Elmar Degenhart is a businessperson who has been at the head of 7 different companies and currently occupies the position of Chairman-Executive Board at Continental AG and Chairman of Continental Tire the Americas LLC, Chairman-Supervisory Board of ContiTech AG and Chairman-Management Board at ContiTech Luftfedersysteme GmbH (which are all subsidiaries of Continental AG).

In his past career Elmar Degenhart occupied the position of Chief Executive Officer of Keiper Recaro Group Holding, Executive Vice President-Electronic Brake Systems at Continental AG and Member-Management Board at Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG (a subsidiary of Continental AG), Chief Executive Officer for Putsch GmbH & Co. KG, President at Schaeffler Group Automotive, Director-Operations Brake Systems at ITT Automotive Europe GmbH & Co. KG, President-Chassis Systems at Robert Bosch GmbH and Head-Department Handling at The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Eng & Automation.

Dr. Degenhart received an undergraduate degree from Universität Stuttgart.