New Delhi: HARMAN Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. has named Christian Sobottka as President of the Automotive Division, efficient January 1, 2021.
He may also be appointed to HARMAN’s Senior Management Committee and can report back to President and Chief Govt Officer, Michael Mauser. Sobottka might be based mostly out of the corporate’s places of work in Garching, Germany.
Sobottka has over 20 years of worldwide expertise within the automotive trade. Previous to his latest accountability as CEO and CTO of Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH, he held management roles throughout quite a lot of departments, together with engineering, gross sales, advertising and marketing and operations inside Bosch and its portfolio of corporations.
Michael Mauser commented, “As a transformative trade veteran, Christian has nice expertise in delivering unbelievable outcomes, driving enterprise development and managing key Tier-1 buyer and accomplice relationships. As Christian assumes the accountability of our related automotive, automotive audio, and related car companies groups, I’m assured he’ll make them higher success as we push ahead in our imaginative and prescient to reinforce mobility experiences for every person.”
“HARMAN’s market domination and development within the automotive area is a testomony to the outstanding imaginative and prescient, dedication and innovation of its management and groups all over the world,” mentioned Sobottka.
He additional added, “I’ve lengthy admired and absolutely share the corporate’s strategic concentrate on creating applied sciences and significant collaborations that enhance in-car experiences for drivers and passengers. I’m trying ahead to attending to work and main HARMAN’s automotive enterprise to newer heights because the trade continues its shift from RPM to EPM or ‘Experiences Per Mile.’”
Sobottka holds a Dipl.-Ing in Electrical Engineering from the Technische Universität Darmstadt and an Govt MBA from the College of Bradford.
