Hella have sold their front-camera software business to Volkswagen to raise around €100m. Hella suffered punishing consequences from the pandemic in the first quarter of their new 2020–21 financial year, and had already felt the effects of softening car markets in the previous financial year. CEO Rolf Breidenbach justified his company’s exit from the front…
Hector Fratty
Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.