Despite the firestorm of lawsuits and the newest controversy involving car emission, Volkswagen has housed in a former Apple executive to head their digital transformation across all the brands, according to Volkswagen press release.
This is not the first time ex-Apple executive; Johann Jungwrith worked with a car company.
Jungwrith, 42, was president and CEO at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development in North America. Jungwrith was assigned to deal with R&D in autonomous driving, connected cars and electric powertrains for Mercedes-Benz.
In his Apple days, which only lasted to almost one year, he is the former director for Mac engineering.
Jungwriths Linkedln have very detailed descriptions of his past jobs but when it came to his Apple background it only said "building great Mac products."
Now, it is no secret that Apple is very tightlipped about its products and this applies to their employees as well. To whatever nature Jungwrith was working in Apple it must have been highly important.
With his background it could be that he worked on the rumored Apple car, which is said to be "Project Titan."
Project Titan is said to be a major project by Apple, which is about their very first car and has a rumored launch date of 2019. The project is said to have 600 members, which are all very competent enough to create cars, a rumored 46 of these are former employees of Tesla. Jungwrith is said to have worked on this project as well.
Well, whatever Jungwrith has planned, one thing is for sure he is no longer with Apple and their secret project. He is now with Volkswagen.
For Volkswagen taking in Jungwrith to spearhead their digital frontier could mean that the car manufacturer is not disturbed by the "dieselgate" they are currently still tackling.
For Jungwrith this is just another job in another mega company where he will be able to fully display his capabilities.
