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DaimlerChrysler Global Communications Staff Continues to Accelerate

16 April 1999

DaimlerChrysler Global Communications Staff Continues to Accelerate

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich. and STUTTGART, Germany, April 16 --
DaimlerChrysler , the global automotive, transportation products
and services company, announces key appointments to its communication
organization.  All appointments are effective immediately.
    Rita M. McKay is appointed to Director, Internal Communications - Auburn
Hills.  McKay will be responsible for coordinating all internal communications
activities associated with the DaimlerChrysler North American region.  Prior
to this appointment, McKay was Director, Corporate Services.
    McKay joined Chrysler Corporation in 1987, from American Motors
Corporation, and has been instrumental in molding and building public
relations and communications activities on both the corporate and brand
platforms.
    She will report directly to Christoph Walther, Senior Vice President and
head of global communications for DaimlerChrysler.
    Terri L. Houtman is promoted to Director, Communications Strategy.
Houtman, who will be based in Auburn Hills, Mich., has broad-based experience
in a host of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep(R) and Plymouth communications disciplines
and has been instrumental in the development of new communications strategies
for DaimlerChrysler on a global level.  Prior to this appointment, she was
Senior Manager, Communications Strategy.  Houtman also will report directly to
Christoph Walther.
    Karlheinz L. Knoss is named Senior Manager, Automotive Business
Affairs/Commercial Vehicles.  In this position, Knoss will provide further
focus on DaimlerChrysler's tremendous commercial vehicles division -- the
industry's global leader in heavy and medium trucks and buses.  Knoss joins
DaimlerChrysler from General Motors (GM), where he served as head of
communications for Saab Germany.  He will report to Roland Klein, Vice
President Corporate Communications and be based in Stuttgart.
    Han Tjan is appointed Senior Vice President and head of communications for
Adtranz, the world's largest rail systems company.  Adtranz is a 100%
subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, with sales revenues of 3,3 Mrd. Euro and 23,600
employees.
    Prior to his new position, Tjan served as Vice President for
Communications and Public Affairs of Chrysler Asia, based in Singapore.
    With experience of more than 20 years in global automotive communications,
marketing and public affairs, he speaks English, Indonesian, Dutch, German and
French fluently.
    Han Tjan, who is also responsible for Public Affairs and Governmental
Relations, will be based in Berlin and report directly to Rolf Eckrodt, CEO of
Adtranz.
    This latest announcement comes as DaimlerChrysler continues to further
structure its blueprint for the industry's first global communications
organization leading into the 21st century.