Audi Australia’s new chief executive will bring mechanical engineering to the four-ringed big chair.
Taking over from current CEO Bram Schot from April, 2020, incoming successor Markus Diesmann has been announced by Audi AG supervisory board chaiman Herbert Diess.
“As an excellent engineer, Markus Duesmann will do everything in his power to leverage the great potential of the Audi brand and will once again demonstrate the promise of ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’,” Diess says.
Bram Schott departs Audi Australia
Audi AG says Duesmann will be a instrumental in orchestrating the brand’s strategy of “accelerated transformation into a provider of sustainable mobility and the determined decarbonisation of the company.”
Board deputy chairman Peter Mosch says he expects Duesmann, “to ensure stable capacity utilization at the plants and to promote more courage to take the lead through technology.”
Incoming Audi Australia CEO Markus Diesmann
Mosch also complements Schott on his departure, describing him as “The right man at Audi at the right time”.
“In mid-2018, Schot assumed responsibility for the company in a very difficult situation; he started a cultural transformation towards fewer hierarchies, a clear value system and more openness,” Mosch concludes.
