Steve Ivsan will function the corporate’s new chief procurement officer and can lead all buying actions in addition to high quality and the efficiency of the provision base.
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Lightning eMotors has introduced that Steve Ivsan will function the corporate’s new chief procurement officer and can lead all buying actions in addition to high quality and the efficiency of the provision base.
“Steve has broad expertise in provide chain and operations management roles within the electrical car trade,” stated Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors. “He’ll lead our efforts so as to add new suppliers and manufacturing unit automation to help our manufacturing scale-up of purpose-built business electrical specialty autos.”
Ivsan will report back to Reeser and will likely be based mostly at Lightning’s headquarters in Loveland, Colorado. He holds a grasp’s diploma in automotive engineering from the College of Michigan and a bachelor’s diploma in mechanical engineering from Kettering College. His appointment is efficient instantly.
Ivsan was one of many co-founders of Byton, the place he served as chief procurement officer. Ivsan additionally served as chief procurement officer at Rivian and was the director of car buying at Tesla. Previous to that, he was with Continental, a world automotive and know-how firm, for 12 years, and with Chrysler Company for six years.
“Lightning is a frontrunner within the business EV house,” Ivsan stated. “The corporate has an unbelievable group and terrific portfolio of merchandise, and I’m trying ahead to serving to them scale their operations, construct relationships with world-class suppliers, and provides prospects an expertise second-to-none.”
Ivsan is the third senior govt to be employed this 12 months by Lightning eMotors. In early January, Teresa Covington was named chief monetary officer. Final month, Kash Sethi joined Lightning to move up gross sales, advertising and enterprise improvement as the corporate’s chief income officer.
