About us

He previously worked as Head of Strategy & Operations ADAS&AD in CARIAD SE and has also been a member of the Supervisory Board of FDTech GmbH and ASTech GmbH. Prior to joining CARIAD SE, he held various management positions at Audi AG and Volkswagen Group subsidiaries. 

He graduated from university in psychology, and he started his career in the Internal Organization Development at Audi AG in 1995. From 2001, he headed the Management Consulting, Marketing and Sales of Volkswagen Bildungsinstitut GmbH for the branches in Dresden and Poland. From 2007, he headed the Project Management / Strategy Concepts department of chassis developement at Audi AG, before being appointed CEO of EFS GmbH in 2016. Between 2019 and 2020, he led Strategy, Architecture, Pre-/Concept-Development of automated driving functions and chassis developement at Audi AG.

Before joining Digiteq Automotive, he was Head of Development and Product Controlling at Škoda Auto for eight years. In this position, he was responsible for the financial management of new projects such as the successor to the KODIAQ, the successor to the SUPERB, and Škoda Auto’s new electric models. Since 2015, he has also been appointed as a member of the General Assembly of Digiteq Automotive. 

Pavel Štěpánek holds a degree in economics. After graduating in 2002, he started his career at Škoda Auto, and he has held various management positions within controlling both domestically and internationally since 2005. In the period from 2010 to 2015, he served as the CFO for the Group’s sales company VGR in Moscow, where he was responsible for the management and financial performance of the Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Bentley, and Lamborghini brands.