Nicole Melillo Shaw is to step up from her present place as Volvo Automotive UK business operations director to develop 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 excellent workforce to assist the corporate via a important interval of transition. This has included transferring 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 workforce with a broad vary of expertise and talents from totally different sectors, and it has been a privilege to work with them to construct a powerful organisation with a difficult and provoking tradition.”

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

She mentioned: “It has been vastly rewarding to work intently with Kristian through the previous few years – he has made an excellent private contribution to rising our enterprise. I sit up for the challenges and alternatives forward, and persevering with to work with the broader Volvo Automotive UK enterprise and our retailer companions to maintain the patron on the coronary heart of all the things we do.”

Elvefors will go away 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.