Now Publicly Traded, Self-Driving Company Aurora Expands Finance Team
December 06 2021 - 12:15PM
Business Wire
Richard Tame appointed as Aurora’s Chief Financial Officer
The self-driving company Aurora, which recently went public and
is now listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker $AUR, is expanding its
finance team, strengthening its ability to deliver its self-driving
technology at commercial scale. Today, the company is announcing
the appointment of Richard Tame as the company’s Chief
Financial Officer (CFO). Tame, who most recently served as Aurora’s
VP of Finance, brings more than two decades of experience in public
accounting and leading finance teams at high-growth companies
including Lyft, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon.
“Over the last year, Richard’s leadership and financial
expertise has helped shepherd the company through several
acquisitions, expansion, and our path to being a public company.
Naming Richard as CFO recognizes the incredibly important role he
and his team have played in our growth and will continue to play as
we commercialize our products,” said Aurora CEO Chris
Urmson.
Following its successful public listing, Aurora expects to grow
its team and operations in order to deliver commercially viable
self-driving trucks and an autonomous ride-hailing product. In
addition to Tame’s appointment as CFO, Aurora has hired several key
finance leaders who will help lead Aurora as a public company and
deliver on its product.
Stacy Feit, VP of Investor Relations, leads Aurora’s
investor relations program, establishing strategic priorities and
engaging with the investment community. She brings over 20 years of
investor relations and capital markets experience to Aurora. Most
recently, she served as Vice President of Investor Relations at
Cheesecake Factory Inc., following nearly a decade at a leading
investor relations consulting firm.
Helen Chue, Senior Director of Business Risk and
Insurance, leads Aurora’s risk management and insurance strategy.
She was most recently at Facebook where she created the risk
management and insurance function, addressing data center
construction supply chain risks.
Katherine Jong, Senior Director, Financial Planning and
Analysis (FP&A), brings 15 years of global finance experience
building and scaling FP&A functions, advising business
strategy, and partnering with executive leaders through high growth
and large-scale transformation. Most recently, she was at Lyft
where she led the FP&A team that supported Technology,
Autonomous, and New Ventures.
In addition to expanding its finance team, Aurora most recently
announced bringing on a group of Pixar veterans to accelerate the
company’s simulation work.
About Aurora
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving
technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Founded in 2017 by experts
in the self-driving industry, Aurora is revolutionizing
transportation – making it safer, increasingly accessible, and more
reliable and efficient than ever before. Its flagship product, the
Aurora Driver, is a platform that brings together software,
hardware, and data services, to autonomously operate passenger
vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora
is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation
ecosystem including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, FedEx, and PACCAR. Aurora
tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Texas and has
offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA;
Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit
www.aurora.tech.
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