LOS ANGELES, JAN 23, 2020 – Faraday Future (FF), a California-based global shared intelligent mobility ecosystem company, today announced the appointment of Benedikt Hartmann as senior vice president, Global Supply Chain as it continues to bolster its leadership team and secure funding for the planned delivery of its first ultra-luxury production vehicle FF 91 in 2020.
January 23, 2020
Faraday Future Appoints Benedikt Hartmann as Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Benedikt comes to FF with over 30 years of experience at BMW where he led several purchasing and supplier initiatives, including the successful launches of BMW’s 5-series, X3, 3-series, and X2. Furthermore, Benedikt owns a strong professional background in China, where he was responsible for the entire global supply chain of BMW-Brilliance (BBA) for a number of years.
Upon his recent appointment as FF’s new Global CEO late last year, Dr. Carsten Breitfeld stated that personnel changes will be part of a series of key adjustments in strengthening the management team, accelerating product delivery planning, R&D and operational cost reduction, and most importantly, fundraising and strengthening FF’s financing strategy. In addition, Bob Kruse joined FF recently as senior vice president, Product Execution (Engineering and Manufacturing) with over 30 years of experience at GM and other consulting and start-up companies. Bob also served as CTO at both Karma and Qoros to lead all product development and advanced technology.
“The joining of new talents, especially top industry leaders like Benedikt and Bob are key to the success of FF’s next-stage of product delivery and funding. At CES 2020 earlier this month, we showed our unbeatable capability in range, product technologies, and cabin experience. It also showed the world how close to production we truly are. Now it is time for us to focus on supply chain and manufacturing production, so we can deliver FF 91 to our global customers,” said Carsten, FF’s Global CEO.
According to the new plan, FF 91 will kick off its delivery in approximately 9 months following the closing of successful equity funding. The newly announced FF 81 EV and development preparation for future models and next-generation core technologies will be completed as soon as possible. FF will target an IPO within 12-15 months following the conclusion of equity financing. To fulfill the new plan, FF will integrate all internal and external resources to facilitate its equity financing efforts.
“I’m confident that with this new leadership initiative I’m implementing, along with the retention of a talented core of executives, FF will continue to build upon the original vision of FF and successfully build the unique products, push forward our class-leading technology and reinforce the highly skilled people that make up FF,” added Carsten.
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