said that the company’s assembly plant had sufficient capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

investors.volvocars.com<\/a>, automobilwoche.de<\/a> (in German), reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

En un comunicado presentado por Volvo el domingo, se hace referencia a Samuelsson como CEO interino, que asumir\u00e1 el cargo inmediatamente. El impulsor de la<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":267979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930,28937],"tags":[13591,222,2871,24851,10591,572],"class_list":["post-267978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","category-people","tag-career","tag-geely","tag-hakan-samuelsson","tag-jim-rowan","tag-li-shufu","tag-volvo"],"acf":{"post_article-format":{"value":"standard","label":"Standard"},"post_categories":[9930,28937],"post_tags":[572,24851,2871,10591,222,13591],"post_thumbnail":267979,"post_thumbnail_listing":false,"post_thumbnail-caption":"","post_teaser-text":"Volvo Cars' board of directors has decided to dismiss CEO Jim Rowan \u2013 and at the same time bring back former longtime CEO Hakan Samuelsson to head the company. The 74-year-old will hold the position for two years until a long-term successor is found.","post_advert":false,"post_legacy":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268068,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267978\/revisions\/268068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}