Audi’s unutilized CEO Gernot Doellner is infrequently recognized to the society or even trade insiders are prone to have Googled him nearest it used to be introduced that he’ll substitute Markus Duesmann on Sept. 1
Doellner, 54, is a 30-year veteran of Volkswagen Team and a near worker of VW Team and Porsche CEO Oliver Blume.
Doellner has been sitting at the manage ground of VW Team’s headquarters in Wolfsburg since 2021 when he turned into VW Team’s head of product technique. His workplace used to be inside seeing of Blume’s.
Doellner has had a near dating with Blume for a few years, even if it used to be Herbert Diess, Blume’s predecessor as VW Team CEO who introduced Doellner to VW’s headquarters from Porsche.
Doellner’s function as the crowd’s prominent strategist used to be to determine the product making plans for the approaching years around the manufacturers and, above all, coordinate the automaker’s electrical technique.
Doellner needed to glance a long way into the hour and used to be additionally carefully excited by making plans the manufacturers’ lighthouse initiatives corresponding to VW emblem’s Trinity program for a complicated self-driving automobile.
Doellner is thought of as a conceptual philosopher and as anyone who too can create selections when in unsureness. That is what Duesmann is claimed to have lacked, permitting Audi to sink into lethargy.
Doellner additionally brings revel in in structuring fashion launches from his past at Porsche. Audi urgently wishes this.
The logo is set to inauguration the biggest fashion offensive in its historical past. By means of 2025, 20 unutilized fashions will likely be introduced, ten of them absolutely electrical. Blume is aware of that this will have to achieve success. And he’s depending on Doellner’s experience.
Not like Duesmann who got here from BMW, Doellner is a VW Team insider. He joined the automaker as a doctoral scholar in 1993 and labored his manner up the chief ranks.
