Aeva Appoints Dr. Stefan Sommer, Former CEO of ZF Group and Board Member at Volkswagen Group, to its Board of Directors
07 November 2023 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Automotive Industry Veteran Brings Decades of
Leadership Experience to Help Accelerate Adoption of Aeva’s 4D
LiDAR Technology
Aeva® (NYSE: AEVA), a leader in next-generation sensing and
perception systems, today announced the appointment of Stefan
Sommer to its Board of Directors, effective November 15, 2023.
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“With a distinguished executive leadership career spanning many
of the world’s leading organizations in the automotive industry
including top global automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, we are
pleased to welcome Dr. Sommer to Aeva’s Board of Directors,” said
Mina Rezk, Chairman of the Board, Co-founder and Chief Technology
Officer at Aeva. “His extraordinary breadth of experience,
including executing a growth strategy that resulted in ZF becoming
one of the largest Tier 1 automotive suppliers globally, will
benefit Aeva on our path to commercializing and broadening adoption
of our 4D LiDAR technology in automotive and will help further our
mission toward bringing perception to everything.”
Dr. Sommer is a Member of the Supervisory Board at Knorr-Bremse
AG, a global leader in safety technology for the automotive and
rail industries. Prior to this role, he has held a variety of
leadership positions including Chief Executive Officer of ZF AG, as
an appointed member to the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG in
Wolfsburg with responsibility for the Components and Procurement
business, and several leadership positions within the Continental
Group. Dr. Sommer studied Mechanical Engineering and earned his
Engineering Doctorate from Ruhr University Bochum.
“The automotive industry is undergoing profound technological
change where innovation will be driven through partnerships with
advanced technology solution providers,” said Dr. Sommer. “Aeva’s
FMCW technology holds a unique potential to help advance the
industry to new levels of automation and safety within the
automotive industry and across a wide array of industrial
applications. I look forward to bringing my experience to bear for
Aeva as we bring this next-generation sensing and perception
technology to market.”
About Aeva Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: AEVA)
Aeva’s mission is to bring the next wave of perception to a
broad range of applications from automated driving to industrial
robotics, consumer electronics, consumer health, security and
beyond. Aeva is transforming autonomy with its groundbreaking
sensing and perception technology that integrates all key LiDAR
components onto a silicon photonics chip in a compact module. Aeva
4D LiDAR sensors uniquely detect instant velocity in addition to 3D
position, allowing autonomous devices like vehicles and robots to
make more intelligent and safe decisions. For more information,
visit www.aeva.com, or connect with us on X or LinkedIn.
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Resolution, 4D Perception, and 4D Localization are
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