SpaceX and GoPro Executives Join Luminar
August 01 2023 - 2:57PM
Business Wire
Emily Shanklin Joins as Senior VP of
Marketing
Kevin Hinge Joins as Executive VP of
Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality
Luminar (Nasdaq: LAZR), a leading global automotive technology
company, today announced two new key executives have decided to
join Luminar.
- Emily Shanklin most recently served as the senior most
marketing executive at SpaceX. Prior to joining Luminar, she spent
15 years at SpaceX, leading an Emmy-award winning team responsible
for inspiring the public around the company’s efforts to further
human exploration of space. Reporting directly to Gwynne Shotwell
and Elon Musk, Shanklin provided leadership across all aspects of
the marketing & communications function. She will be joining
Luminar to help drive and scale its vision to democratize
next-generation safety and autonomy, and will report to the Founder
and CEO, Austin Russell.
- Kevin Hinge most recently served as the chief supply chain
officer at GoPro, successfully developing, building, and shipping
millions of action cameras annually in markets across the globe
while substantially costing-down the supply chain. Kevin is joining
Luminar to consolidate and scale its manufacturing, supply chain,
and quality operations, and will also report to the Founder and
CEO, Austin Russell.
“Kevin has an outstanding track record of execution, value
engineering, and driving efficiency gains for supply chains at
global technology companies, including most recently high-volume
optical cameras with GoPro. Many of the same principles and
efficiencies from his prior supply chain and engineering leadership
can be applied to Luminar, as we scale our high-volume production
facilities in Mexico and Asia to deliver on our production vehicle
models from our partners. Kevin will play a pivotal role in helping
Luminar achieve our profitability targets,” said Austin Russell,
Founder and CEO of Luminar.
He added “Inspiring others around the impact of SpaceX’s efforts
on the future of human space exploration was a key driver for the
company’s mission, and it’s clear Emily knocked that out of the
park. Similarly, at Luminar she will be working to distill our
advanced lidar and software/AI technology for the public, working
collaboratively with our automotive partners to realize our higher
vision of eradicating vehicle accidents.”
About Emily Shanklin: As Luminar’s senior vice president
of marketing, she is responsible for building and elevating the
Luminar brand at global scale, proportionate to the impact Luminar
is driving for the world. During her 15-year tenure, Shanklin
helped transition SpaceX from a little-known aerospace company to
one of the world’s most recognized technology brands with over 50
million followers across the company’s social media platforms.
Shanklin holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and
earned her MBA at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
About Kevin Hinge: As Luminar’s executive vice president
of manufacturing, supply chain and quality, he is responsible for
overall supply chain and manufacturing execution, including
strategic sourcing, product quality, and scaling the company’s
contract manufacturing partnerships to new heights. Prior to
joining Luminar, Hinge served as chief supply chain officer at
GoPro, leading global manufacturing as well as engineering and
technical operations spanning its supply chain, global fulfillment,
logistics, quality, safety, and compliance. Prior to joining GoPro,
Hinge held executive operations and supply chain roles at companies
ranging from startups to conglomerates, including Nokia, Smartaics,
and Enecsys. Hinge also previously operated his own design company
working in numerous product domains, including medical,
aeronautical, automotive, and consumer devices.
About Luminar:
Luminar is a global automotive technology company ushering in a
new era of vehicle safety and autonomy. For the past decade,
Luminar has built an advanced hardware and software/AI platform to
enable its more than 50 industry partners, including the majority
of global automotive OEMs. From consumer vehicle programs with
Volvo Cars and Mercedes-Benz to technology partnerships including
NVIDIA and Mobileye, Luminar is poised to be the first automotive
technology company to enable next-generation safety and autonomous
capabilities for global production vehicles. For more information
please visit www.luminartech.com.
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