Nico Wägerle is the CEO and co-founder of Certivity. He is responsible for Business Development, Sales, Cooperations, Finance & Investment, and HR & Legal. After his legal studies in Konstanz and Cardiff, he began his career at Daimler Financial Services AG in the legal department as a lawyer, where he was responsible for IT service and outsourcing topics. Following a move to Daimler AG, Mr. Wägerle advised on data protection in vehicles and connectivity technologies. Through another internal transfer, he became part of an interdisciplinary agile organization for the implementation and execution of agile legal consulting in development, focusing on product liability, road traffic law, homologation, and data protection for automated vehicle technologies (L3 and Urban L4).

In 2019, Mr. Wägerle joined Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH in Munich as Senior Legal Counsel. There, he was jointly responsible for legal advice on the merger of AID and Argo AI. Later on we took over as an interim general counsel from Argo / AID after the merger. Additionally, he established the department for Government Affairs and participated in industry associations (VDA, ACEA, and Bitkom) regarding the legal design of autonomous driving laws, such as the latest L4 legislation in Germany and the EU.