The Gentleman Magazine Issue 18 | December 2019 | Page 47

Dirk Große-Loheide (55) is responsible for procurement
at the Volkswagen brand. A graduate in economics, he has
worked at the Volkswagen Group for the past 28 years. He has
exceptional knowledge of the industry and great procurement
experience. Große-Loheide will take over Board of
Management responsibility for Procurement and IT on April 1
from Dr. Bernd Martens (53), who introduced the mandatory
sustainability rating for suppliers at Audi, the first car brand
to do so.
In this way, the premium brand makes sure that environmental,
social and governance criteria are applied also in the upstream
value chain. This sustainability rating is to become an industry
standard.
Dr. Arno Antlitz (49) has played a major role at Volkswagen
Cars in the development and implementation of the future
pact and the turnaround plans in the regions. This has created
the financial strength required for the Volkswagen brand to
systematically initiate its electric strategy. After two and a half
years in Ingolstadt, Alexander Seitz (57), the current Member
of the Board of Management of AUDI AG for Finance, China
and Legal Affairs, will take over the position of his successor
Dr. Antlitz in Wolfsburg on March 1, 2020.
With the Audi Transformation Plan (ATP), he has created
the right conditions and financial basis to strategically realign
the company and secure its future. The ATP has a volume
of 15 billion euros and is designed to improve earnings on a
sustainable basis.
Dr. Sabine Maaßen (53) has been at Thyssenkrupp since 2016
and has been Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) there
with responsibility for the Steel Europe business area since
2018. Previously, the doctor of law and trade unionist of many
years’ standing was legal counsel on the board of the IG Metall
trade union. As an employee representative, she has already
held several supervisory board positions in the automotive
industry, in which she has developed a deep understanding of
the sector.
Dr. Maaßen will take over Board of Management responsibility
for Human Resources from Wendelin Göbel (56) on April 1.
Göbel joined Audi in 1987 and has worked for the Volkswagen
Group in various positions for more than three decades, since
2017 as Member of the Board of Management for Human
Resources and Organization. In the past two and a half years,
Göbel has made the human resources division of the Four
Rings fit for the future and has initiated decisive steps for the
transformation of the company.
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