{"id":16906,"date":"2026-02-04T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/?p=16906"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:13:29","slug":"juan-manuel-molla-to-become-new-managing-director-lighting-at-forvia-hella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/juan-manuel-molla-to-become-new-managing-director-lighting-at-forvia-hella\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Manuel Moll\u00e1 to become new Managing Director Lighting at FORVIA HELLA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Shareholder Committee of FORVIA HELLA has appointed Juan Manuel Moll\u00e1 as the new Managing Director Lighting and member of the Management Board of FORVIA HELLA, effective 1 March 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responsibility for the Business Group Lighting is currently held on an interim basis by Bernard Sch\u00e4ferbarthold; Bernard Sch\u00e4ferbarthold will step down from the Management Board of FORVIA HELLA at the end of 15 February 2026.<br><br>Juan Manuel Moll\u00e1 (54) has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry and has held various leadership positions at different suppliers and manufacturers during this time. Most recently, the born Argentine served as Chief Commercial Officer at automotive supplier Marelli.<br><br>Juan Manuel Moll\u00e1 says: \u201cI am very grateful for the trust placed in me. The automotive industry is undergoing profound transformation \u2013 which will bring changes, but above all great opportunities for the future. Our goal is therefore to respond to new market requirements with agility and flexibility, to consistently strengthen our competitiveness, and to drive the development of lighting innovations that are technologically pioneering and yet affordable. The greatest asset of FORVIA HELLA\u2019s Lighting business is the expertise of our colleagues worldwide. I look forward to working with them to tackle these tasks and to shape the future of the Business Group Lighting together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shareholder Committee of FORVIA HELLA has appointed Juan Manuel Moll\u00e1 as the new Managing Director Lighting and member of the Management Board of FORVIA HELLA, effective 1 March 2026. Responsibility for the Business Group Lighting is currently held on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,24,1133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16909,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions\/16909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}