BMW Group Middle East announces new Managing Director. - Phil Horton to lead BMW's Regional office as of 1st April 2007.

BMW Group Middle East announces new Managing Director Phil Horton to
lead BMW's Regional office as of 1st April 2007 Dubai - UAE. BMW
Group Middle East announced today the appointment of Mr. Phil Horton to
the position of Managing Director, effective 1st April 2007. Guenther
Seemann, who has been in the Middle East region since January 2004, has
moved to head up BMW Group's subsidiary in Australia. Phil Horton has
spent his entire career in the motor industry. He commenced his career
with BMW Group over ten years ago as the Marketing Director for BMW UK
for seven years. For the past two-and-a-half years he has been the Sales
and Marketing Director for BMW South Africa, a country that has enjoyed
unprecedented growth over the past three years. Phil Horton is married
with one daughter and has already visited Dubai on several occasions
and will be visiting the Middle East regularly before he commences
operations officially on 1st April 2007. - Ends - For more
information please contact: Rana Jones, Corporate Communications
Manager, BMW Group Middle East Tel: +97143132600 (615) direct; Fax
+97143300120 Email: Rana.Jones@bmw.com