Alexander Hitzinger new Member of the Board of Management for Technical Development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (FOTO)

Hannover (ots) -

Hitzinger is additionally set to take charge of establishing and
managing the 'Centre for autonomous driving and MaaS* activities'
within the Volkswagen Group

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Alexander Hitzinger (47), previously Senior Director of Hardware
Engineering at Apple Inc. (USA), is the new Member of the Brand Board
of Management for Technical Development at Volkswagen Commercial
Vehicles with immediate effect. He will additionally be in charge of
establishing and managing the 'Centre for autonomous driving and
MaaS* activities' within the Volkswagen Group. The acting Head of
Technical Development to date, Axel Anders (57), is to take on new
responsibilities within the Group.

Dr Thomas Sedran, Chairman of the Brand Board of Management of
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, said: "In Alexander Hitzinger we have
recruited a renowned expert as Member of the Board of Management for
Technical Development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Within our
new brand strategy, he will be implementing our model campaign and
forcefully promoting the expansion of our competencies in the fields
of electric propulsion, software development and autonomous driving.
Furthermore, he will have responsibility within the Group for the
newly established Centre for Autonomous Driving and Mobility as a
Service."

At the same time, Sedran thanked the previous Head of Technical
Development: "Axel Anders took over this assignment provisionally at
a very challenging time and, on the basis of his many years of
experience in the Group, gave the brand important ideas at the right
time. I thank him on behalf of the Board of Management for the work
he has performed. We wish him all the best in his future
assignments."

Alexander Hitzinger is a graduate engineer and also has an MBA
(Master of Business Administration). He started his professional
career in 1997 as a development engineer with Toyota Motorsport in
Germany. From 2000 to 2003, he managed the development department
World Rally Car (WRC) with the British engine manufacturer Cosworth,
where he was in charge of the Formula 1 Development department from
2003 to 2006. During the period from 2006 to 2011, Hitzinger was Head
of Advanced Technologies at Red Bull Technology (UK).

From 2011 until 2016, Hitzinger then worked at Porsche for the Le
Mans World Endurance Championship as Technical Director LMP1. In this
function, he was responsible for the development of the 919 hybrid
long-distance racing car. In 2016, Hitzinger moved to Apple.

*MaaS: MaaS: Mobility-as-a-Service. The key concept behind MaaS is
to concentrate attention on users, people or goods and offer mobility
solutions tailored to individual requirements.

About the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand:

"We offer the best transport solutions for our customers
worldwide." Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) is an independent
brand of the Volkswagen Group and is responsible globally for the
development, construction and sales of light commercial vehicles,
producing the Transporter, Caddy, Crafter and Amarok ranges. In
consultation with its customers, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles draws
up appropriate vehicle concepts, telematics and logistics solutions
for the sparing use of resources at the highest possible level of
efficiency. In 2017, the brand sold around 498,000 light commercial
vehicles, which were produced at its sites in Hannover (D), Poznan
(PL), Wrzesnia (PL) and Pacheco (ARG). VWCV employs over 21,000
people globally, of whom around 14,000 work at the Hannover site.

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Contact:
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
Eric Felber
Head of Communications
Tel: +49 (0)511 798-4762
E-mail: Eric.Felber@volkswagen.de
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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
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Corporate Communications
Tel: +49 (0) 511 798-9228
E-mail: wilhelm.kramer@volkswagen.de
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