Lamborghini announces organisational change in R&D department

Lamborghini announced an organizational change in the Research and Development Department. Rouven Mohr is appointed Chief Technical Officer of Lamborghini and leaves his role as Head of Verification/Validation Whole Vehicle at Audi AG in Germany. The handover takes place with Maurizio Reggiani, who, after a glorious career in the supercar industry, more than half of which was spent at the helm of Lamborghini's Technical Department, takes up current the strategic position of Vice President Motorsport at the company.

Maurizio Reggiani will be responsible for the next strategic direction of Lamborghini's entire motorsport division, which in recent years has taken off with some of the most important victories in GT championships. The move into the new position, at a time of transition for the racing sector towards an increasingly sustainable future, is therefore aimed at strengthening Lamborghini Squadra Corse in prestigious and highly competitive championships.

Rouven Mohr and Maurizio Reggiani

Born in San Martino Spino (Modena) in 1959, Maurizio Reggiani was raised in the Motor Valley. He spent his professional life among high performance engines: first Maserati, where he began his career in 1982 in the department dedicated to engine design and development. Then Bugatti in Campogalliano, from 1987 to 1995, where he was responsible for the EB110 powertrain. Finally Lamborghini, where he joined in 1995 as Project Leader of the Murcielago, a role he held until 2001, when he was appointed Responsible of the R&D Powertrain and Suspension Division. In 2006 he was appointed Chief Technical Officer and in this role he defined the strategies behind the most important technological and design innovations of the V12, V10 and V8T models and the few-offs of the House of the Raging Bull, thus contributing to sustaining the commercial records of recent years with continuously successful products.

Rouven Mohr was born in 1979 in Saarbrücken, Germany. After an engineering degree at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and a phd in Numerical Mechanics, he joined Audi in 2008 within the R&D Department as Testing Engineer for Chassis Durability, before gaining increasing responsibility until his appointment in 2014 as Head of Project Management Whole Vehicle for Audi A3, TT, Q7 and Q8 models.

In 2017 he moved to Lamborghini, where he spent two years as Head of Whole Vehicle Development, overseeing the development of the Aventador, Huracán and Urus models, before returning to Audi as Head of Energy and Weight-Management. Lastly, in 2020 he was appointed Head of Verification/Validation Whole Vehicle, an experience that he now completes with a return to Lamborghini as CTO.

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