Leadership & Governance

Daniel Ninivaggi, an independent director, has served on our Board as a director and Non-Executive Chairman since April 2021. Mr. Ninivaggi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Icahn Enterprises L.P. (IEP), the principal investment vehicle of Carl Icahn, between 2010 and 2014. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Icahn Automotive Group, LLC, a leading automotive parts distribution, maintenance and repair company with over 2,000 locations, and a Managing Director of IEP, from March 2017 through August 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Ninivaggi was the Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corp. (‘‘Federal-Mogul’’), an $8 billion automotive and commercial vehicle supplier. From August 2021 until March 2024, Mr. Ninivaggi served as the Chief Executive Officer (until July 2023) and subsequently the Executive Chairman of Lordstown Motors Corporation, an electric vehicle automaker. On June 27, 2023, Lordstown Motors filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Previously, from January 2011 to May 2012, Mr. Ninivaggi served as the Interim President and Interim Chief Executive Officer of Tropicana Entertainment Inc., a company primarily engaged in the business of owning and operating casinos, hotels and resorts. From 2003 until 2009, Mr. Ninivaggi held a variety of senior executive positions at Lear Corporation, a global Tier 1 supplier of automotive seating, interior, and electrical and electronic power management systems and components, including most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. From 1992 through May 2003, Mr. Ninivaggi was an attorney in private practice at the international law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP specializing in corporate law, including serving as partner from 1998. Prior to Winston & Strawn LLP, Mr. Ninivaggi was an attorney in private practice at the international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1991 through 1992. Mr. Ninivaggi received a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.B.A from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from Stanford University School of Law.

Oliver Rabiller has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer as well as a member of our Board since our spin-off from Honeywell International Inc. (‘‘Honeywell’’) in 2018. Prior to the spin-off, Mr. Rabiller served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Transportation Systems division at Honeywell since July 2016. From July 2014 to July 2016, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Transportation Systems for High Growth Regions, Business Development, and Aftermarket. From January 2012 to July 2014, he served as Vice President, General Manager of Transportation Systems Aftermarket. Earlier positions within Honeywell included roles as the Vice President of Sourcing for Transportation Systems for three years; Vice President, European Sales and Customer Management and Director of Marketing and Business Development for the European region. He joined Honeywell in 2002 as Senior Program Manager and Business Development Manager for Turbo Technologies EMEA. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from École Centrale Nantes and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.

Paul Camuti, an independent director, has served as a director on our Board since February 2024. Mr. Camuti formerly served as Executive Vice President, Chief Technology, Sustainability, and Strategy Officer of Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a manufacturing company focused on heating, ventilation and air conditioning and refrigeration systems, overseeing the company’s technical strategy, innovation practices and sustainability from February 2020 to December 2024. Prior to Trane Technologies' separation of Ingersoll Rand, a global provider of flow creation and industrial products, Mr. Camuti held several senior executive positions of increasing responsibility at Ingersoll Rand, including Senior Vice President Innovation and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, since 2011. He joined Ingersoll Rand after having served in several senior technology and business leadership roles at Siemens AG. Mr. Camuti served as a director of The ExOne Company in 2021.

Joachim Drees, an independent director, has served on our Board since May 2024. Mr. Drees has served as Chief Executive Officer of Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH since October 2024 and has been investing in software-related start-up companies, particularly in the EV software charging space but also other industries, as a pre-seed, seed or pre-series A investor, since July 2020. From 2015 until July 2020, Mr. Drees served as CEO of MAN SE and MAN Truck & Bus SE, one of Europe’s largest players in the commercial vehicle industry. At the same time, Mr. Drees was also a member of the Executive Board of TRATON SE (formerly Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH), a commercial vehicle manufacturer, and held several non-executive director seats from 2015 to July 2020, including at Renk AG, a propulsion and drivetrain technology manufacturer, from 2017 to 2020, where he was also a member of the nomination and governance committee. Prior to that time, from 2012 to 2014, he was the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the executive board of Drees & Sommer AG, a European consulting, planning and project management enterprise with responsibility for Finance & Controlling, M&A, Human Resources, Administration and Internationalization Support. Between 2006 and 2012, Mr. Drees was an Operating Partner with Hg Capital, a private equity fund based in London and held several board positions in portfolio companies owned by Hg Capital. Mr. Drees held managerial positions in the Daimler Truck Group and at Mercedes-Benz Trucks, both commercial vehicle manufacturers, from 1996 to 2006, including as Commercial Director of the Gaggenau Transmissions Unit and as Head of Commercial Vehicle Controlling. He serves as a director of Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 Ltd., a special purpose acquisition corporation, since its initial public offering on December 20, 2021, where he also serves as the chair of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee. Previously, he studied business administration at the University of Stuttgart and received an M.B.A. from Portland State University.

D’aun Norman, an independent director, has served as a director on our Board since April 2021. Ms. Norman retired from Ernst & Young (EY), a leading accounting firm, as an audit partner in 2019, after over 30 years of assurance and advisory experience, including 16 years as a partner specializing in audits of publicly traded global automotive suppliers and other industrial companies. Ms. Norman’s key audit experiences include her work on Visteon Corporation, a global mobility technology company, from 2013 to 2019 following its spinoff from Ford Motor Company and bankruptcy emergence and including exit of interiors and climate businesses, electronics acquisition and shareholder distributions and repurchases; Federal-Mogul from 2006 to 2014 during its bankruptcy and upon emergence; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a manufacturer of automobile and truck tires, from 2008 to 2014 during merger negotiations; and Owens-Illinois, a leading glass bottle manufacturer, from 1988 to 2006 during the leveraged buyout and exit, including transition from public to private status and the subsequent IPO. In addition, Ms. Norman served as EY Michigan and Northwest Ohio Assurance People Leader and as EY Central Region ASC 606 Revenue Recognition Adoption Leader. She served as Chair of the Bowling Green State University Alumni Leadership Council, including on the Strategy and Nominating and Governance Committees. Ms. Norman serves as a director and chair of the Audit Committee of PHINIA Inc. (NYSE: PHIN), a developer of fuel systems and aftermarket solutions, since July 2023. Ms. Norman has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting from Bowling Green State University and attended the EY Executive Education program at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She is a Certified Public Accountant, NACD Certified Director and holds a CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute.

Robert Shanks, an independent director, has served as a director on our Board since April 2021. Mr. Shanks has 42+ years of experience in the automotive industry, including seven years served as Executive Vice President and CFO at Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), an automotive manufacturer, from April 2012 through May 2019. During some of his tenure as CFO, Mr. Shanks also oversaw Ford’s Corporate Strategy and the Ford Motor Credit Company. Mr. Shanks retired on January 1, 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Shanks was Vice President and controller at Ford, and also served as the company’s Chief Risk Officer. He was appointed a corporate officer of Ford in July 2004, when he was elected to the position of Vice President, Operations Support, Finance and Strategy, Ford of Europe and Premier Automotive Group (PAG). Prior to that, Mr. Shanks was CFO for PAG, as well as for Mazda Motor Corporation, a multinational automaker. In addition to other finance functions in Taiwan’s Ford Lio Ho Motor Company and business development activities in Ford’s Asia-Pacific operations. Mr. Shanks has a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.

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.

Steven Tesoriere, an independent director and designee of Oaktree, has served as a director on our Board since April 2021. Mr. Tesoriere joined Oaktree, a global asset management firm specializing in alternative investment strategies, in 2016, where he serves as a Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager. Prior to Oaktree, Mr. Tesoriere was Managing Principal and Portfolio Manager of Altai Capital Management, an investment manager he co-founded in 2009, which focused on investing in distressed debt and event-driven equities. Previously, Mr. Tesoriere worked at Anchorage Capital Group, a registered investment adviser, for six years, where he was a founding analyst. He began his career with Blackstone in the Restructuring and Reorganization Group, an alternative investment management company, before working at Goldman Sachs in distressed debt research. Mr. Tesoriere received a B.S. degree in Commerce with a concentration in finance from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.