We're excited to welcome Elisa de Martel to Wayve as Chief Financial Officer!
With over two decades of financial leadership experience in the technology and automotive sectors, including autonomous driving, Elisa will oversee Wayve's global finance organization as we enter the next phase of growth across our automotive and robotaxi businesses. Read more: https://lnkd.in/evxY4Tdk
Why this matters for talent
Wayve's own announcement of the CFO hire, alongside the TechCrunch coverage naming the January departure from Waymo, confirms Elisa de Martel's move is recent, and that Wayve is building out its executive bench ahead of what it calls its next phase of growth across automotive and robotaxi businesses. Wayve carries 163 openings on the board, and the mention of two lines of business, automotive licensing and robotaxi, is worth watching for whether hiring splits between them going forward.
Read the original LinkedIn post. Curated by Larry Sherwood Jr. from company announcements; analysis above is my own.