Management
The management‘s declared objective is to continue extending IAV’s range of expertise in automotive engineering and keep the company on a profitable course of growth.

Dr. Uwe Horn
President and CHRO
Dr. Uwe Horn has been a member of the Management Board and Director of Labor Relations of IAV since January 1, 2020, and has been appointed President on April 28, 2023.
After studying economic sciences in Hamburg and Texas, Uwe Horn began as a doctoral student at Volkswagen. He then worked in HR for VW do Brasil and in HR development for the VW Group. Among other positions, he was HR Manager in Poznan, Poland, from 2000 to 2004 and at the VW factory in Zwickau from 2009 to 2013. Dr. Uwe Horn was Managing Director of the Saxony Education Institute (SBI, Sächsisches Bildungsinstitut) from 2007 to 2009, and he worked in the Volkswagen Vertriebsbetreuungsgesellschaft from 2014 to 2017.
From 2018 to 2019, he was Commercial Director on the management board of Autostadt in Wolfsburg.

Katja Ziegler
CFO
Katja Ziegler has been Chief Financial Officer at IAV since January 1, 2019.
Katja Ziegler began her professional career as a management consultant before working in the telecommunications industry for E-Plus Mobilfunk in Düsseldorf. Here the graduate business administrator was responsible among others for process management and management accounting. She then worked for MAN Middle East in Dubai where she set up the management control system for the Middle East region, before joining IAV as Director of Controlling in 2009. In 2017 she was appointed Executive Vice President Finance, Controlling & Procurement and Supervisor of IAV Automotive Engineering, Shanghai.
Katja Ziegler took her degree in business administration at Berlin University of Technology.
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