half A year after the arrest of Rupert Stadler, Audi has appointed the Dutchman Bram Schot as new CEO. The previous Board member for sales going to his new Post on 1. January 2019 to compete, shared the VW-daughter on Wednesday in Ingolstadt, Germany. The 57-year-old Sheet had conducted the business of the car manufacturer since June, Commissioner. Stadler was eliminated in October from all public Offices.
“As acting CEO, has done a Bram Schot in the past few months already compelling work,” said VW group boss Herbert Diess. “He is driving the cultural change in his team and the current challenges with flying colors.”
Audi works Council chief Peter Mosch praised the future Chairman of the Board: “In his interim period, he has already shown that he can give to our requested and initiated restart a lot of momentum.” At the same time, the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board claimed: “This is the path he must follow now and Audi back to the top. The expected of the workforce.“
BMW Board of management Markus Duesmann is not free
Actually, had applied BMW-purchasing Director Markus Duesmann as a candidate in the VW group bosses and Audi Chairman of the Supervisory Board Diess for the boss’s chair in Ingolstadt. VW had poached the Manager in July in Munich. But BMW’s not yet free, and Duesmann is still tied up for two years contract.
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been A year long transition solution at the top with the double – load for Sheet – which was still sales Executive-would be for Audi unsustainable. Because the company must now set the course for a billion-dollar investment in the technologies of the future and decide what cars will be built in the next five years, where. In the case of the admission of its models to the new Emission standards WLTP Audi lags behind, the sales in Europe slumped. And also with the consequences of the diesel scandal, the Management has done well.
Sheet, it is only since 2017 at Audi
Sheet has made Audi a lightning career, it is Only since September of 2017, he is a member of the Board of management in Ingolstadt. Prior to that, he was for five years head of sales for VW commercial vehicles. In Rotterdam born, had the low countries in the UK, economic studies, at the ABN-Amro-Bank and then long at Daimler worked. As Italy-the chief of the Stuttgart-based car and truck manufacturer car moved Schot in 2011 for the VW group.
He had large support in the workforce, it said in business circles. In October, as VW and Audi, Stadler’s contract had finished, said Sheet of the “Manager magazine”: “I would be ready for the long term as Audi chief and had also a great desire.”
He takes part in June as a guest also in the deliberations of the VW group Board of management. Whether he is soon to be a member, is open. Stadler in 2007, Audi became a Chef and three years later, in the VW group Board of management moved up. Sheet remains provisional Board member for sales and Marketing.
Also, the development chief, Hans-Joachim Rothenpieler, is quite new in the office. He came at the 1. November from VW to Audi, because his predecessor, Peter Mertens had to stop due to severe illness.
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Audi released has in Ingolstadt, 44 000, in württemberg, Neckarsulm, 17 000 employees. (dpa)