AUTO1 Group announced two additions to its Supervisory Board, further strengthening the Group's marketing, financial services and ESG expertise. Vassilia "Nelly" Kennedy (52), Senior Global Managing Director Google Brand, and Lars Santelmann (59), who until February 2022 served as the CEO of Volkswagen Financial Services AG, were formally appointed as members of the Supervisory Board by the Annual General Meeting in June. Nelly Kennedy has many years of international management experience in marketing and PR as well as in change management and held among others senior positions at Benetton Sportsystem/K-STLE SKI, adidas AG and Cond- Nast Publishing. She has been part of Google's global marketing leadership team since 2015. As part of her supervisory board role at AUTO1 Group, Nelly chairs the Group's marketing and branding committee. Lars Santelmann is an automotive executive with a long career at Volkswagen Group, including as chief sales officer of SEAT S.A. and at Volkswagen Financial Services AG, where he served as a member of the Board of Management for a number of years before being appointed CEO in 2015, a position he held until February 2022. As part of his supervisory board duties at AUTO1 Group, Lars chairs the ESG committee and is also a member of the audit committee.
Nelly Kennedy succeeds Andrin Bachmann, who left the board in June, while Lars Santelmann was elected as a new sixth member to the Supervisory Board.