Roland Matthias Christian Kruegeris businessman and Industrial designer, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Dyson Group of Companies and member of the Board of Dyson Holdings.
Career
He started his career as an automotive designer at Mitsubishi Motors prior to being selected as an initial team member of the smart car (a joint venture between Swatch and Mercedes-Benz), designing the interior of the first smart car from 1994 to 1997. He moved from Design to Management after receiving a Master’s Degree in Business (MBA), from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France in 1998. In 2020 he was appointed CEO of Dyson and Member of the Board of Dyson Holdings after joining the company one year earlier. Before joining Dyson, he was chairman and global president of Infiniti Motor Company (the luxury brand of Nissan) and corporate officer of Nissan Motor Corporation (ISIN JP36724000003) from 2015 to 2019. Prior to leading Infiniti he spent 15 years at the BMW Group (ISIN DE00051900003) in various senior executive positions globally rising to Senior Vice President of the company.
Exploration
He is the first German national to ski to the geographic South Pole solo across the Antarctic continent in 2013, and can be considered to be one of the most experienced living German polar explorers, having skied to the geographic south pole twice unsupported (in 2013 solo and in 2005 with an international expedition) and having crossed the Greenland Ice Shield on skis in 2002. He was inducted into the prestigious Explorers Club in New York/USA in 2017 due to his achievements in polar exploration. He regularly gives lectures about his expedition experiences and has written a book about his Antarctic Expeditions; English: “Solo to the South Pole” ISBN: 978-3-00-059343-7; German: “ALLEIN ZUM SUEDPOL” ISBN: 978-3-00-058867-9.
