Podcasts about daimler financial services

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No te pierdas nuestro segundo episodio de Expertos en Autobuses, contamos con la presencia de José Antonio Moreno, de Daimler Financial Services México, quien platicó con nosotros de temas relevantes del financiamiento.

About this episodeUrban mobility is changing – fast. From new technologies and new business models, to increasing environmental and regulatory pressure, changing commuter trends, and fast-moving consumer expectations, major issues are influencing the way we get around. Connectivity, automation, and electrification are driving innovation, and shared mobility brings new business models, but we can expect a complete transformation of urban mobility, from what we ride on or in, to where we ride to, why we're riding at all, and how far we need to ride to do whatever it is we're going to do.In this episode, Martin and Jonny talk to two experts in urban mobility about what they see as the key changes changing the shape of urban mobility as we know it. About the guestsLukas Neckermann is Chief Operating Officer of Splyt (https://splyt.com/en/) and Managing Director of Neckermann Strategic Advisors (https://www.neckermann.net). He has over 20 years of leadership experience in automotive, media, and financial services; he's authored three books on the mobility revolution; and he advises companies of all sizes in the fields of smart cities and smart mobility.Malte Ackermann's career in urban mobility has included work as a start-up consultant and product owner, and time spent at Daimler's Moovel/car2go unit, and Daimler Financial Services. Malte is a Professor in Automotive Management: Mobility-as-a-Service at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, and has just published a book on the subject, titled: “Mobility-as-a-Service - The Convergence of Automotive and Mobility Industries.” (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030755898) 

Platicamos con Gerhard Gross Director General de Daimler Financial Services sobre el financiemiento de camiones de carga.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Who can you trust when buying a car? This is a very complex question. Certainly, the easy answer, the one that speaks to our monkey brain, is to seek the counsel of your parents. After all, if they kept you alive for the last 18 years, they have some credibility of knowing what's right, and therefore you trust them implicitly. Another answer would be to trust technology. Examples of trust in technology are visiting websites like Kelly Blue Book, Edmunds, and Truecar, where they've amassed copious amounts of data points to provide you with trusted guidance. Other examples of trust in technology are to use apps. Seventy episodes ago, we discussed an app called AutoGravity which allows you to shop for cars, apply for credit, and know your payment all from  your phone so that there are no surprises when you arrive at the dealership. There is a common thread to these trusted sources. They remain agnostic about your purchase. It is ironic, to some degree, that trust is embedded in sources who don't care about your business versus those who do care about your business. This is the conundrum of automotive dealers where agnostic sources of car buying are trusted more than the dealer. And let's be honest. Both customers and dealers play this game of poker, trying to only disclose tidbits of information so that one player can eventually go all in. Tune in to hear about this crazy game of poker between customers and dealers. Rinaldi Halim is currently serving as Dealer Principal of Los Angeles Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and Managing Partner of Downey Nissan and Nissan of Tustin. Prior to these roles, Mr. Halim served as Executive Manager of Nissan of Duarte and a number of leadership positions with Mossy Automotive Group, San Diego. Mr. Halim is frequently sought by top leadership at Nissan North America and FCA for his insights and operating processes which have afforded him and his dealerships consistent achievement in sales volume and other measures. He holds recognition as Downey Nissan California’s number one Nissan dealer and LACDJR FCA’s fastest growing dealership in CA. Mr. Halim has won five consecutive Nissan Top 50 Global Awards of excellence. Mr. Halim resides in Irvine, CA, with his wife and daughter. Chuck Schofield is vice president of Sales and Dealer Development at AutoGravity. He and his team handle nationwide, dealer-facing engagement, recruitment and customer service. Chuck spent 27 years at Daimler Financial Services and 12 years with Daimler Truck Financial. He has also served as director of Business Vehicle Finance at Chrysler Financial and western region manager for Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. In those roles, he was responsible for managing U.S. finance products and services sales and cultivating and maintaining relationships with Mercedes-Benz, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Ram, Freightliner and Western Star dealership personnel. Chuck has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Mein Name ist Adi Ofek. Ich bin CEO unseres Mercedes-Benz Techcenters in Tel Aviv. Ich kam schon vor fast 19 Jahren zu Daimler – als erste Mitarbeiterin, als wir mit Daimler Financial Services in Israel starteten.

My name is Adi Ofek. I am the CEO of our Mercedes-Benz Tech Hub in Tel Aviv. I joined Daimler almost 19 years ago - employee number 1, when we set up Daimler Financial Services in Israel.

Adi Ofek ist die CEO unseres Mercedes-Benz Tech Hubs in Tel Aviv. Im April 2000 kam sie zu Daimler als erste Mitarbeiterin von Daimler Financial Services in Israel. Im anschluss ging es 2007 für Adi sechs Jahre nach Singapur, wo sie als Regional Credit Operations Director für die Regionen Afrika und Asien/Pazifik zuständig war. Drei weitere Jahre verbrachte sie in Südkorea als CEO von Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. Multinationale Teams zu Top-Leistungen zu bringen ist ihre Leidenschaft.

Adi Ofek is the CEO of our Mercedes-Benz Tech Hub in Tel Aviv. In April 2000 she joined Daimler as the first female employee of Daimler Financial Services in Israel. In 2007 Adi then went to Singapore for six years, where she was Regional Credit Operations Director, and responsible for the Africa and Asia/Pacific regions. She spent three further years in South Korea as CEO of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. Her passion is getting multinational teams to achieve top performance.

Thomas Hungerland is Senior Vice-President at Daimler Financial Services. Currently he lives with his family in Singapore and is responsible for the region South East Asia, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. He began his professional career at Daimler a few decades ago in Germany and later worked as a leader in UK and in France before he took his position in Asia a few years ago. All these stations, he recalls, helped him raise his awareness for cultural differences and for how company cultures evolve. He explains that "Leadership is a contact sport and that every great athlete in the world has a coach". That’s why he has been working with a coach for 20 years now, taking each time a moment to step back and reflect during each new big professional change he was facing. Delegation and trust were one of the first things he learned in his management role but also understanding the meaning and purpose of what we do. He admits, that he likes to be liked and that he attaches a big importance to having a clear and good relationship with people he works with. For him emotional intelligence and communication are key for the success of a leader and for the team. Thomas gives also insights into his expat life, and reflects about the challenges and the chances his international career meant for his family and especially for his children.

Diva Tech Talk hosted Mamatha Chamarthi, SVP, and Chief Digital Officer for ZF Group Inc. (www.zf.com) a worldwide automotive leader, employing 137,000 people in 40 countries, with annual revenue of $43 billion.  Mamatha drives ZF’s digitalization strategy and emergent technologies to transform business models.  Her robust career spans more than two decades beginning in India, where she received her degree in Psychology, Sociology and English, and a masters’ degree in English. “I got married to my childhood best friend,” she said, moving to Bangalore, where she taught English to undergraduate Indian students.   She needed “a more dynamic mission,” and entered Sri Venkateswara University for a second master’s in marketing, with a minor in information systems. Mamatha moved to Michigan where her husband landed his “dream job” at Ford Motor Company (www.ford.com). “I enrolled at Wayne State University for a master’s in computer science” and accepted a job as a consultant at Chrysler, now Fiat Chrysler (www.fcagroup.com).  “That first interview was a phone interview. My 3-month-old baby started crying 10 minutes into the interview! The woman interviewer said: ‘I totally understand; just go take care of the baby first.’  That was my first lesson: being a woman, you should be empathetic to other women.” Mamatha began her Chrysler career as a consultant and “what started as a small client/server application for tracking tax incentive turned into a paperless office for government affairs.”  Mamatha’s insistence on understanding the full breadth of business, not just tech requirements, has been a hallmark of her career, ever since.  She went on to support public relations, and rolled out a global employee Intranet as well as media sites for PR releases and press kits.   Joining as a fulltime employee, as Daimler and Chrysler merged, Mamatha was part of the post-merger integration team.  “No one was looking at a standardized approach to Web technologies,” so she decided to lead the charge. She put together a business plan to streamline efforts, while inaugurating a major internal tech evolution. “I went around the world, selling the business plan” to Daimler Chrysler leaders, and “from scratch, I created a $10 million department supporting global Web technologies.”  From there, Mamatha worked on reinvigorating a project to develop an optimal production planning system which saved approximately $28 million annually. Then she “came to the attention of Sue Unger,” (then the CIO for Daimler Chrysler). Meeting initial resistance to getting sponsorship for another masters’ degree, Mamatha boldly wrote a white paper describing what she had done for Daimler Chrysler and why the company should further invest in her.  Receiving Sue’s blessing, and full corporate support, Mamatha enrolled for her MBA at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/), emphasizing global business.  Mamatha migrated briefly to Daimler Financial Services (the finance arm of the automotive conglomerate), and then was asked to “be the program manager for the separation of Daimler and Chrysler” --- a very sensitive role at a highly disruptive time.  Mamatha considered this a valuable formative period for her.  “It goes back to empathy,” she said.  “There were so many of my colleagues that I was leaving behind in Chrysler. I felt guilty.  But it was an exciting opportunity, too. As Charles Dickens would say: ‘It was the best of times; it was the worst of times’…”.   Mamatha worked directly for Daimler until 2010 and then chose to become the first CIO for Consumers Energy (https://www.consumersenergy.com/), a Michigan publicly traded energy company.  Her first step was to work with leadership, and ensure that “They understand the world is changing.” Mamatha took the senior management team to Silicon Valley to visit with tech companies and then debrief at IDEO (www.ideo.com), a leading global design company creating positive change. “It was a huge ‘ah ha’ moment for the executive team.”  Mamatha considers one of her greatest accomplishments the transformation of the company to a consumer-oriented entity. “Every element of the company was subsequently focused on the customer experience,” she said. Mamata then moved to CIO at TRW Automotive. Within 5 months of her joining, the company was acquired by ZF.  The acquisition completed in January of 2015. In April 2015, she assumed her new role as Chief Digital Officer. Mamatha is passionate about this “because we have a very strong purpose:  Vision Zero --- moving to a world of zero accidents and zero emissions.”  The ZF mission to save lives is accomplished by providing the best in intelligent mechanical systems. “Most ZF processes are from the industrial age.  We need to transform them to the digital age.  Also, we need to start opening up to innovation. That’s the challenge.” In her career, Mamatha’s success-engendering qualities include:  a love of continuous learning; bringing integrated strengths to any challenge; courage; the ability to drive change; empathy; and a clear vision.  She created and maintains her own personal Board of Directors --- mentors who have guided her, and strong sponsors along the way. Mamatha’s key advice for other women aspiring to lead include: be bold, grasp opportunities, don’t think you need to meet every facet of a position in which you are interested, and ensure you have a healthy network.  She also says: “Give back.  Give back as much as you can.”  When meeting challenges: “Believe in yourself. Be comfortable in your shoes.  If I set expectations of how I should be treated, then people will automatically treat me that way.”  And her final note to our audience?  “Never have lunch alone.” For the full blog write up, make sure to check us out on online at www.divatechtalk.com, on Twitter @divatechtalks, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/divatechtalk. Follow our show and tell us what you like with an online review.