BMW Group Appoints Hans Coertze as Head of IT Region Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa

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Prior to his new appointment, Mr. Coertze, who is now based in Singapore, served as the Head of Ordering, Program Planning and ItO delivery at the IT Hub in South Africa, responsible for applications development and support to the central organisation and various markets globally.

December 2023 : The BMW Group has appointed Hans Coertze as the Head of IT Region Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa effective 1st November 2023. Prior to his new appointment, Mr. Coertze, who is now based in Singapore, served as the Head of Ordering, Program Planning and ItO delivery at the IT Hub in South Africa, responsible for applications development and support to the central organisation and various markets globally.

Mr. Coertze began his career with the BMW Group in 1992 as a graduate in Mechanical Engineering with BMW Plant Rosslyn in South Africa, where he spent six years, in areas such as plant logistics, vehicle launch topics and body shop. In 1998, Mr. Coertze embarked on his IT career with the BMW Group, which includes IT infrastructure support, applications operations and data centre-related topics before taking on the leading role at the South Africa IT Hub in 2014.

The BMW Group thanks the outgoing Head of IT, Julius Marcea, for his hard work and dedication these past three and a half years. Under his IT leadership, in close collaboration with business colleagues, the team set up the India IT Hub, made online sales and online stock locator functionalities available throughout the region, rolled out new CRM systems, automated a significant share of processes and replaced the dealership management systems as well as Financial Services IT systems in several countries with modern cloud-based applications. Mr. Marcea is joining his family in Munich and will return to the BMW headquarters to take on a new role as IT Head in Europe.

With more than 200 employees, BMW Group IT Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, supports 12 National Sales Companies and 10 BMW Financial Services markets that span from Australia/New Zealand to South Africa. These include business entities such as Rolls-Royce, MINI, BMW Manufacturing plants in Thailand and India and 32 BMW Group Importer markets within the region.

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