EAWD'19 Program

Roger Griffiths has an extensive background in many motorsport efforts, including Formula E, Formula 1, IndyCar, American Le Mans Series, European Le Mans Series and Super Touring Cars.
In 1994, he moved to the prestigious Formula 1 circuit and took a position as track development engineer for Cosworth Racing.
He joined Ray Mallock in 1996, served as a development engineer for the Opel Touring Car Development Team and then joined the Nissan Touring Car Group as a race engineer. In 1998, he was promoted to Senior Design and Development Engineer for RML, where he served as Project Manager for Sports Car Design.
Griffiths returned to Cosworth and Formula 1 in 1999 as project manager for the Minardi F1 organisation.
In 2003 Roger joined the HPD team as Race Team Technical Leader for the Honda project in the IRL Series.
In 2007, he took charge of the major IndyCar engine program project. From 2011 he was appointed Technical Director and took Honda back to the competitive era.
In April 2014 Roger joined Andretti Autosport as Director of Motorsports Development. In 2016, he was elected Chairman of the Formula E Teams Association and held this position for two seasons.
In 2018, with the creation of the new BMWi Andretti Motorsport Formula E Team, Roger was appointed Team Principal.
Roger was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers on April 4, 2019.

Dr. Stefan Demmerle has been President and General Manager of BorgWarner PowerDrive Systems since November 2015, following the acquisition and integration of Remy Inc. He joined BorgWarner in 2012 as President and General Manager of BorgWarner TorqTransfer Systems.

Dr. Demmerle began his career in France with assignments in Sales and Program Management for automotive engine components. He holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, as well as a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.

Prior to joining BorgWarner, Dr. Demmerle became Vice President of the Powertrain Electronics Business at Continental from 2010 to 2012 after leading Continental Diesel Systems (formerly known as Siemens Diesel Systems Technology) as President and CEO from 2006 to 2010. He previously held positions of increasing responsibility within Siemens VDO Automotive in the transmission and engine electronics businesses in France and worldwide.

Hannes Prenn began his career in 1996 as an application engineer at GKN Driveline. Until 2012, he held various positions including Chief Engineer and Account Manager for GKN´s Specialty Vehicle Group, Program Director Europe and Program Director South Europe Operations.

In 2018, he became Vice President Operations AWD / eDrive Division - Global at GKN Driveline. In this role, he was responsible for seven plants worldwide, with approximately 6,000 employees and sales of GBP 1.35 billion.

His current position is Chief Operating Officer, GKN ePowertrain.

Harald Naunheimer started his career in 1989 as a research associate at the University of Stuttgart at the Institute for Machine Elements (IMA). In 1995, he became a development engineer and head of design transmissions for wheeled vehicles at Renk AG. He then worked as director of application engineering for automatic transmissions for passenger cars at ZF Getriebe GmbH in Saarbrücken before becoming head of automatic transmission development. In 2009, he became Senior Vice President Corporate Research and Development at ZF Group.
In 2018, he worked as a freelance consultant and interim manager. Currently, Harald Naunheimer is Vice President Future Poducts at Magna Powertrain.