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Chief Technology Officer, Alastair Macintosh, Steps Down from Lilium

Lil­i­um sur­prised the eVTOL indus­try last week when news broke that the company’s Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer, Alas­tair McIn­tosh, is step­ping down from his impor­tant role “to pur­sue new ven­tures”, reports a press release.

McIn­tosh joined Lil­i­um in 2020. His lead­er­ship at the com­pa­ny was key in ensur­ing sev­er­al suc­cess­es, notably safe­ly fly­ing the tran­si­tion phase and high-speed flight with Lilium’s tech­nol­o­gy demon­stra­tors; over­see­ing the eVTOL through its pre­lim­i­nary and crit­i­cal design reviews; and deliv­er­ing EASA Design Orga­ni­za­tion Approval (DOA) in Novem­ber 2023.

He writes on his LinkedIn page, “It is with a mix of emo­tions that I announce that I have decid­ed to step down. Work­ing with the Lil­i­um team has been noth­ing short of inspir­ing. The jour­ney we’ve embarked upon togeth­er has been filled with remark­able chal­lenges and achieve­ments.”

And con­tin­ues, “It has been an hon­our to lead such a tal­ent­ed group of indi­vid­u­als who are com­mit­ted to push­ing the bound­aries of what is pos­si­ble and with whom I had the plea­sure to achieve remark­able things.” Klaus Roewe, Lil­i­um CEO, added, “I would like to thank Alas­tair for his sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion.”

Stephen Vel­la­cott

McIntosh’s replace­ment is Stephen Vel­la­cott, an expe­ri­enced aero­space-char­tered engi­neer with 40 years of indus­try expe­ri­ence, includ­ing senior engi­neer­ing roles at Leonar­do.

He joined Lil­i­um in 2020 as Chief Devel­op­ment Engi­neer and two years lat­er was appoint­ed Chief Engi­neer. Vel­la­cott is unique­ly posi­tioned to suc­ceed in lead­ing the engi­neer­ing team as Lil­i­um rapid­ly moves towards a first manned flight of its eVTOL Jet at the end of this year.

Roewe con­tin­ued, “With Stephen’s vast avi­a­tion expe­ri­ence, I am con­fi­dent that he will seam­less­ly tran­si­tion into the role and strength­en our posi­tion as a lead­ing com­pa­ny in elec­tric air mobil­i­ty.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://lilium.com/jet

(Top image: Alas­tair Mac­in­tosh)

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