Jennifer Wahnschaff

Jen Wahnschaff is Vice President of Sales at Qnovo with more than 20 years of experience in Automotive Products and Software (SaaS).She has worked with all the major OEMs and Tier 1 companies and brings a wealth of experience in the automotive industry.

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Jen supports Qnovo to build upon relationships with key industry partners, advance market knowledge and expand the sales opportunity pipeline. She brings with her experience in both start-ups and traditional automotive business and how they can work together to complement each other. Jennifer was recognized in 2016 by DBusiness as one of Detroit's most powerful women, by Automotive News in 2020 as one of the top 100 women in Automotive and featured by SAE in “the Road Ahead.” She is passionate about the intersection of the connected vehicle, software defined vehicle and electrification. Jen is an accomplished global executive and is an active mentor and coach.

Prior to Qnovo, Jen led the Product and Strategy team at Clearmotion to transition from innovation to first award business. At Continental, Jen was the Senior Vice President of Intelligent Transportation Systems based out of San Jose, CA. There, she launched multiple global SaaS business opportunities for products such as Key as a Service, eHorizon and Telematic Fleet Services.

Jen holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Michigan State University.