Werner Happenhofer

“Werner and me worked 1.5 years together advising the General Management of Great Wall Motors R&D to build up strategy, vision, mission, guide on market entrance strategies / scenarios, partner management, give insights and leadership to eventually prepare the launch of Chinese vehicles in Europe and USA. Werner, is a very hands on down to earth leader with longstanding experience across the auto industry. Werner has a driving personality, highly motivating and solution oriented, very dedicated into his work, strong networker who's integrating resources across the company and partner firms while having the ability to communicate with his peers on eye-level. I highly endorse Werner as a strategic leader, with a very strong business acumen and an outstanding knowledge in the technical domain of modern vehicle mobility solution! ”

“Werner is a seasoned automotive professional and it has been a pleasure working with him during our time at Great Wall Motor Company (GWM). I've had an opportunity to personally witness Werner's excellent performance in product development strategy as we were collaborating on creating new automotive technologies and business models for automated driving. I truly valued his counsel as we helped the company navigated this very complex landscape in the automotive industry. His insights when considering the integration of new automotive powertrains with automated driving technologies was very instrumental in identifying business opportunities. I could always count on Werner to provide important, well thought out, and informed business and technology recommendations that help us to move the project forward. In addition to observing his contributions in our collaborations in automated driving strategy, I've been tremendously impressed with his work in developing technology strategies for GWM in accessing the US and other world automotive markets. There are tremendous cultural, business, and language barriers when trying to bridge the gap in a rapidly growing global company like GWM, and Werner has been masterful in building the important relationships to get things done to arrive at a consensus on important business issues. It's been an amazing experience working with Werner and I hope we have the opportunity to do so again. Werner has my highest recommendation and I wish him luck in his future endeavors.”