Overview

• Axel Kruse will assume the role of chief operating officer on September 1, succeeding Fred Brousseau who is returning to Canada later this year.
• Kruse brings experience from his early-2000s tenure as a BMW engineer supporting Williams and 15 years as Sauber’s COO.
• Team principal James Vowles said Kruse will lead investments in personnel, technology and infrastructure to accelerate Williams’s bid for front-running performance.
• Williams’s transformation, launched in April 2023 under Brousseau, has yielded measurable business improvements and stronger on-track results.
• Matt Harman has been promoted from design director to engineering technical director as part of the team’s operational overhaul.