Santosh Iyer is the Managing Director & CEO, Mercedes-Benz India. He has been associated with Mercedes-Benz India since 2009 in various leadership roles. Santosh has over two decades of diverse experience in the Indian automobile industry, spreading across sales, marketing, retail, customer service and corporate affairs.

Prior to being elevated as the MD & CEO, Santosh had been the Vice President, Sales & Marketing. He successfully led Mercedes-Benz’s digital transformation of the business, retaining the market leadership and establishing online sales. He demonstrated remarkable leadership in managing the business and steering it to a profitable growth during the pandemic. Santosh was pivotal in conceptualizing and implementing ‘Retail of the Future’ business model, which is now an industry benchmark.