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New appointment strengthens Scania digital transformation

Robert Barry · 0 comments

Scania is appointing Mikael Cato to the position of chief digital officer effective May 15, 2017, reporting president and chief executive officer Henrik Henriksson.

Henriksson says Cato’s role as the chief digital officer is to develop, accelerate, and coordinate Scania’s digital transformation which is becoming one of the truck brand’s primary processes.

“The digitalisation of Scania is delivering results and will be a success factor in our efforts to make continuous improvements in all areas of our business,” says Henriksson.

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Cato worked at the management and ITconsulting company Acando since 2014, where he a member of the Group Management team as head of Area Digital.

Since 1998, he has held various management positions in digital business development and technology at Connecta, Valtech and Cybercom.

“I am looking forward to the assignment. It will be very exciting to work with digitalisation at Scania, which operates in an industry characterised by significant change and where digitalisation is a vital issue,” says Cato.

Robert Barry

Robert Barry has been reporting on the Australasian automotive and transport sector since June 2003. A member of the New Zealand Motoring Writers Guild since 2005, Robert has also previously held the positions of secretary, vice-president and president. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and on the web. He holds a Class 2 and a Class 4 heavy transport licence and knows his way around a manual transmission.

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