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August 28, 2025

AUMOVIO Executive Board Complete: Jutta Dönges Becomes Chief Financial Officer

  • Dr Jutta A. Dönges will take over the role of CFO of AUMOVIO SE latest by March 1, 2026 from CEO Philipp von Hirschheydt, who is currently holding this role on an interim basis
  • Stefan E. Buchner, designated Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AUMOVIO SE: "With Jutta Dönges, we have gained not only an experienced financial expert, but also an outstanding leader"
  • Jutta Dönges: "Together with my colleagues I am very much looking forward to consistently implementing the value strategy of AUMOVIO as an independent technology company"

Frankfurt, Germany, August 28, 2025. Dr Jutta A. Dönges will become a member of the executive board and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of AUMOVIO SE (AUMOVIO). She will take over the role no later than March 1, 2026 from AUMOVIO CEO Philipp von Hirschheydt, who is holding this role on an interim basis. Dönges was appointed by the supervisory board of AUMOVIO for a period of 3 years. The 52-year-old is currently a member of the executive board of Uniper SE as CFO.

"We are very pleased to have gained not only an experienced financial expert in Jutta Dönges, but also an outstanding leader whose expertise ideally complements the AUMOVIO executive board. I would like to take this opportunity to express my special thanks to Philipp von Hirschheydt and the team, who have taken on the responsibility of Jutta Dönges’ future function with great commitment during the transitional period," says Stefan E. Buchner, designated Chairman of the supervisory board of AUMOVIO.

AUMOVIO will act as a company independent from Continental with its planned stock market listing on September 18, 2025. The appointment of Dönges as CFO further strengthens and positions the executive board of the technology and electronics company for its development as an independent, listed company.

"With many years of financial and capital market experience, Jutta Dönges has the ideal prerequisites to jointly advance AUMOVIO on its further path as an independent, listed company in the best possible way. I am very much looking forward to working with her," adds Philipp von Hirschheydt, CEO AUMOVIO.

"AUMOVIO is an extremely dynamic company in a highly exciting environment. I am very much looking forward to consistently implementing AUMOVIO's value strategy as an independent technology company with my colleagues on the executive board," says Jutta Dönges, future CFO of AUMOVIO.

Jutta A. Dönges studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and received her doctorate in 2001 from the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. After holding management positions at international financial service providers, she became a member of the management committee of the Federal Financial Market Stabilization Agency in Frankfurt in 2015, which she took over as head in 2016. From 2018 to 2022, Dönges was Managing Director of Finanzagentur GmbH in Frankfurt, a financial services company in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 2023, she has been a member of the executive board and CFO of listed Uniper SE. She was also a long-standing member of the supervisory board of Commerzbank AG and is a member of the supervisory board of TUI AG. In addition, she is a member of the board of directors of Deutsches Aktieninstitut.

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