Pehr G Gyllenhammar

About Pehr G Gyllenhammar

Businessman best known as the CEO of the Volvo motor firm for more than two decades. Later in his career, he ran insurance, financial, and pharmaceutical companies.

Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar is a Swedish businessman. He is mainly known for his 24 years as CEO and chairman of Volvo, between 1970 and 1994. In the early 1980s he took the initiative for the European Round Table of Industrialists. Gyllenhammar lists his current position as Vice Chairman of Rothschild Europe. Gyllenhammar was made Commander of the "Ordre National du Mérite" in France in 1980 and he was made Commander of the Legion of Honour in France in 1987. Gyllenhammar became an Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, London in 2001.

Nationality	Swedish
Employer	Volvo (1970–1993)
Born	Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar, April 28, 1935, Gothenburg, Sweden
Title	CEO of Volvo
Term	1971–1994
Parent(s)	Pehr Gyllenhammar, Aina Gyllenhammar
Alma mater	Lund University
Children	Cecilia (b. 1961), Charlotte (b. 1963), Oscar (b. 1966), Sophie (b. 1969), Daughter (b. 2016)

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Trivia

An unsuccessful merger deal between Volvo and Renault led to his resignation as CEO of Volvo.

Pehr G Gyllenhammar before fame

He took over for his father as head of an insurance company called Skandia a decade after getting his law degree from Lund University.

Achievement of Pehr G Gyllenhammar

He resigned as CEO of Volvo after an unsuccessful merger proposal between Volvo and Renault.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Pehr G Gyllenhammar family life

Oscar is his son, and Cecilia, Charlotte, and Sophie are his daughters from his marriage to Christina Engellau.

Associations of Pehr G Gyllenhammar

Andreas Thorstensson was a businessman from Sweden.

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