Nicole Melillo Shaw is to step up from her present place as Volvo Automotive UK industrial operations director to change into the enterprise’ subsequent managing director.

Melillo Shaw replaces Kristian Elvefors who’s to go away Volvo Automotive UK after 4 years main the corporate.

Elvefors, who’s pursuing a brand new alternative exterior Volvo Vehicles and the automotive trade, took the helm in June 2019, having beforehand led the model’s Swedish operations.

Reflecting on his time at Volvo Automotive UK, he commented: “I’m proud to have labored with an important staff to assist the corporate via a crucial interval of transition. This has included shifting Volvo Vehicles’ first world market from a wholesale to a retail operation, change that we achieved collectively and in alignment with our retailer companions.

“Folks have been key in what we now have completed as a enterprise. I got down to construct a multi-skilled administration staff with a broad vary of expertise and skills from completely different sectors, and it has been a privilege to work with them to construct a robust organisation with a difficult and galvanizing tradition.”

Melillo Shaw joined Volvo Automotive UK in March 2020 as shopper director, bringing together with her 18 years’ expertise in senior advertising roles with worldwide manufacturers. In June 2022 she moved to her present position as industrial operations director.

She mentioned: “It has been vastly rewarding to work carefully with Kristian through the previous few years – he has made an important private contribution to rising our enterprise. I look ahead to the challenges and alternatives forward, and persevering with to work with the broader Volvo Automotive UK enterprise and our retailer companions to maintain the buyer on the coronary heart of the whole lot we do.”

Elvefors will depart the corporate on the finish of the yr, serving to to make sure a clean transition to the brand new management which takes impact in November.