Effective immediately, Mr Marion will be based in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France and will be responsible for planning and implementing sales strategies that ensure business continuity, managing and leading all business-to-business sales as well as defining core fleet and used cars strategies.

Before joining the premium brand, Mr Marion was corporate sales general manager in Nissan Motor Company, where he had started his career as international fleet sales manager in 2013.

In addition, Stéphane Chauville has been appointed sales operations director and will lead, manage, plan and control sales activities of Infiniti EMEA. He will report directly to François Goupil de Bouillé, vice president of Europe, Middle East and South Africa, and will be based in Rolle, Switzerland.

In his last position, Mr Chauville acted as managing director for Nissan Belgium & Luxembourg. Before that, he worked as a sales general manager for Nissan Central & Eastern Europe.

He replaces Hugues Fabre who will be joining Nissan Europe as corporate sales general manager.

Infiniti also announced that Ulrich Thum will be joining the EMEA headquarters in Rolle as new network development general manager, with a remit to set up, implement and further develop the network strategy of the carmaker in the EMEA region.

Mr Thum replaces Nicolas Tschann, who will take up his new assignment as director Infiniti global lifecycle management, based at Infiniti Global Headquarters in Hong Kong.