DEUTZ Aktiengesellschaft announced that Dr. Petra Mayer to join the Board of Management as COO on November 1, 2022. She will be responsible for the new operations resort The Supervisory Board of DEUTZ AG is continuing its restructuring of the Board of Management. Dr. Petra Mayer will be joining the Board of Management on November 1, 2022.

As Chief Operating Officer (COO), Dr. Mayer will be responsible for the newly created operations division. Petra Mayer has been a Senior Vice President responsible for the Seat Belt Systems product line within the Passive Safety Systems division at ZF Friedrichshafen AG since 2019. After completing her engineering degree at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, she gained her doctorate in engineering sciences at the University of Stuttgart's process technology department in 1997.

Mayer then embarked on her professional career at the start-up Lundin Filter, before switching to the automotive industry in 200 initially at Continental, then at Autoliv. Since 2016, Mayer has held a number of management positions at ZF.