Denise Fitzgerald

Denise Fitzgerald

With over 25 years of experience as a precision mechanical engineer, Denise Fitzgerald co-leads the Mechanical Engineering Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory which develops complex hardware prototype systems critical to national security. She also leads the Laboratory’s...
Darren Post

Darren Post

Mr. Post has served as Lordstown Motor’s Vice President of Engineering since November 2020. Mr. Post also was LMC’s Chief Engineer from November 2019 until October 2020.   Mr. Post is responsible for LMC’s total vehicle engineering, from architecture to release,...
Yoichi Sugimoto

Yoichi Sugimoto

Yoichi Sugimoto leads Honda’s automated vehicle program as executive chief engineer of the Innovative Research Excellence Division of Honda R&D Co., Ltd. based in Tochigi, Japan. Sugimoto joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd. in 1986 and began his career in the Tochigi...
Jay Joseph

Jay Joseph

Jay Joseph is the vice president of Marketing & Customer Experience for American Honda Motor Co., Inc., (AHM) overseeing marketing and public relations for both the Honda and Acura automobile brands as well as the company’s customer experience initiatives. Joseph...
Sue Bai

Sue Bai

Sue Bai is a chief engineer and division director of Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. Bai’s areas of responsibility include research related to wireless communication for in-vehicle navigation systems, telematics system design and development, and connected and...
Reuben Sarkar

Reuben Sarkar

Reuben Sarkar serves as the President and CEO for the American Center for Mobility (ACM) where he oversees ACM’s 500-acre Smart Mobility Test Center. He has more than two decades of experience in sustainable transportation in corporate, government, and entrepreneurial...
Edward Straub

Edward Straub

Edward Straub is the vice president of land systems for SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (SAE ITC) and the director of SAE International’s office of automation.  He has served in previous roles related to automated vehicle technologies as a technical program...
Dr. Joachim Taiber

Dr. Joachim Taiber

Born and raised in Germany, Dr. Taiber enjoyed his academic training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland, where he first graduated with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1991 and then completed his PhD degree in...