InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate BMW poised to pick production chief as CEO after Krueger bows out By financialnews_rlv83x - July 5, 2019 0 153 BMW board member Oliver Zipse, a 55 year-old company veteran, is the front runner to become the carmaker’s new chief executive, sources said on Friday after Harald Krueger announced he would not stay on beyond April 2020.