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Karma Automotive CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Liang Zhou is the Karma Automotive's CEO. Karma Automotive has 625 employees, of which 11 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Karma Automotive executive team is 27% female and 73% male.
  • 49% of the management team is White.
  • 12% of Karma Automotive management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 7% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Liang Zhou

CEO / President

Bernhard Koehler

Founder

Bernhard Koehler's LinkedIn

Bernhard Koehler is the Co-Founder of Fisker Automotive and leads as CEO of European and Mid East Operations. For more than 22 years. Bernhard Koehler held positions as BMW and Designworks USA where he served as Director of New Business Development at Ingeni, Ford Motor Company's design center in London; as Director of Business and Operations for Ford's Global Advanced Design Studio in Irvine California. In 2005, Bernhard co-founded Fisker Coachbuild with Henrik Fisker.

Kevin Zhang

Chief Technology Officer

Kevin Zhang's LinkedIn

Kevin Zhang is a Chief Technology Officer at Karma Automotive and is based in Irvine, California. He has worked as Global Battery Electric Vehicles - a Chief Engineer at FORD MOTOR CO.

Alan Yuan

Chief Revenue Officer

Alan Yuan's LinkedIn

Alan Yuan is a Co-Founder at Lucis Technologies, Principal at Buenavista Renewables, and Chief Revenue Officer at Karma Automotive and is based in Irvine, California. He has worked as Sr. VP and Chief Sales and Marketing officer at Astronergy Solar; Sr. Sales Director, APAC / Deputy General Manager of ISSI-China at INTEGRATED SILICON SOLUTION INC; and Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Solarfun Power Holding.

Ashoka Achuthan

Chief Financial Officer

Ashoka Achuthan's LinkedIn

Achuthan comes to Karma from the Canadian-based Westport Fuel Systems Inc., a global leader in natural gas transportation technologies, where he was CFO and a senior advisor since 2013. In this role, he oversaw all operational finance activities within Westport, including financial management of ongoing business operations as well as investments; financial planning, forecasting and reporting; and developing and tracking key performance metrics. Prior to Westport, Achuthan spent 23 years at Siemens AG in Asia, Europe and North America, where his last position was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He served in similar CFO roles at Cooper Industries Inc., ATC Technology Corp., and Coda Automotive.

Greg Tarr

Chief Strategy Officer

Greg Tarr's LinkedIn

Chief Strategy Officer Indigo Technologies Ex CSO/Board Member Karma Auto, Axiata Digital, Glympse & CSO Automatic Labs

Jeffery Wawrzyniak

Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)

Jeffery Wawrzyniak's LinkedIn

Executive leader and strategic business partner with 20+ years of in-house experience in publicly traded, private equity and family owned companies.

Practice areas include:

• Antitrust • Audit • Benefits • Banking • Contracts • Corporate Governance/Entity Formation

• EEOC/Employment/HR • Environmental • Ethics & Compliance/Chief Compliance Officer

• Finance/Capital Funding •General Counseling (Board, Executive Team, International, Sr. Management)

• Insurance/Enterprise Risk Management • Intellectual Property/Patents • International**

• Law Department Administration • Licensing • Litigation • Mergers & Acquisitions

• Real Estate • SEC reporting • Sarbanes-Oxley compliance • Sustainability • Tax

• Trade Compliance

** Geography - During my career I have been responsible for matters in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico as well as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Panama, Poland, Russia, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela. My various roles have included regional counsel responsibilities in Eastern Europe and Latin America.

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Joseph Damour

CFO

Joseph Damour's LinkedIn

Joseph DaMour is an international C-level executive with extensive sales, marketing, manufacturing, and international experience in growth and restructuring settings. He is the senior vice president of finance at McGraw Hill Financial. DaMour’s work experience includes over 20 years at executive level, over 10 years at C-level, and more than 15 years living and working outside the United States in Western Europe, Brazil, and China. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science as well as an MBA in finance from the University of Michigan.

Mikael Elley

Chief of Staff (Operations)

Mikael Elley's LinkedIn

As Chief of Staff, Elley supports Karma’s global expansion plans, corporate structure, and vehicle and technology programs. He is responsible for leading the Office of the CEO and Operations including, Manufacturing, Logistics, Purchasing, Human Resources, Administration, IT, Legal Compliance and audit, and intellectual property. Elley has in the past also been responsible for Strategy, Business Development, Enterprise Program Management and Planning.

Ray Lane

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio
Bernhard Koehler

Founder

Bernhard Koehler's LinkedIn

Bernhard Koehler is the Co-Founder of Fisker Automotive and leads as CEO of European and Mid East Operations. For more than 22 years. Bernhard Koehler held positions as BMW and Designworks USA where he served as Director of New Business Development at Ingeni, Ford Motor Company's design center in London; as Director of Business and Operations for Ford's Global Advanced Design Studio in Irvine California. In 2005, Bernhard co-founded Fisker Coachbuild with Henrik Fisker.

Karma Automotive board members

Name & TitleBio
Ray Lane

Board Member

Karma Automotive leadership demographics

Karma Automotive gender distribution in management team

  • The Karma Automotive executive team is 27% female and 73% male.
  • Karma Automotive is 19% female and 81% male company-wide.
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Male
73%
Company-wide: 81%
Female
Female
27%
Company-wide: 19%

Karma Automotive executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Karma Automotive executive officers is White.
  • 49% of the management team is White.
  • 30% of Karma Automotive's management is Asian.
  • 12% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 45% of employees are White.
  • 20% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 19% of employees are Asian.
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