QuantumScape Corporation announced the appointment of Sebastian Schebera, head of strategic partnerships at Volkswagen AG, to its board of directors. Schebera was nominated at the request of the Volkswagen Group of America, QuantumScape?s largest shareholder, and he was elected at QuantumScape?s 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 11, 2024. announced the appointment of Sebastian Schebera, head of strategic partnerships at Volkswagen AG, to its board of directors.

Schebera was nominated at the request of the Volkswagen Group of America, QuantumScape?s largest shareholder, and he was elected at QuantumScape?s 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 11, 2024. Schebera will take one of the Volkswagen Group?s two seats on QuantumScape?s board of directors. He succeeds Jens Wiese, who served on the board since 2021.

Wiese stepped off the board to focus on a new venture capital fund that he co-founded, dedicated to sustainable technology investments. The company?s board of directors consists of 12 members: Jagdeep Singh, co-founder and chairman of the board of directors at QuantumScape Brad Buss, former Tesla board member and former CFO of Cypress Semiconductor and SolarCity JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, and founder and CEO of Redwood Materials Jeneanne Hanley, board member at KLA Corporation and former president of E-Systems, Lear Corporation Susan Huppertz, former chief supply chain officer of Johnson Controls Dr. Gena Lovett, board member of Trex and AdvanSix and former VP of operations at Boeing Dipender Saluja, managing director at Capricorn Investment Group Dr. Jürgen Leohold, former executive director of Group Research at the Volkswagen Group Frank Blome, CEO of PowerCo, the battery arm of the Volkswagen Group Sebastian Schebera, head of strategic partnerships at the Volkswagen Group Prof. Fritz Prinz, co-founder and chief scientific advisor at QuantumScape Dr. Siva Sivaram, president and CEO at QuantumScape.