Elmar Degenhart is a businessperson who has been at the head of 6 different companies and presently holds the position of Chairman-Executive Board at Continental AG and Chairman of Continental Tire the Americas LLC and Chairman-Supervisory Board for ContiTech AG (both are subsidiaries of Continental AG).

In the past Dr. Degenhart occupied the position of Chief Executive Officer of Keiper Recaro Group Holding, President at Schaeffler Group Automotive, 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, 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.