Dr. Murat Balak

It's official: Markus Haupt confirmed as Chief Executive Officer of SEAT and CUPRA after serving as interim CEO since April.      Haupt began his career at SEAT back in 2001, and quickly advanced, gaining over 20 years of experience within the Volkswagen Group, where he held leadership roles in different locations and positions. 🔝     A driver of change, since joining the company in 2022 as Executive Vice-President for Production and Logistics, he has overseen a €3 billion investment to electrify the Martorell plant and has led the Electric Urban Car family project, including the #CUPRARaval, set to launch in March 2026.  ⚡️     📢 Thomas Schäfer, Chair of the SEAT & CUPRA Supervisory Board: “Having successfully led the transformation of SEAT and CUPRA’s facilities in preparation for the Electric Urban Car family, Haupt is perfectly positioned to shape the brands’ future”.      The announcement comes at a crucial moment for SEAT S.A.:     🚀 CUPRA continues to grow as a key pillar for the company, now with a fully-fledged portfolio and a growing global fanbase. In this sense, following its ambition to become one of Spain’s truly global brands, it is investigating new growth opportunities in the Middle East.     🙌🏼 Along with CUPRA, the SEAT brand remains a cornerstone of the company’s present and future strategy. With over 21 million vehicles produced since 1950, it is now poised to enter a new era in its history with the upcoming World Premiere of its bestselling models, the SEAT Ibiza and Arona. 

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Porsche Automobil Holding SE and Deutsche Telekom in talks to anchor €500m European defence tech fund. The fund will be managed by Hamburg-based DTCP, a former Deutsche Telekom unit spun off a decade ago. Porsche SE, the holding company for the billionaire family behind Porsche AG and Volkswagen, announced plans to create a dedicated defence investment vehicle. The initiative aligns with a broader push by private equity and venture investors, including Lakestar, Tikehau Capital, and CVC, to deploy capital into the defence sector, historically avoided due to ethical and regulatory hurdles. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ddPW6hc4 #PEInsights #privateequity #fundraising #defense

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Diversification into the defense sector At Porsche Automobil Holding SE, we intend to further advance our diversification strategy in the portfolio segment by increasing our engagement in the defense and defense-related sectors while maintaining our core focus on mobility and industrial technology.   In the first half of 2025, Porsche SE generated an adjusted group result after tax of 1.1 billion euro, despite difficult market conditions. Group result after tax was 0.3 billion euro. At the same time, the company was able to optimize its refinancing. Key facts:   🔹 Group net debt reduced to 4.9 billion euro 🔹 Schuldschein loan successfully placed: volume of 1.5 billion euro 🔹 Updated outlook for 2025: adjusted group result after tax of between 1.6 billion euro and 3.6 billion euro Hans Dieter Pötsch, chairman of the board of management: “On our way to becoming a diversified investment platform, we are closely monitoring the areas of defense capability, security and European resilience.” 📢Press release: https://lnkd.in/eYmr6zdJ 📊Half-yearly financial report as of 30 June 2025: https://lnkd.in/d-zSs7E #PorscheSE #FinancialResults #Strategy #InvestmentPlatform #HalfYearResults #FutureTechnologies #Defense

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👋 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗘𝗩 𝗕𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝘁?​ ​ Our chairman of the shareholders’ board, Prof. Stefan Pischinger, just shook hands with the newest member of our team at the Aachen Colloquium.​ ​ At FEV, we believe the next leap in progress will come from 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 and increasingly 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀 working together. That’s why, we’re helping to shape this future by providing answers to questions like:​ ​ ❓ In which 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 will more intelligent robots be used?​ ❓ How can you adapt your current 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 for this new industry?​ ❓ How can you best set up initial 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 for a later 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲-𝘂𝗽?​ ​ 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲?​ 📍 Meet us next week, October 15-16, 2025, at the ELIV - Electronics in Vehicles in Bonn​ 🌐 Explore our website: https://lnkd.in/eP992hrX​ 📩 Contact our experts: Hagen Wegner, Benjamin Knobloch, Dr. Dominik Boemer, PMP, Riley Padovano​ ​ 👉 What do you think: how will humanoid robots change our work and daily lives? Feel free to share your comments or questions below.​ ​ #Robots #HumanoidRobotics #Technology #Innovation

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At IAA Mobility today, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann, and Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder joined Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume to celebrate the world’s first live demonstration of QS solid-state batteries powering an EV – a Ducati Motor Holding V21L motorcycle powered by QuantumScape’s QSE-5 battery cells.

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I am just returning from the IAA MOBILITY Munich, where we were invited by our partners at AUDI AG to an evening event organised around their new car model. For AUDI AG this is not just a new release, this is a new beginning, the first expression of a new design philosophy, expressed as: Radical Simplicity, Clarity. To me, this feels just right. The car’s exterior design is very pure, reminescent of Audi’s roots but also very modern. But the boldest expression of AUDI AG’s new philosophy is inside the car. Instead of playing the race towards an ever larger screen in the cabin, AUDI AG decided to embed a rather small screen, which folds and disappears under the dashboard. From a positioning point of view, the focus on simplicity and clarity is exactly what I think we need. With the AI era, the value for OEMs, across industries, will not be in providing more content, but filtering content to optimize the cognitive load on the users. AI also gives the opportunity to provide much more naturally the exact information that the passenger needs at any moment, not more. This is also how Neural Concept envisions user experience. In our collaboration with AUDI AG, we hope that this software experience philosophy, into the hands of engineers, will then translate into the right experience for the consumer. Picture with Marwan Khiat who was lead designer on the interior of the car.

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