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Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, today announced Teresa Covington as its new chief financial officer. Covington will join Lightning’s senior leadership team and lead the company’s finance and investor relations teams as it transitions to being a public company as a result of its announced business combination with GigCapital3, Inc. (“GigCapital3”) (NYSE: GIK).
Teresa Covington, CFO of Lightning eMotors. (Photo: Business Wire)
Most recently, Covington served as chief financial officer for asTech, a leading cloud-based automotive technology and diagnostic services provider. Prior to joining asTech, Covington was the head of the global finance organization at AeroVironment, a publicly traded technology company in aerospace and defense that designs, manufactures and distributes unmanned aerial vehicles. The
Dawood Al-Dawood has been a Saudi Aramco vice president since 2008. He is currently vice president of the Northern Area Oil Operations.
Al-Dawood recently won the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award of S&P Global Platts, the credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics provider.
The Aramco executive has 37 years’ experience in the energy business, with extensive knowledge across the upstream, downstream and international operations.
In 1988, Al-Dawood received a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas in the US. In 2003, he joined Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he attended the Stanford executive program. In 2008, he obtained a master’s degree in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Sloan Fellow.
Power.
In concept, it seems like a good thing to have. But, before I get too far down the rabbit hole, let me say that power also waxes and wanes so be careful what you wish for because you may get it.
I have been on the top of the mountain, and I have also been a sherpa, schlepping for someone else. When you are the leader, expectations increase. To complicate things, sometimes you are perceived to have more power than you really do, and people ask you to or expect you to do more than you really can. If you want to be lead dog, you are supposed to know where you are dragging the sled.