New Head at Continental CCN

Continental AG has appointed JeanFrançois Tarabbia as the Executive Vice President, Head of Business Unit Connected Car Networking (CNN). The former Group Senior Vice President, Research & Development (R&D) and Product Marketing at Valeo (in France) took over the new role effective January 01, 2021. He succeeds Johann Hiebl who joined as Head - Product Transformation VNI. Tarabbia with stints as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Segula Technologies, and CEO Electronic Division, member of the Board at Hella (in Germany) and Chief Operating Officer - Body and Chassis Electronics at Siemens, will head the technologies and services unit aimed at connecting vehicles securely and reliably. Especially given the backdrop of new E/E architecture with Body High Performance Computer (HPC) taking precedence.