Deepak Ahuja
Former CFO of Tesla and Verily will be a part of Zipline’s Leadership Team as the Company Continues Global Expansion of Instant Delivery and Logistics Service
Zipline, the worldwide chief in on the spot supply, as we speak introduced {that a} world-class chief will be a part of the corporate’s management staff to usher in its subsequent stage of development.
Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest on the spot logistics and supply system for companies, governments and customers. Zipline is reworking the best way items transfer, from powering Rwanda’s nationwide blood supply community and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to offering on-demand dwelling supply for e-commerce, to enabling healthcare suppliers to deliver care on to U.S. properties. The know-how is advanced however the concept is easy: a teleportation service that delivers what you want, while you want it. Through its know-how, the corporate is decarbonizing supply, reducing street congestion and decreasing fossil gasoline consumption and air air pollution, whereas offering equitable entry for billions of individuals and constructing a extra resilient world provide chain.
Deepak Ahuja will be a part of Zipline as its first-ever Chief Business and Financial Officer on September 30. Ahuja brings greater than 20 years of economic management expertise to Zipline’s administration staff. In his new function, he will oversee all elements of Zipline’s world monetary operations, together with finance, accounting, investor relations and world gross sales, excluding the Africa area. Most just lately, Ahuja was the CFO at Verily Life Sciences. Prior to that, he was the CFO of Tesla the place, amongst many issues, he oversaw the corporate’s rise to profitability.
“Rarely do I see this level of disruption and impact paired with the world-class technology that Zipline’s team is building,” Ahuja mentioned. “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 will be a part of Zipline at a pivotal time in its development. Zipline was working in three nations firstly of 2021. The firm has since expanded to 4 new nations, started delivering new classes of merchandise within the human and animal well being, e-commerce and meals sectors, and doubled the scale of the inhabitants that it might probably serve. In addition to coming into new markets, Zipline has grown its enterprise within the nations the place it already operated to incorporate new supply classes and new areas. Globally, Zipline operates in three continents and completes a supply each two minutes. It additionally just lately obtained FAA Part 135 approval for its long-range drone supply service within the U.S.
“Deepak brings decades of experience helping to build revolutionary and disruptive companies in the transportation and health sectors,” mentioned Keller Rinaudo, CEO and co-founder of Zipline. “He embodies our values as a leader and shares 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’s track record will have a massive impact as we continue to expand our footprint, support new categories, and build a business for the long-term.”
In addition to Ahuja, Zipline just lately added its first-ever Chief Marketing Officer, Ashley Chandler, to its rising govt staff. Chandler joined Zipline on the finish of July and was beforehand the CMO of Color Health throughout the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before that, she led advertising and marketing at Stripe and spent greater than 10 years at Google the place she oversaw model advertising and marketing for Google Cloud.
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 occasions 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 response to firm estimates. The firm’s on the spot logistics system at present helps the medical, well being and retail sectors, delivering blood, vaccines, COVID provides, prescriptions, e-commerce objects, merchandise that assist human and animal well being, and meals. To be taught extra about Zipline, go to flyzipline.com/.
About Zipline
Zipline is the worldwide on the spot logistics chief who transforms logistics methods in order that they will 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, world corporations and main healthcare and pharmaceutical corporations.
