Biography

Julia Steyn, an independent director, has served as a director on our Board since April 2021. Ms. Steyn has served as Chief Commercial Officer at the investment firm VectoIQ since September 2020. In addition, Ms. Steyn has been a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, since May 2019, where she focuses on the mobility space and corporate innovation and serves as an advisor to several venture capital organizations. Ms. Steyn previously served as CEO of Bolt Mobility, a personal transportation company, from December 2019 through August 2020, and was a member of Bolt Mobility’s Board from August 2020 to June 2021. From May 2019 to July 2022, Ms. Steyn was a Non-Executive Board Member of First Group PLC, a multinational transport group that operates transport services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States. Previously, Ms. Steyn worked for almost a decade at General Motors, a vehicle manufacturer, where she was the founder and CEO of Maven, the shared mobility marketplace owned by General Motors. Ms. Steyn joined General Motors in 2012 as Vice President, Corporate Development and Global Mergers & Acquisitions. Before joining General Motors, Ms. Steyn was Vice President and co-managing director for the corporate development group of Alcoa, an aluminum industrial corporation, and she also has worked at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, in key positions in London, Moscow and New York. Earlier in her career, she was a business analyst at A.T. Kearney, a consulting firm. Ms. Steyn currently serves as a director of two private companies, Commonwealth Rolled Products, a leader in the manufacture and sale of aluminum rolled products, since October 2022, and of Oxa Autonomy Limited, an autonomous vehicle software company, since October 2024. Ms. Steyn has a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and an M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago.