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Larry Page's flying car company Pivotal loses a top executive appeared on www.businessinsider.com by Hugh Langley.
Pivotal, the flying car company backed by Google cofounder Larry Page, has lost its chief information officer.
Celia Oakley, who was at the company for a decade and was one of its first 10 employees, departed the company in April, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person, whose identity Business Insider confirmed, asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters. Oakley also recently updated her LinkedIn page to reflect her departure. It now lists her as a consultant at the company.
A Pivotal spokesperson did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The exact reasons for Oakley’s departure could not be learned. She joined Pivotal, formerly known as Opener, in 2014, shortly after the company relocated from Canada to Palo Alto, California. She started the company’s flight test program and built many of the custom software tools that Pivotal went on to use.
The person familiar with Oakley’s departure said the reports had been disbursed to other teams, and the company did not immediately plan to hire a replacement.
Oakley’s departure comes as Pivotal prepares to ship its first eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) vehicle, the Helix. The company opened orders for the car, which starts at $190,000 and doesn’t require a pilot license to fly, back in January.
Pivotal’s website estimates that orders should ship between August and September. The company previously said shipments would begin on June 10, and it’s not clear if the new date means Pivotal has delayed the launch or is filling backorders.
The company recently secured another cash injection from Page on the condition it produces a certain number of Helix vehicles and secures a certain number of customer orders by the end of the year, the person familiar said.
Pivotal laid off nine employees, or 10% of its staff, in February, BI reported. The cuts were made to “make room for different skill sets and competencies,” per a memo sent by Pivotal CEO Ken Karklin to staff at the time.
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