Andreas Walingen studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. In 2001 he joined Porsche AG in the project purchasing department for sports cars and in 2007 became Head of Procurement Electronics. In 2007 he took on the role of project manager in Corporate Strategy at Porsche AG and subsequently transferred to Porsche Automobil Holding SE, where his role focused on realizing synergies between Porsche and Volkswagen. Between 2012 and 2018, he held management positions at Porsche in the areas of Strategy and Organizational Development, Product Management and End-to-End Electronics Architecture E³. In 2019, he transferred to Volkswagen as head of Group Product Strategy, where he played a leading role in driving the transformation of the portfolio to electromobility, the focus on synergy families and the launch of the Scalable Systems Platform (SSP).