AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE APPOINTED

THE AUTOMOTIVE Industry Development Centre (AIDC) in Gauteng has appointed Lance Schultz, previously managing director of the AIDC in the Eastern Cape, as chief executive of the centre. Schultz was most recently the chief executive of the Centurion Aerospace Village in Pretoria for four years. He has been part of the AIDC on two previous occasions and was a project manager in Gauteng between 2002 and 2005 and managing director of the AIDC in the Eastern Cape from 2014 until 2015. Schultz, a qualified industrial engineer, previously worked for Mercedes-Benz South Africa for almost a decade and was a the project manager at Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality responsible for the development of the an automotive supplier park in the region.