Jian has a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Diploma Degree in Business Administration. With his more than 15 years of experience in Supply Chain Management and Procurement, Jian has been working for different multinational automotive and manufacturing companies in different functions and countries (HELLA Group, Liebherr Group, Robert Bosch GmbH). At the meantime Jian is a certified Senior Project Manager according to International Project Management Association and used his professional project management expertise as a senior project manager in his management consulting career in cooperation with Top 500 Forbes Global companies. Jian has deep knowledge in global end-to-end supply chain and procurement management. Currently he is leading the HELLA corporate supply chain risk management team with the target to set up an end-to-end supply chain risk management process by implementation of new technologies across different business functions (Procurement, Logistics, Operations, Sales) worldwide.

Lars Bäumann recently played a lead role in defining and shaping digital strategies for corporate IT processes across global Volkswagen passenger car operations. He worked and lived in Germany, Slovak Republic and Mexico over the last 40 years and has held a variety of roles across the carmaker in areas IT and Operations. Lars also is a long-time member of Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL), the German Logistics Association, where he has helped oversee scientific logistics projects. Since he now lives again in Mexico he was appointed in 2020 as BVL Representative for Mexico.

Bo Andersson is President and CEO of Yazaki North and Central America and President of Yazaki Europe and Africa. He is responsible for driving the short and long-range strategic vision for the company. Prior to joining Yazaki in 2017, Andersson served as the President of JSC AvtoVAZ, the largest car manufacturer in Russia and spent 21 years with General Motors rising to the role of Group VP of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain. A graduate of Sweden’s Military Academy, he holds degrees in business from Stockholm University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Danny Auerswald is a graduate industrial engineer (TU Dresden) and started his career in 2013 - after five years at Volkswagen Consulting - in various functions in production and logistics at Volkswagen. For three and a half years he was an executive assistant to Volkswagen Group and brand board members. In August 2016, Auerswald took over as plant manager at the Pekan site in Malaysia. In parallel, he was Director of Volkswagen Group Malaysia. After four years in Pekan, he took over responsibility for the Transparent Factory in Dresden on August 1, 2020. This is where the e-Golf is currently being manufactured and where the all-electric ID.3 will be produced from 2021 onwards.

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Axel joined Ford Werke in 2000 and has held a variety of positions within the organisation; two years as a graduate trainee in job rotation followed by three years as a logistics engineer. He moved to Ford’s Saarlouis plant in 2005 working as its Supply Chain Manager/External Logistics Coordinator. Axel returned to Cologne in 2008 to his current position of Carline Supervisor MF&PE. He is currently involved in major launches at Ford’s Valencia (Spain) plant. Axel holds a BSc Logistics Management from Venlo, Netherlands in 1998 and a MSc International Logistics from Plymouth, UK in 1999.

Robert, born in Berlin, Germany, is the Chairman of Odette International and Head of the VDA Production and Logistics Department. Robert has over 17 years of experience in the automotive Industry including nine years for Volkswagen AG and 5 years for the BLG Logistics Group, with international experience in China, South Africa and the United States. He has a degree/Diplom in Business Administration from the Free University of Berlin.