His predecessor Thomas Sedran has taken over as Head of Investment Management for Commercial Vehicles and Mechanical Engineering for the Volkswagen Group and reports directly to Gunnar Kilian on the Group Executive Board. Since 2017, Intra has been Chief Human Resources Officer and Industrial Relations Director at MAN, as well as a Member of the Executive Board at Traton, responsible for Human Resources and IT. With his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, he brings extensive experience from the commercial vehicles segment to his new role as CEO at VWN. Sedran holds a doctorate in Economics and has been working at Volkswagen since 2015, prior to which his roles included CEO at Opel. SKODA Thomas Schäfer, formerly CEO at Volkswagen in Africa, took over as CEO at Skoda in August. He takes the reins from Bernhard Maier, who has now moved on after five years in the post. A Mechanical Engineering graduate, Schäfer began his professional career at Daimler back in 1991 before making the move to Volkswagen in 2012. He was originally responsible for overseeing the Group’s foreign production, which involved tasks such as handling negotiations on new production sites. From 2015, Schäfer was Chairman and Managing Director of Volkswagen Group South Africa, where he was responsible for Group Brand Development in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region. GROUP 3 k 360° September 2020 Around 116,000 Volkswagen AG employees have until October 11 to answer the 24 questions in the Mood Barometer and voice their opinions on topics such as cooperation and leadership, information, the workplace, and work processes. “We might be experiencing dicult times right now, but we still want to hear what our employees have to say,” explains Chief Human Resources Ocer Gunnar Kilian. “Here at Volkswagen, we know that we would never be able to achieve our goals as a Group without the full support of our team.” It is so important to take the opportunity to get feedback and drive change.