Ismail Dagli to Become New Head of Continental’s Autonomous Mobility Business Area

New Delhi. Frankfurt am Main, September 21, 2023. Effective October 1, Dr. Ismail Dagli (48) will take charge of Continental’s Autonomous Mobility business area, succeeding Frank Petznick, who will leave the company this quest at the end of September.

 Since the beginning of 2022, Dagli 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. 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, Dagli joined Continental and took over as head of research and development within the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems business unit. Following the alignment of the Automotive group sector at the beginning of 2022, this business unit was transferred to the AutonomousMobilitybusinessarea, which Dagliwillnowhead.

 “Ismail Dagli is an internationally experienced manager with extensive market and technology expertise in automated and autonomous driving. He will forge ahead with the partner-focusedbusinessstrategyofourAutonomousMobilitybusinessareawith the aim of strength ending and expanding its market position technologically and commercially,” said Philipp von Hirschheydt, member’s Executive head automotive group sector.