Dr. Dietmar Ley has been the CEO of Basler AG since February 2000. He is responsible for research and development, innovation and the product business. Dietmar Ley joined Basler in 1993 after earning his doctorate in computer vision and was appointed to Basler’s executive management team in 1996. Prior to this, he worked for Philips GmbH, Siemens AG and Alcatel AG. Dietmar Ley also addresses vision technology topics outside of the company: from 2003 to 2018 he was a member of the Management Board of the VDMA’s Machine Vision department - the largest German federation of vision technology companies. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Management Board of the Robotics & Automation department of the VDMA.