Eviation Announces Latest Executive Leadership Including “Coup of Andre Stein as New CEO”

Evi­a­tion announced late last week, the sur­pris­ing news that Eve Air Mobil­i­ty CEO, Andre Stein, has left the Embraer com­pa­ny after 25 years and join­ing it as the new CEO. To add to the sur­prise, Stein co-Found­ed Eve. This is a coup for Evi­a­tion and its all-elec­tric air­craft Alice and should assist the com­pa­ny through the next tricky stages of devel­op­ment.

A press release explains, “Stein is a sea­soned leader with a proven track record in prod­uct devel­op­ment, lead­ing the Embraer E2 prod­uct and mar­ket strat­e­gy from def­i­n­i­tion to cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. At Eve, he also led the company’s indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion strat­e­gy, part­ner­ships and sales, and cap­i­tal rais­ing, includ­ing Eve’s list­ing on the New York Stock Exchange. Stein’s 25 years’ expe­ri­ence and exper­tise in prod­uct devel­op­ment, mar­ket strat­e­gy and com­mer­cial exe­cu­tion will pro­pel Eviation’s Alice air­craft through next stages toward cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.”

He remarked, “Eviation’s mis­sion to rev­o­lu­tionise aero­space couldn’t be more impor­tant or more urgent. I have long admired the Alice – it’s a beau­ti­ful and inno­v­a­tive air­craft that is lead­ing the way in all-elec­tric flight. I look for­ward to work­ing with Eviation’s team to take Alice through the next phas­es of its devel­op­ment and bring it to mar­ket, so pas­sen­gers every­where can enjoy sus­tain­able and con­ve­nient com­muter air trav­el.” It is unclear why Stein left Eve.

Andre Stein

Anoth­er key lead­er­ship appoint­ment is Jeff Hur­ford, who joins Evi­a­tion as the company’s Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer (CFO). He comes from Cir­rus Air­craft where Hur­ford was Plat­form Direc­tor of the SR1X pro­gram. Pre­vi­ous­ly, he had held senior finan­cial and pro­gram man­age­ment roles in the aero­space indus­try, includ­ing 19 years at Gulf­stream Aero­space. Hur­ford brings exten­sive expe­ri­ence in lead­ing finan­cial and com­mer­cial over­sight of air­craft devel­op­ment pro­grams and prod­uct deliv­ery.

He com­ment­ed, “Evi­a­tion is enter­ing an excit­ing peri­od in its his­to­ry. As we move ever clos­er toward cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion of the Alice, I am thrilled to join Andre and the team to lead the aero­space industry’s tran­si­tion to sus­tain­abil­i­ty.”

Eviation’s Alice, a nine-pas­sen­ger air­craft, is the only flight-proven all-elec­tric com­muter air­craft of its size. Built from a clean-sheet design, Alice pro­duces zero car­bon emis­sions, with low­er oper­at­ing costs per flight hour com­pared to light jets or high-end tur­bo­props. Orders for Alice now exceed USD5 bil­lion.

For more infor­ma­tion 

www.eviation.com

(Top image: Cred­it — Evi­a­tion)

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