Axel Harries is as Vice President responsible for Sales Functions for Mercedes-Benz Cars and Product Management Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars since July 2017.
Additionally, he took over the responsibility as Vice President Integrated Program, Sales and Inventory Planning in 2020 within the Production & Supply Chain Management Executive Board.

Axel Harries started his career with Daimler in 1993 and held various management positions, before heading the Marketing- & Portfolio Strategy division from 2003 to 2008.
After that, he became CEO of Mercedes-Benz G GmbH for six years. From 2014 to 2016, he was responsible for Quality Management Mercedes-Benz Cars, before he founded and headed the EVA/CASE division.