Biography

Dino Xykis was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer on April 24, 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Xykis served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer from June 1, 2022 to April 24, 2023. Mr. Xykis was also appointed as the Company’s Chief Technical Officer on March 15, 2021. He is responsible for the oversight of the Company’s advanced product development, engineering design and analysis, on-highway engineering, applied engineering, emissions and certification, Waterford, Michigan engineering operations, program management and product strategic planning. Since joining the Company in 2010 and until his appointment as Chief Technical Officer in March 2021, Mr. Xykis served as Vice President of Engineering for the Company. He has more than 30 years of professional experience in multi-disciplined engineering areas including senior management and executive positions at various companies including Cummins Inc., a publicly traded company on the NYSE, and Generac Power Systems, a publicly traded company on the NYSE. Mr. Xykis also served as Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at the Milwaukee School of Engineering and previously served on the audit and compensation committees of the board of directors of Image Sensing Systems, a publicly traded company on NASDAQ, from 1996 to 2001. Mr. Xykis has also served on the advisory board of CEGE, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota for eight years.

Mr. Xykis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Structural Engineering, a Master’s degree in Vibration/Dynamics, and a Ph. D. in Structural/Applied Mechanics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.