Mr Wertans will be in charge of: Commercial Strategy, Sales, Aftersales, Customer and Corporate Sales Divisions. He will be member of the Renault Management Committee and will report to Jérôme Stoll, chief performance officer and EVP, sales and marketing.

Mr Wertans is a graduate Engineer from Supélec, Paris, and started at Ford of Europe in 1994 before holding various sales and marketing functions in France, the UK, Germany and Switzerland where he was the managing director for Ford.

In 2005 he joined BMW AG in Münich as vice-president for corporate and direct sales and then headed BMW Group in France as chairman and CEO. In 2009 he joined PSA to lead international sales and then was promoted head of the Peugeot brand for the group before being appointed group vice-president Asia. He subsequently co-founded a retail automotive group, MAG, which he led and developed in Germany and France.