Frank-Steffen Walliser is leaving his submit at Porsche to tackle the place of chairman and CEO of Bentley from July 1.
Mr Walliser is an skilled engineer, having taken over administration of Porsche’s 911 and 718 product strains in 2019, and later being put answerable for general car growth in 2022.
He’ll be taking up from Adrian Hallmark, who departed Bentley to grow to be the CEO of Aston Martin earlier this 12 months.
After finding out mechanical engineering with a give attention to combustion engines and expertise administration, Mr Walliser joined Porsche in 1995 the place he has remained ever since.
In 2010 he turned the general venture chief accountable for the event of the Porsche 918 hypercar, adopted by a transfer to grow to be the model’s head of motorsport in 2014.
Mr Walliser stated he’s eager to tackle new challenges at Bentley, and anticipated the model would proceed to set requirements for luxurious automobiles sooner or later.
“I’m approaching this job with nice respect and searching ahead to having a group in Crewe that has proven spectacular efficiency over the previous couple of years,” Mr Walliser stated.
“The persevering with transformation of the automotive trade can be a significant job for Bentley as properly, a job that I’m completely happy to tackle with this group.”
Bentley and Porsche are each below the broader Volkswagen Group umbrella, and their collaborations have included sharing the MSB platform that underpins particular person fashions like Porsche’s Panamera and Bentley’s Continental and Flying Spur.
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Volkswagen Group Board of Administration member Gernot Döllner, who heads the Model Group Progressive that features Bentley, Audi, and Lamborghini, stated the British luxurious producer was lucky to be gaining the companies of an skilled engineer like Mr Walliser.
“On Bentley’s ongoing path towards changing into the main supplier within the luxurious phase, Frank-Steffen Walliser’s a few years of expertise and information of the luxurious phase can be invaluable,” he stated.
Bentley is busy on the trail to electrification, rolling out plug-in hybrids forward of plans to go electric-only by 2033. It’ll reveal its first electrical car (EV) in the direction of the top of 2026.
The model had beforehand deliberate to go EV-only by 2030, however outgoing CEO Adrian Hallmark blamed technical points and never slowing EV demand for the delay.
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