Change within executive board
Dr. Martin Gall, CEO of the DRÄXLMAIER Group, has leaving the company at his own request for personal reasons.
Gall has been with the company for more than 17 years, during which he held various management positions. He was appointed to the board of directors as chief technology officer (CTO) in 2014 and named CEO together with Franz Haslinger in March 2020.
In his role as CTO, Gall played a key role in setting up the technology fields Battery Systems and Electronic Components, and had so a decisive influence on the future development of the company. Among other things, he initiated the highly automated production of battery and interior systems. He was also essentially involved in the success of an innovative broadband antenna technology for air traffic.
Vice Chairman Stefan Brandl has assumed the role of CEO in addition to his current responsibilities and will lead the executive board together with CEO Haslinger. The functional units, Technical Engineering and Finance, will report to Brandl in the future. Dr. Markus Junginger has already succeeded Gall as CTO of the DRÄXLMAIER Group as of July 1, 2021.
"I accept the decision of Dr. Martin Gall to resign for personal reasons with great regret," said Chairman Fritz Dräxlmaier. "He has driven forward the trend-setting technical development of our company with extraordinary personal commitment and great expertise. I would like to thank Dr. Martin Gall most sincerely for the trustful cooperation and wish him all the best for the future."
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DRÄXLMAIER Group
The DRÄXLMAIER Group supplies premium automobile manufacturers worldwide with complex wiring harness systems, central electrical and electronic components, exclusive interiors, and battery systems for electromobility. The combination of core competencies in the interior, electrical, electronic and battery systems areas makes DRÄXLMAIER unique in the industry. The company thereby covers the entire process chain, from the initial idea, through the development and production process, and up to precisely in-sequence delivery of the products to the assembly lines of premium automobile manufacturers. The inventor of the customer-specific wiring harness, the DRÄXLMAIER Group develops pioneering wiring harness technology as well as electrical and electronic components, all directly in-house. These include multi-voltage and high-voltage wiring harness systems, battery management systems and intelligent power distributors. DRÄXLMAIER is working on the future of emission-free mobility with its solution for low-voltage and high-voltage battery systems. As a market leader for interior systems in premium automobiles, the DRÄXLMAIER Group also supplies premium automobile manufacturers with ambient lighting, center consoles, door panels and instrument panels, as well as complete door and cockpit modules.
The DRÄXLMAIER Group is an international automotive supplier with about 65 sites in over 20 countries. Founded in Germany in 1958, the company employs about 74,000 employees throughout the world. For the DRÄXLMAIER Group as an owner-managed business, responsible and long-range thinking has always been the basis for economic success. It is therefore a core element of its strategy to design its business and production processes, as well as its products, in a more sustainable manner and in that way to increase the competitiveness of the company on a long-term basis.
In 2022, the DRÄXLMAIER Group generated sales of 5.1 billion euro. Customers of this member of the Top 100 Automotive Suppliers include Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, MINI, Porsche and Volkswagen, as well as Californian automotive manufacturers.