The Supervisory Boardof Daimler AG has nominated Dr. Paul Achleitner as a candidate for membership of the Supervisory Boardrepresenting the shareholders. Achleitner will be available for election at Daimler’s Annual Meeting to be held in Berlin on April 14, 2010. Arnaud Lagardère, a member of the Supervisory Board since 2005, has decided not to stand for reelection.
Dr. Paul Achleitner (born in 1956) has been Member of the Board of Management for Finance of Allianz SE since 2000. Before that, he was a strategic business consultant at Bain & Co. and held various positions at Goldman Sachs in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Investment Banking departments. He became head of Goldman Sachs Germany in 1994.
Achleitner currently holds supervisory board positions at Bayer AG and RWE AG. He is also a member of the Shareholders’ Committee of Henkel KGaA and Chairman of the Stock Exchange Commission of Experts at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance.