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VW Hires Daimler’s Compliance and Ethics Chief
Volkswagen AG has hired Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt to lead a new board-level position as head of integrity and legal affairs. Her assignment will begin on Jan. 1.
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Volkswagen AG has hired Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt to lead a new board-level position as head of integrity and legal affairs. Her assignment will begin on Jan. 1.
Hohmann-Dennhardt has held a similar post at Daimler AG since February 2011. Daimler Chairman Manfred Bischoff agreed to release her from her contract, which doesn’t expire until early 2017, “in the interests of the good corporate governance of the German automotive industry.” Daimler adds that “compliance is now firmly anchored (in the company) and in its corporate culture.”
Her new appointment makes Hohmann-Dennhardt the seventh member of Daimler’s management board and the first-ever woman named to that group. Her role will be to oversee government compliance, ethics and legal matters in the wake of VW’s massive diesel emission cheating scandal.
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