My Net Worth: Adam Shaver, managing director, BMW Group NZ

My Net Worth: Adam Shaver, managing director, BMW Group NZ
Adam Shaver says vehicle pricing has helped 'insulate' BMW in the EV market. (Image: BMW)
Brent Melville
Welcome to My Net Worth, our regular column on the lives and motivations of our country’s top business, legal and political players, in their own words.Canadian Adam Shaver stepped into the driver’s seat of BMW’s New Zealand operations in April 2022 after a career spanning two decades across operations, sales and marketing in the North American and German markets. His NZ role puts him in charge of 40 local staff with a network of 10 dealerships. He classes himself as a "car nut", but it wasn’t always that way &...

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