Elmar Degenhart is a businessperson who has been the head of 7 different companies and presently holds the position of Chairman-Supervisory Board at ContiTech AG, Chairman-Management Board at ContiTech Luftfedersysteme GmbH and Chairman of Continental Tire the Americas LLC.

He previously occupied the position of Chairman-Executive Board at Continental AG and Member-Management Board at Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG (a subsidiary of Continental AG), Chief Executive Officer at 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 of Putsch GmbH & Co. KG, President of 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.

He received an undergraduate degree from Universität Stuttgart.