Dr. Oliver Blume

It has been an interested couple of months for Volkswagen after the news of a diesel scandal hit. Unless you have been living under a rock you know that the German automaker was running software that figured out when emissions tests were taking place and it would change engine variables to help make the car run cleaner.

The first casualty of the fallout was the VW Group CEO, Martin Winterkorn, who stepped down one day after admitting that 11 million vehicles have the emissions test duping software running. This resulted in the company needing a new CEO and Matthias Mueller from Porsche was brought to the top spot of the parent company.

This left an opening for the Chairman of the Porsche Executive Board and a Supervisory Board has appointed Dr. Oliver Blume to the high profile job. Dr. Blume was already a board member and was responsible for production and logistics.

Under Matthias Mueller Porsche has been a very financially successful part of the VW Group. He now has a huge challenge in dealing with a mess that he inherited and trust us even thought it pays very well we wouldn’t want that job.

In the same respect Oliver Blume will have a challenge, albeit a very different one. For him the challenge will be to continue to grow the Porsche brand and to continue to improve sales figures. Right now the bar is very high and we will see if he can keep it there.