Continental has announced that Dr Ismail Dagli will take charge of Continental’s Autonomous Mobility business area, effective October 1, 2023 succeeding Frank Petznick, who will leave the company at his own request at the end of this month.
Following the realignment of the Automotive group sector at the beginning of 2022, this business unit was transferred to the Autonomous Mobility business area, which Dagli will now head.
The computer scientist earned his doctorate researching Artificial Intelligence in autonomous driving and started his career in 2005 as a development engineer for advanced driver assistance and active safety systems at Daimler.
In 2008, he moved to Bosch, where he held various management positions in Germany and the United States. In 2020, Dr Dagli joined Continental and took over as head of research and development within the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems business unit.
Since the beginning of 2022, he has headed Continental’s Smart Mobility business area, which oversees business involving mobility services, fleet operators and commercial vehicle manufacturers within the Automotive group sector.
Petznick took over as head of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems business area at Continental at the beginning of August 2020.
Philipp von Hirschheydt, Member of Continental’s Executive Board and Head of the Automotive group sector, said that Dr Dalgi will forge ahead with the partner-focused business strategy of the Autonomous Mobility business area with the aim of strengthening and expanding its market position technologically and commercially.
“We would like to thank Frank Petznick, who over the past three years has helped us – through strategic partnerships with Ambarella, Horizon Robotics and Aurora – become one of the few full-range suppliers in advanced driver assistance systems and automated and autonomous driving. We wish him all the best for the future,” added von Hirschheydt.
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