Audi Board of Management change: Xavier Ros to succeed Board Member for Human Resources Sabine Maassen

The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AUDI AG, Dr.Herbert Diess, on the Board of Management change: “In the biggest transformation in the company’s history, Group synergies are more important than ever. I’m delighted to welcome Xavier Ros to Audi. With his experience in the Group, he’s well acquainted with technical development and production at Audi, and he’ll provide an international perspective with regard to our personnel transformation. I wish him all the best. I’d like to thank Sabine Maassen on behalf of the Supervisory Board for her valuable work over the last two years, and especially for her outstanding Covid-related crisis management during this period. Despite these circumstances, she significantly advanced the transformation at Audi.”

Peter Mosch, Chairman of the General Works Council and Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AUDI AG: “The simultaneous digital, ecological and electric transformation requires exemplary commitment from the Audi employees. That’s why we, as the employee representation, are focusing on modern, participation-oriented HR work. We want to continue to expand on this. Audi has to remain Audi in the future: a globally successful company with Board-level employee representation in which the people and their collective work are in focus. I’m delighted to work with Xavier Ros, and I thank Sabine Maassen for her work over the last few years.”

Xavier Ros studied mechanical engineering before starting his career in the Production and Logistics division at Audi in 1994. Three years later, the native of Spain took over project management activities on the Audi A8 product line before transferring to SEAT’s Technical Development division in 1999 to advance the third-generation Ibiza. After holding various positions in the General Secretariat starting in 2002, he transferred to SEAT’s Human Resources division as Human Resources Strategy and Development Manager in 2007. From 2013 to 2015, Xavier Ros managed human resources at VW Autoeuropa in Portugal. He has been Board Member for Human Resources and Organization at SEAT since September 2015.

Sabine Maassen has been Board Member for Human Resources and Organization at AUDI AG since April 2020. Before that, she spent four years at ThyssenKrupp, where she took over as Chief Human Resources Officer of the Steel Europe division in 2018. Having studied law, she spent more than ten years on the Executive Board of IG Metall, most recently as the head of the legal department. As an employee representative, she has held various Supervisory Board positions in the automotive industry and has developed a pronounced understanding of the sector. During her time at Audi, she created the structures for a socially sustainable HR transformation within the framework of Audi.Zukunft. The concurrence of personnel movements in terms of downsizing, restructuring and building up is a unique characteristic of Audi that significantly influenced Sabine Maassen. During Covid, Sabine Maassen further expanded the opportunities for a hybrid collaboration culture at Audi.