TapTechNews August 14th news, SAIC Volkswagen today released an announcement on senior personnel adjustments:
SAIC Volkswagen General Manager Tao Hailong also serves as the Party secretary of SAIC Volkswagen.
The former executive director of SAIC Volkswagen's mass brand marketing business, Fu Qiang, replaced Yu Jingmin as the executive deputy general manager of SAIC Volkswagen's sales and marketing and the general manager of Shanghai SAIC Volkswagen Automobile Sales Co., Ltd.
TapTechNews noted that Tao Hailong just took over as the general manager of SAIC Volkswagen on July 18th this year, and less than a month later, he also served as the Party secretary of SAIC Volkswagen.
As the saying goes, a new broom sweeps clean. Previously, the news showed that after taking office, Tao Hailong started his bold reform and planned to optimize more than 2 billion yuan in structural costs this year. Among them, the development license fee accounted for nearly 60% of the total estimated potential for optimization, followed by the optimization of sales expenses and personnel expenses, accounting for 18% and 8% respectively.
TapTechNews learned from publicly available information that Tao Hailong was born in 1968, a member of the Communist Party of China, a bachelor of engineering, a senior engineer, and has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. He has long worked in the quality assurance department and manufacturing department of SAIC Volkswagen. Then he served as the executive director and deputy general manager of the quality assurance department of SAIC Group's passenger car branch.
In addition, Tao Hailong also served as the general manager of Shanghai Automobile Transmission Co., Ltd. and the general manager of Huayu Automobile, a leading enterprise in China's auto parts industry, and now he has returned to SAIC Volkswagen again.
And the new executive deputy general manager of SAIC Volkswagen's sales and marketing, Fu Qiang, was born in 1977, an on-the-job postgraduate, a master of business administration, and an economist. After graduating in 1999, he entered SAIC Volkswagen and successively held the positions of sales manager of the South China sales service center, after-sales service customer service manager, manager of the Volkswagen brand network development and management department, manager of the powertrain and platform management department, manager of the Volkswagen brand ID. marketing department, and executive director of the Volkswagen brand marketing business, etc. He once participated in the establishment of the ID. pure electric product marketing system, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of the Volkswagen brand marketing system and other work.