Lilium welcomes Geoffrey Richardson as its new Chief Financial Officer

Lil­i­um has appoint­ed Geof­frey Richard­son as its new Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer, who will work with CEO Daniel Wie­gand on the Ger­man avi­a­tion fir­m’s next phase of accel­er­at­ed growth.  

Based in Sil­i­con Val­ley, Richard­son brings more than 20 years’ exper­tise in inter­na­tion­al finance, M&A, fundrais­ing and oper­a­tions to the role. He was pre­vi­ous­ly CFO at the autonomous car firm Cruise, and instru­men­tal in rais­ing over $7 bil­lion in fund­ing from Gen­er­al Motors, Hon­da and Soft­bank Vision Fund.

Pri­or to this, he was CFO at the dynam­ic glass com­pa­ny Kines­tral, and over­saw the company’s Series B and Series C fund­ing rounds. Richard­son also scaled Kines­tral from research and devel­op­ment to prod­uct sales, includ­ing build­ing a man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Tai­wan.

Geof­frey start­ed his career as an Attor­ney at glob­al law firm Shear­man & Ster­ling and then spent over a decade at Mor­gan Stan­ley and Gold­man Sachs in var­i­ous cap­i­tal mar­ket and invest­ment bank­ing roles, focus­ing on sus­tain­abil­i­ty and elec­tri­fi­ca­tion. 

Com­ment­ing on the appoint­ment, Lil­i­um CEO and Co-founder Daniel Wie­gand, said: “Geoffrey’s track record with high growth com­pa­nies com­bined with long term sus­tain­able vision and strong lead­er­ship made him the ide­al can­di­date for this key hire and we are so pleased to be wel­com­ing him to the team.

“He pro­vides exten­sive expe­ri­ence in lead­ing the finan­cial oper­a­tions of a for­ward-think­ing mobil­i­ty com­pa­ny, per­fect for our next phase of growth.”

Com­ment­ing on his appoint­ment, Richard­son added: “I am delight­ed to be join­ing the Lil­i­um team at such an excit­ing inflec­tion point for the busi­ness. I believe that Lil­i­um will have a pro­found impact on how peo­ple will move as well as mas­sive envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits and pos­i­tive soci­etal impact.” 

This lat­est news fol­lows on from the com­pa­ny announc­ing its first ver­ti­port loca­tion in the USA last week, and hopes to launch an all-elec­tric air mobil­i­ty net­work in Lake Nona, Orlan­do, by 2025.