Electric car manufacturer Faraday Future has lured a very big fish to its executive pond, hiring former
Ferrari executive Marco Mattiacci, a source told
Autoblog.
Business Insider also reported the move.
It’s unclear what role Mattiacci will have at Faraday, but he served with distinction at Ferrari. Between 2006 and 2014, he was the head of Ferrari North America and Ferrari Asia Pacific, though that success didn’t translate to
motorsports. Mattiacci succeeded Stefano Domenicali as team principal of Scuderia Ferrari in April 2014 and led the team to a fourth-place finish, behind
Mercedes,
Red Bull, and Williams. The Scuderia were not pleased
and Mattiacci resigned.
Faraday is no stranger to snagging talent from other automakers. It hired employees from
Ford,
GM, and
BMW and has done an especially good job of poaching talent from
Elon Musk. It lured
Tesla’s vice president of regulatory affairs and deputy general counsel,
James Chen, last month. Faraday hired the head of
Model S production, Dag Reckhorn, to serve as its global VP of manufacturing, and in April it brought in Tesla’s director of global supplier industrialization, Andrew De Haan, to run the Faraday’s Nevada factory.
Business Insider reports Faraday has even poached SpaceX employees. We expect more hiring from Faraday in the future, too. The company’s website is packed with California-based positions for everything from vehicle safety to autonomous driving to product planning.
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