Press Release
ZF Supervisory Board appoints Dr. Lea Corzilius as new Board Member for Human Resources, Legal and Compliance
- Expert for the transformation of the automotive industry and in particular the supplier industry
- Extensive experience as Chief HR Officer and Labour Director
- Dr. Lea Corzilius succeeds Sabine Jaskula, who is leaving ZF at her own request at the end of July 2023
Friedrichshafen. In an extraordinary meeting, the Supervisory Board of ZF Friedrichshafen AG appointed Dr. Lea Corzilius as the new member of the Board of Management responsible for Human Resources, Legal and Compliance with effect from August 1, 2023. The 34-year-old economist was most recently employed as a member of the Management Board responsible for Human Resources at the Lippstadt-based automotive supplier HELLA.
“With Dr. Lea Corzilius, we have gained a highly competent successor for Sabine Jaskula. She knows the supplier industry and its current challenges very well and can therefore complement the Board of Management team around Dr. Holger Klein without any start-up time and set her own impulses,“ says ZF Supervisory Board Chairman Dr. Heinrich Hiesinger. “I would like to expressly thank Sabine Jaskula for her commitment to ZF over the past years. Thanks to her leadership, her areas of responsibility have developed quite decisively in recent years and are thus playing their part in implementing the ZF strategy.” Sabine Jaskula had joined ZF from Continental in 2019 and has been responsible for Human Resources, Legal and Compliance and Sustainability for the past five years.
Dr. Corzilius studied economics at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and the HEC Paris and earned her doctorate at the Technical University of Dortmund. In addition, she completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree at the University of Heidelberg. From 2011 to 2017, Dr. Corzilius worked for McKinsey & Company in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. In 2017, she moved to the automotive supplier HELLA and held various positions in the company’s human resources department. In October 2020, the shareholders’ committee appointed her as a member of the Management Board responsible for Human Resources and Labour Director. Since February 2022, she has also been responsible for the Lifecycle Solutions business segment, which bundles the activities of the Aftermarket and Special Original Equipment. In her role as a member of the Management Board responsible for Human Resources, she had global responsibility for strategic and operational HR functions, including HR and organisational development, labour law, HR compliance and HR Shared Services, and as well as for association work.
“Dr. Lea Corzilius has proven expertise in the supplier industry and is very familiar with HR issues. With her, we will continue the path of transformation, always keeping the interests of our employees in mind,” says Andreas Brand, representing the Zeppelin Foundation of the City of Friedrichshafen, which holds 93.8 percent of the shares in ZF.
After Sabine Jaskula’s announcement in February that she would not extend her contract at ZF beyond its term, which ends in December 2023, the Supervisory Board had intensively dealt with the search for a successor. “With Dr. Lea Corzilius, we are bringing well-founded expertise in human resources, expertise in our industry, but also a lot of fresh air to ZF in order to master the current and upcoming challenges,” adds the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Heinrich Hiesinger.
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