Alexander Buresch is the new CIO at BMW, company sources told automotiveIT.
The BMW executive, who most recently served as vice president corporate strategy and planning for the premium car maker, succeeds Klaus Straub, who unexpectedly left the company earlier this month.
Buresch has a business and economics degree from Germany’s Hohenheim University.
Straub, who took over as head of BMW’s IT in 2014, left the carmaker of his own accord. Coming from competitor Audi, he joined BMW in 2012 as head of organizational development before becoming CIO two years later.
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Klaus Straub, CIO of BMW has left the company, the German premium car maker confirmed Thursday.
It’s been less than a year since archrivals BMW and Daimler received the regulatory approvals needed to merge their mobility services into a new jointly owned company and the two German premium car groups are moving steadily ahead with plans to develop revenue streams that can, one day, offset expected declines in traditional new-car sales.
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