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Walter Mertl
Member of the Board of Management, Finance
2023 – 2024
1 year
Legacy
Mertl oversees financial performance, capital allocation, and cost discipline. As BMW's finance board member, Mertl manages the capital allocation tradeoffs of funding simultaneous investment across combustion, hybrid, and electric vehicle platforms, a more complex financial planning challenge than automakers pursuing a single-powertrain strategy face. He joined BMW's finance organization years before becoming board member for finance, giving him institutional knowledge of the company's capital-planning processes during a period of unusually high simultaneous investment across multiple powertrain technologies.