Personnel changes at the BMW Group

Munich. The BMW Group realigned its Board of Management structures in April to maintain the company’s successful course in the future. Following on this, experienced managers will assume new responsibilities within the sales network and motorcycles division, effective 1 June 2012.

Graeme Grieve (50) will be responsible for MINI Sales. Grieve was previously in charge of importer markets in the Africa, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia, Pacific and Middle East regions. He will be succeeded as Head of Importer Markets in these regions by Guenther Seemann (53), who was previously responsible for the Asia, Oceania and South Africa sales region.

Hendrik von Kuenheim (52), currently Head of BMW Motorrad, will take over from Seemann and manage the BMW Automobiles business in the Asia, Oceania and South Africa region. His successor as head of the motorcycles division will be Stephan Schaller (54), who will join the BMW Group on 1 June.

Schaller previously worked for the BMW Group from 1981 to 1999. The mechanical engineer began his career as a trainee in what was then the “Technology” division. He has held various management positions over the course of his career, including Head of Production at the BMW Plant Rosslyn (South Africa). Schaller was most recently Vice Chairman of the Board of Management of Schott AG, Mainz.