Technology company Continental has appointed Ajay Kumar as Head of Human Relations, India. In this role, Ajay will overlook both the Automotive and Rubber Groups in India, covering over 8000 employees spread across 15 locations, 8 manufacturing plants and eight legal entities. In this role, Ajay will spearhead initiatives for building transformational leadership and a progressive work culture, and will lead deployment of solutions to enhance competence, performance, and employee engagement.

Ajay Kumar was previously heading HR for Continental's Technical Centre India (TCI), the in-house R&D center for Continental globally. Ajay was instrumental in leading TCI's rapid growth in India, with a current headcount of over 3000 engineers supporting all three automotive divisions of Continental, for global and regional markets. Today TCI is well on its way to become a center of competence for different technologies like Artificial Intelligence and ADAS technologies.

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