BMW Media Site Personnel Realignment of BMW Group Corporate Communications Management Team. Contact:   Martina Hatzel BMW Group +49-89-382-11966 (office) martina.hatzel@bmwgroup.com Personnel Realignment of BMW Group Corporate Communications Management Team. Maximilian Schöberl, Chief Representative of BMW AG and responsible for Corporate and Governmental Affairs at the company, is reorganising his management team, effective October 2019, as the process of handing over to the next generation continues.  Munich, Germany-September 13, 2019… Maximilian Schöberl, Executive Vice President of BMW AG and responsible for Corporate and Governmental Affairs at the company, is reorganising his management team, effective October 2019, as the process of handing over to the next generation continues. Alexander Bilgeri, previously responsible for Corporate, Product and Innovation Communications, will take over as head of Corporate Communications Strategy, Messaging, Communication Channels for the BMW Group. His successor will be Nikolai Glies, previously head of Communications for the BMW Group’s Americas region. There will also be a change in leadership at the Government and External Affairs Department. Dr. Thomas Becker, who has been responsible for and further developed these topics for almost 12 years, will now bring his expertise to a new strategic role in the changing automotive environment, within the Division of the Chairman of the Board of Management. Becker hands over to Glenn Schmidt, who is currently responsible for international Market Communications. Schmidt will be followed in this role by Bill McAndrews. McAndrews, who has served as Maximilian Schöberl's deputy since 2006, has held various management positions in external and internal communications at the BMW Group, most recently as head of Corporate Communications Strategy, Messaging, Communication Channels. The responsibilities of Birgit Hiller (head of Internal Corporate Communications and Communications Production Network since November 2018) and Ulrich Knieps (head of BMW Group Classic) remain unchanged. Maximilian Schöberl: "On the basis of the new organisational structures already introduced last year, we continue to bring in the next generation with this realignment of my team. This will put BMW Group Corporate and Governmental Affairs in a strong position to support and shape external and internal change in our industry in the years to come.”  BMW Group In AmericaBMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975.  Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003.  The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars; Designworks, a strategic design consultancy based in California;  a technology office in Silicon Valley, and various other operations throughout the country.  BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is the BMW Group global center of competence for BMW X models and assembles the X3, X4, X5, X6 and X7 Sports Activity Vehicles as well as the BMW XM. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 349 BMW passenger car and BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 145 BMW motorcycle retailers, 104 MINI passenger car dealers, and 38 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers.  BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group’s sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.www.bmwgroup.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/BMWGroupTwitter: http://twitter.com/BMWGroupYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/BMWGroupviewGoogle+: http://googleplus.bmwgroup.comJournalist note: Information about BMW Group and its products in the USA is available to journalists on-line at www.bmwusanews.com, www.miniusanews.com and www.press.bmwna.com.