BMW Group announces organizational changes

Mexico City, Mexico, March 1, 2016. - In response to the integration of BMW Group in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean under one CEO - Dr. Alexander W. Wehr - BMW Group announces that starting today and after nine years of career in the Company, Elizabeth Solis takes over the position of Director of Corporate Communications for Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, reporting to Alexander Bilgeri, Vice President Corporate Communications for the Americas.

The team headed by Elizabeth Solis is located in Mexico City and integrated by: Juan Bernardo Vázquez-Mellado as Corporate Communication Manager for Latin America, Zolveing Zúñiga as Corporate Communication Chief, Edgar Téllez as Product and Technology Communication Specialist, and Paulina Díaz and Alison Espejel as Corporate Communication Trainees. Based on the future San Luis Potosi plant, Paola Felix has joined the team, acting as the Corporate Communication Manager in that entity.

"This decision underlines once again our commitment to the region. The entire American continent represents one of the main growing markets for BMW Group, with Mexico as the ideal base given the outstanding results by the Company for more than 20 years in the country", said Dr. Alexander Wehr, CEO for BMW Group Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Elizabeth Solís added that “The unification of the area will result in a more robust front to address the information needs required in light of a larger organization, satisfying a diversity of audiences with which we keep contact by diverse communication channels, with particular emphasis on the press from Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, which is naturally one of our main foci”.