Petra Ehmann

Petra Ehmann has been Chief Innovation Officer of Ringier AG since July 1, 2022. Ehmann began her impressive career at the technology company Google 2013. Most recently, she served as the global lead for product partnerships for Google Maps’ augmented reality products. Before that, she drove new EMEA partnerships in Google’s Emerging Business Development unit Ads & Commerce as well as Google Maps in EMEA and Google Finance in EMEA and APAC. In 2021, Ehmann joined the board of directors at Bossard, a publicly traded family-owned Swiss company. She has also been a board member at the Technorama foundation since 2020. In addition, as a board member of We Shape Tech, she advocates for more diversity in the tech industry and is a member of the advisory board of Ringier’s EqualVoice initiative, which aims at improving the visibility of women in media. Ehmann grew up in Bolivia and received her Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich and her Master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in Silicon Valley. From early on, she began working across a diverse set of cultures around the globe including for the technology manufacturer Bosch in Mexico, the construction tools manufacturer Hilti in China and the internet startup Kekanto in Brazil.