Oliver Blume
Internally, the future VW boss was one of the declared opponents of a greatly enlarged group board from the start.
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Under the new CEO Oliver Blume, the entire Volkswagen Group is to become faster and more efficient. That applies all the more to the board of directors, which Blume will reduce by two posts on his first day of work this Thursday. This was confirmed by Wolfsburg group circles to the Handelsblatt. Officially, Volkswagen did not want to comment on the personal details. “No comment,” said a spokesman.
In the future, Blume wants to do without separate board departments for sales and purchasing. Hildegard Wortmann and Murat Aksel must therefore resign from the top management body of the VW Group. Wortmann only took over the sales department on February 1, Aksel has been in charge of group purchasing since the beginning of last year.
Blume’s predecessor Herbert Diess had increased the group’s board of directors to twelve members at the turn of the year. That is an extraordinarily large number of board members compared to other industrial groups.
New VW boss Oliver Blume wants to downsize the Volkswagen board
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