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Nissan Infiniti Unit Names Roland Kruger as President

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By Ma Jie and Yuki Hagiwara

September 10, 2014 at 2:57 AM UTC

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Nissan Motor Co.’s Infiniti premium brand named former Bayerische Motoren Werke AG executive Roland Kruger as president after defections by the Japanese carmaker’s leaders including Andy Palmer.

Kruger, a 48-year-old German national who was a senior vice president at BMW, will be based at Infiniti’s Hong Kong headquarters and report to Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s chief executive officer, the company said in a statement.