Hans Dieter Panshi, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Audi AG, thanked Herbert Diss on behalf of the Board of Supervisors: "Mr. Herbert Diss played a key role in promoting the transformation of the Group during his tenure as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Volkswagen Passenger Car Brand Management and Audi AG Management.
The future competitiveness of the Group and its brands will be further enhanced, and their innovation and profitability will be strengthened. In the process of promoting this far-reaching change, Mr. Herbert Diss showed impressive speed and determination. He not only led the company through a challenging period, but also laid an important foundation for the fundamental transformation of the group. "
The Board of Supervisors of the Group pointed out that Herbert Diss put forward many innovative product concepts, redesigned the product mix and established the core development direction of electric travel. Under his leadership, based on the platform strategy, the Group has formulated and implemented a breakthrough development strategy, including the recent development in the fields of batteries and mobile travel services.
Herbert Diss has given the group a new organizational orientation, set up more independent market areas, repositioned senior managers and brand management board members, and launched a new brand portfolio. In addition, the Group paid more attention to the capital market and consolidated its competitiveness in key regions.
During the meeting, the Board of Supervisors of Audi AG also decided that Arno Antlitz, the group's chief financial officer, will also serve as the group's chief operating officer to assist Obomu in daily management.
Obermu was born in Brunswick, and 1994 joined Audi AG. Since then, he has held management positions in Audi, Seat, Volkswagen and Porsche brands. He has been the chairman of Porsche Management Committee since 20 15, and joined Audi ag Management Committee on 20 18.
Hans Dieter Panshi, chairman of the board of supervisors of the group, said that Obomu has demonstrated excellent management skills and strategic vision in different positions of the group and several brands. In the past seven years, he has led Porsche to great success in finance, technology and culture. The Board of Supervisors thinks that he is the right person to lead the Group to further strengthen customer attention and brand and product positioning.
In addition, Obermu will continue to work with the entire management committee of the Group to promote the transformation of the Group based on the leadership culture that teamwork is the top priority.
Later, Herbert Diss also expressed his gratitude to the global colleagues of Volkswagen Group through social media, and also said that after a short break, he would start a new journey in a better state.
It is reported that Herbert Diss's contract was originally scheduled to expire in 2025. Although the contract was terminated early, Volkswagen Group still expressed its gratitude to Herbert Diss through official news. However, it is worth noting that due to actively promoting the electrification transformation of Volkswagen Group and promoting the integration of CARIAD software department, Herbert Diss also had many contradictions with some insiders and trade unions.
As far as electrification transformation is concerned, Herbert Diss has made great contributions to the public. He actively promotes the research and development of software and hardware within the Volkswagen Group, and pays more attention to the integration of pure electric vehicles, autonomous driving technology, intelligent software and interconnection technology in order to compete with new forces of pure electric vehicles such as Tesla and Weilai.
At the product level, Volkswagen Group has launched pure electric vehicles such as ID.3, ID.4, ID.6 CROZZ/X and ID. In recent years, Buzz has expanded its market share in China, the United States and Europe by combining advanced autonomous driving technology and networking capabilities. At the same time, brands such as Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti in the group are actively starting electrification transformation.
In Volkswagen Group, a traditional internal combustion engine automobile manufacturer with a long history, it has faced great resistance to promote electrification transformation and intelligent technology upgrading. During his four-year term, Herbert Diss was dismissed from the position of CEO of Volkswagen brand last fall for proposing to lay off 30,000 people (about 1/4 core employees) and having a huge conflict with the trade union.
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