CAN Mezzanine, which specialises in providing office space to the third sector, recently appointed Gary Phillips as its first head of sales. The post that was created to develop new sales initiatives and increase occupancy at the award-winning social enterprise’s newest building in East Road, London N1.

The appropriately named Charles Peugeot is to take over as UK sales director at Citroën from 1 August. He will be based at Citroën UK’s Headquarters in Slough.

The head of Volvo is to lead Ford in Europe said the global automotive giant on 15 July as it announced a series of key executive appointments designed to sharpen its senior leadership team’s focus on the ‘One Ford’ plan and to support the company’s growth around the world.

Filmology, the UK’s first dedicated movie marketing and promotions company, has appointed Sarah Nicholson as account manager.

After nearly four years at the helm and following previous roles as managing director, South Africa and marketing director, France, Roland Bouchara steps down as boss of Renault UK on 1 July. The move follows his promotion to the post of sales vice-president, Europe market area (G4 countries – Germany, Italy, Spain and UK).

Sales and marketing specialist Jean-Pierre Diernaz, 41, is taking over from Bastien Schupp as marketing director of Nissan’s luxury marque Infiniti in the AMIE (Africa, Middle East, India and Europe) region. Schupp becomes country director Austria, based in Vienna and reporting to managing director Nissan Cars Europe, Andreas Gabriel.

Mazda Motor Europe is expanding its pan-European fleet focus as the manufacturer looks to win cross-market corporate sales and increase business-sector penetration in a string of individual countries.

Simon Monks, who has more than 12 years experience in fleet and aftersales in the UK and across Europe, has joined Mazda's European fleet operations team as manager, international corporate sales. ModernSelling.com understands that a second international corporate sales manager will be appointed shortly.

Monks began his fleet industry career with Nissan Motor GB in 1998 before moving to Toyota GB in 2000 and Brussels-based Toyota Motors Europe in 2005. During that time he was European key account manager responsible for major leasing company business and end-user relationships, and also aftersales country manager for Germany, Switzerland and export markets. He returned briefly to Toyota GB in 2009 as direct marketing manager before joining Mazda Motor Europe.

Gary Savage is to take over from Dermot Kelly as managing director of Mercedes-Benz Cars at the end of June 2010. Kelly is retiring.

Martin Benders is Mazda’s new vice-president for European sales operations, Mazda Motor Europe has announced. Taking up his new role today (25 May), the sales and marketing specialist reports to chief operating officer Philip J Waring.

Mike Whittington, who joined the company three years ago, is to become the new sales director of Mercedes-Benz UK on 1 June 2010.