Hiltrud Werner (49) takes over as Head of Volkswagen Group Auditing effective January 1, 2016. In this function, she reports to the CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Matthias Müller. Until she takes up her new post Markus-Christian Eberl, Head of Internal Auditing at Porsche, will continue to lead Volkswagen Group Auditing. The engineering graduate took over as head of the Group function in a temporary capacity in October in addition to his responsibilities at Porsche, restructuring process auditing relating to the current issues and bringing this project to a successful close.
Hiltrud Werner is an economics graduate; before moving to the Volkswagen Group she held the post of Chief Audit Executive at ZF Friedrichshafen AG. After graduating, she began her career in 1991 as a project manager for process optimization at Softlab GmbH. She moved to BMW AG in 1996, where she held the post of Head of Financial Services in the Corporate Audit function. She became Senior Vice President Corporate Audit at MAN SE in 2011, and moved to ZF Friedrichshafen in 2014.
The CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Matthias Müller, thanked Eberl: “Markus-Christian Eberl implemented process auditing systematically and with great technical competence. We would like to thank him for his outstanding work and for bringing this project to a successful conclusion.”