John Sobeck stepped down from the Odette Board of Directors last year at the end of his three years’ term as Chairman, which coincided with his promotion to Vice President and Corporate Head of Logistics at ZF Friedrichshafen. John led the Board with great skill, helped to raise the profile of our activities wherever he went, and firmly believed in the value of working together at the European and Global levels.

We are very pleased to introduce the incoming Chairman, Philippe Paban from Renault in France. Philippe is Vice President for Manufacturing and Logistics Information Systems and brings a broad range of knowledge and experience in technology to the Board.

"I am very honoured to have been selected as the Chairman of Odette. During the past few months I have been very impressed by the diversity and excellence of recommendations made by the Odette project teams, in collaboration with the National Automotive Organisations. The scope of these standards goes far beyond the traditional electronics exchange format to include for example new technologies, Supply Chain performance improvement tools and security issues. These recommendations are more and more critical, especially as our Industry is facing significant challenges”, said Philippe.

We also warmly welcome to the Board Sabine Hucke from Fehrer representing the German Automotive Industry, Ingrid Lundberg from Volvo Logistics representing Sweden, Koldo Urabain from Mercedes Benz in Spain and Kevin Dimmelow representing UK. A complete list of the Directors, their affiliations and positions in their companies is shown below.