Volvo names new NA president

Updated Sep 11, 2012
Goran NybergGoran Nyberg

Volvo Trucks today announced that effective Oct. 1, 2012, Göran Nyberg has been appointed president of North American Sales & Marketing.  In this role, Nyberg will be responsible for all of the Volvo brand’s commercial truck activities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Nyberg has more than 20 years of industry experience and has been with the Volvo Group since 2003.  He has served in several senior management, distribution and sales positions around the world, and was most recently the managing director for Volvo Group UK Limited, the Volvo Trucks sales & marketing division in the United Kingdom.  Nyberg will be based at the company’s North American headquarters in Greensboro, N.C.

Nyberg will report to Dennis Slagle, Volvo Group executive vice president for Trucks Sales & Marketing Americas.  He succeeds Ron Huibers, who was recently appointed president of Volvo Penta Americas.

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