Chris Nevers is Rivian’s Senior Director of Policy. Chris joined Rivian in February of 2020 to help implement the policies needed to expand electrification and Rivian’s role in creating a sustainable future. In addition to overseeing Rivian US policy, Chris is on the...
Brad Markell works in the president’s office at the AFL-CIO, and serves as the Executive Director of both the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council and the Working for America Institute. He also leads the federation’s climate and energy policy work, and is a USTR cleared...
Michael J. Vinarcik is a Chief Systems Engineer at SAIC and an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy. He has thirty years of automotive and defense engineering experience. He received a BS (Metallurgical Engineering) from the Ohio State University, an...
Malcolm Panthaki has over 30 years of experience developing simulation environments to enhance the effectiveness of the product development process, bringing simulation safely and robustly to the entire enterprise. At Abaqus Inc. (acquired by Dassault Systemes)...
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...
Sam Abu-Hamdan has over 25 years of experience working in the automotive industry and is currently Head of NA Operations at Aras. He started as an engineering product designer working for a startup company then for a Tier 1 supplier, and then moved jobs to a...
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 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...
