Oliver Zipse was born in 7th February 1964 Zipse moved on from secondary school in Bensheim in 1983. He is a German supervisor who has been filling in as Chairman of the Board of Management (CEO) of BMW since 16 August 2019. In 1999 he additionally moved on from the Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA Program which is a joint MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management, USA and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany.
Zipse is the sibling of the scientific expert Hendrik Zipse, who explores and educates at the LMU Munich as a Professor of Organic Chemistry. In 1985 he changed to mechanical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and graduated in 1991 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Zipse has consumed his whole expert time on earth at BMW AG. He joined the organization in 1991 as a student being developed, specialized arranging and creation. From 1992 to 1994, he filled in as an undertaking engineer in innovation improvement. From 2007 to 2008 he was the plant supervisor at the Mini-plant Oxford. On 13th May , 2015, he was selected to the leading group of the board of BMW AG, succeeding previous executive Harald Krüger; Zipse moved up to that situation from an administration job in item procedure and running the Mini gathering plant in England. On 18th July, 2019, Zipse was designated executive of the Board (CEO), viable 16th August 2019.