AUDI AG announced Oliver Hoffmann will head the company’s Technical Development. At its meeting held February 24, 2021, the supervisory board appointed the division's current Chief Operating Officer to the board of management of the company, effective March 1, 2021. CEO Markus Duesmann has been realigning Technical Development, fulfilling two roles since mid-June 2020 and placing a particular focus on process quality. Hoffmann has already played a key role in this process for the past nine months. The new Head of Development will be able to hit the ground running in March. Hoffmann is a familiar face and leader to the company’s ten thousand-strong development team. In recent months, he has reorganized the structure of his division and has devoted himself with passion to establishing the new corporate culture alongside running the operating business of automotive development. Oliver Hoffmann has evidenced his technical expertise in quality assurance at Lamborghini, in Neckarsulm, Germany, and at the engine plant in Gyor, Hungary. Having spent several years heading Powertrain Development in Gyor and later in Ingolstadt, he joined Audi Sport in 2017 as Head of Technical Development, where he was appointed Managing Director in 2018. The year 2019 saw Hoffmann take on two further management roles: Head of Technical Development at the Neckarsulm site and Head of Powertrain Development at the company. Since June 2020, he has been Chief Operating Officer in the Technical Development.