Beda Bolzenius has over 30 years of experience in leadership roles across the global automotive industry including Germany, the USA, Mexico, South Africa, China, and Japan.
His career was based on a strong technical background and operational experience in engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain management. He had leadership positions in market-leading companies like Bosch, running the Body Electronics division. After that, he joined Johnson Controls to run their global automotive business. He was Vice Chairman at JCI, located in Shanghai with the responsibility of driving growth in APAC.Most recently, Beda was President and CEO of the KKR-owned supplier Marelli, one of the ten largest suppliers in the world. He led significant transformational initiatives, improving the competitive position of the divisions and companies and creating recognized value. These transformations were built on new planning and controlling tools going hand in hand with efficiency gains in all major business processes. For his entrepreneurial transformations, he was honored twice by Automotive News as supplier chairman of the year.