After Porsche's CFO Lutz Meschke and CFO Detlev von Platen unexpectedly announced their resignations, the supervisory board acted quickly and reached a consensus on their successors. Starting immediately, Porsche has welcomed two new executives: Jochen Breckner, 47, who will take over the finance department, and Matthias Becker, 54, who will be in charge of sales. This change marks the return of Porsche's board of directors to its full lineup.
Wolfgang Porsche, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, commented on this matter, "We are deeply pleased to have discovered two outstanding successors within Porsche, Jochen Breckner and Matthias Becker. We will work together with them to continue writing Porsche's glorious and successful chapter

Speaking of Breckner, his career is closely linked to Porsche. Starting as an intern and graduate student, he spent over 25 years at Porsche before becoming a PhD in Business Administration. In 2008, he was fortunate enough to serve as a trusted assistant to the Chairman of the Executive Board (then Wendelin Wiedeking). Subsequently, through multiple job experiences in the control department, he accumulated rich experience. In 2018, he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility to oversee the Porsche General Secretariat and Corporate Development Department. In this role, he demonstrated outstanding leadership skills, successfully driving the company's initial public offering (IPO) and implementing efficiency improvement plans. And Breckner's successor will be Christian Pantel, who is currently responsible for a certain Porsche model series.

As for Becker, his journey at Porsche began in 2015. According to the announcement, as a leader in overseas and growth market regions, he has successfully built over 70 markets including Southeast Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America into the backbone of Porsche's sales network. Prior to this, he also had extensive management experience within the Volkswagen Group, including sales leadership positions in the European and Chinese markets at Audi, as well as experience in the marketing departments of the group's subsidiaries Skoda and Volkswagen Germany.

In the face of the resignation controversy between Meschke and von Platen, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Wolfgang Porsche, highly praised their contributions. Although this change came as a surprise to the outside world, Porsche is striving to interpret it as a strategic layout that was already prepared. Both colleagues have demonstrated the trait of driving the company's development with a future oriented approach from day one. Thanks to structured succession planning and long-term talent development, we will benefit greatly from it, "said Oliver Blume, CEO of Porsche.