Ashely Chandler
Zipline, the international chief in immediate supply, immediately introduced that two world-class leaders will be part of the firm’s management staff to usher in its subsequent stage of progress.
Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest immediate logistics and supply system for companies, governments and customers. Zipline is remodeling the approach items transfer, from powering Rwanda’s nationwide blood supply community and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to offering on-demand residence supply for Walmart, to enabling healthcare suppliers to convey care on to U.S. properties. The know-how is complicated however the thought is easy: a teleportation service that delivers what you want, if you want it. Through its know-how, the firm is decarbonizing supply, lowering street congestion and decreasing fossil gas consumption and air air pollution, whereas offering equitable entry for billions of individuals and constructing a extra resilient international provide chain.
Deepak Ahuja will be part of Zipline as its first ever Chief Business and Financial Officer on September 30. Ahuja brings greater than 20 years of monetary management expertise to Zipline’s administration staff. In his new position, he’ll oversee all points of Zipline’s international monetary operations, together with finance, accounting, investor relations and international gross sales excluding the Africa area. Most not too long ago, Ahuja was the CFO at Verily Life Sciences. Prior to that, he was the CFO of Tesla the place, amongst many issues, he oversaw taking the firm public and its rise to profitability.
“Rarely do I see this level of disruption and impact paired with the world-class technology that the team is building,” mentioned Ahuja. “The company’s instant logistics solution was born out of a deep understanding of what their customers need, and has already delivered incredible value to people around the world by saving lives, time, money and reducing the environmental impact of deliveries on the planet. It’s an exciting time for Zipline, and I’m thrilled to join the team as we keep building to offer these solutions at a massive scale.”
Ahuja joins the firm’s rising government staff alongside newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer Ashely Chandler. Chandler began at the finish of July and beforehand was the CMO of Color Health throughout the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Head of Marketing of Stripe. Prior to that, Chandler spent greater than 10 years at Google the place she oversaw model advertising and marketing for Google Cloud.
Ahuja and Chandler be part of Zipline at a pivotal time in its progress. Zipline was working in three international locations at the begin of 2021. The firm has since expanded to 4 new international locations, started delivering new classes of merchandise in the human and animal well being, e-commerce, and meals sectors, and doubled the dimension of the inhabitants that it could serve. In addition to coming into new markets, Zipline has grown its enterprise in the international locations the place it has operated to incorporate new supply classes and new areas. Globally, Zipline operates in three continents and completes a supply each two minutes. It additionally not too long ago acquired FAA Part 135 approval for its long-range drone supply service in the U.S.
“Deepak and Ashley bring decades of experience helping to build revolutionary and disruptive companies in the transportation, health and financial sectors,” mentioned Keller Rinaudo, CEO and co-founder of Zipline. “They both embody our values as leaders and share our vision and passion for building the world’s first instant delivery system that serves all people equally. We are scaling quickly and did as many deliveries last month as we did in the entirety of 2019. Deepak and Ashley’s track records will have a massive impact as we continue to expand our footprint, support new categories, and build a business for the long-term.”
To date, Zipline has delivered greater than 380,000 packages with greater than 3.5 million merchandise, and flown greater than 25 million autonomous miles. Each flight produces about 30 instances much less CO2 emissions per mile than a mean electrical car and as much as 98% much less CO2 emissions than a combustion engine car, in line with firm estimates. The firm’s immediate logistics system at present helps the medical, well being and retail sectors, delivering blood, vaccines, COVID provides, prescriptions, e-commerce gadgets, merchandise that assist human and animal well being, and meals. To study extra about Zipline, go to flyzipline.com/.
About Zipline
Zipline is the international immediate logistics chief who transforms logistics programs in order that they’ll serve all individuals equally. We design, manufacture and function the world’s largest automated on-demand supply system, which thus far has made greater than 380,000 business deliveries containing greater than 3.5 million merchandise, and decreased supply emissions by as much as 98% in comparison with conventional strategies. Zipline is the trusted accomplice for governments, international corporations and main healthcare and pharmaceutical corporations. For extra data, go to flyzipline.com.
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