VW Boss Mueller Saved Company. Now He's Headed for the Exit

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Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Officer Matthias Mueller has won wide praise for steering the automaker through the near-death experience of cheating on die-sel emissions testing-but that wasn't enough to keep him in the job.On April 13, VW's supervisory board will vote on sweeping changes that will include replacing Mueller with Herbert Diess, the head of VW's namesake brand, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified speaking ahead of an official announcement.The 64-year-old Mueller, who took over in 2015 and has worked inside the Volkswagen structure his entire adult life, has two years left on his current contract. At the close of trading April 10, the company's shares were up 4.5 percent.