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Hans joined as a director in 2006 and has 32 years experience in the automotive industry. He started his career with SAAB-SCANIA 1974 as a body-engineer and then held a number of positions within R&D and manufacturing engineering. After 18 years at Saab, Hans became Director for Research and Development at Skoda/VW in Mlada Boleslav Czechoslavakia. He led the first phase of product integration with the VW Group, including the development of the first generation Octavia based on the VW A4-platform.In 1995 Hans joined Volvo Trucks as Senior Vice President R&D, Purchasing and Quality and from 2000 was Senior Vice President for R&D at Volvo Cars, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Hans finished his career as Senior Project Leader, Hybrid Technology for Ford's European brands. Hans has a licentiate of engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. | 