Vertical Aerospace has announced three leadership hires.
Juan Carlos Sacristan has been appointed Chief Data & Information Officer to accelerate digital, data and AI capabilities; Richard Moore has been confirmed as Vice President, Powertrain, strengthening propulsion and energy system integration, and Ollie Roberts has been appointed Chief People Officer to lead people strategy and organisational scale-up.
Juan Carlos (“JC”) Sacristan will lead Vertical’s long-term data, digital and AI strategy, connecting information across design, procurement, testing, production and manufacturing. His remit includes building the digital backbone, advanced simulation and analysis required to enable Vertical to scale efficiently into service. He has held senior leadership roles at global organisations including CDIO at Abcam, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Adidas, Digital Global Lead at Nike and CIO at GE Gas Engines, alongside board advisory roles and experience founding and scaling start-ups.
Richard Moore leads a Powertrain engineering organisation spanning energy storage, battery management systems, electric propulsion units and charging. An aeronautics engineer, Richard is an experienced global battery expert with more than 35 years of experience in the industry. Previously a board member and Director of Propulsion and Executive Director Engineering at Lotus, he led the engineering of all sports cars, including the Evija electric hypercar. He was also Chief Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, where he led the electrification engineering for propulsion systems across all Jaguar and Land Rover product programmes, including the Jaguar I-Pace, the company’s first all-electric vehicle.
Ollie Roberts will lead all aspects of Vertical’s people strategy, including talent attraction and development, culture development, colleague engagement, organisational design and capability building – delivering a diverse, high-performing and future-ready organisation as Vertical advances toward certification and commercial operations.
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