Faraday Future Appoints Mr. Xuefeng Chen and Ms. Ke Sun to Board of Directors
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Faraday Future (NASDAQ: FFIE) (“FF” or “the Company”), a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, today announced that FF Global CEO Xuefeng (“XF”) Chen and Ms. Ke Sun have been appointed to FF’s Board of Directors, effective December 27, 2022. Mr. XF Chen and Ms. Ke Sun fill the vacancies on the Board due to the resignations of Dr. Carsten Breitfeld and Mr. Edwin Goh, who both stepped down from the Board effective as of December 26, 2022.
Ms. Ke Sun is a designee of FF Top Holding LLC (“FF Top”) pursuant to the Shareholder Agreement entered into by the Company and FF Top, dated July 21,2021. Mr. Edwin Goh was previously a designee of FF Top on the Board. The Company thanks Mr. Edwin Goh for his valuable service as a member of the Board.
Ms. Ke Sun served as the Chief Financial Officer of Yudo New Energy Auto Co., Ltd., an electric car original equipment manufacturer (“OEM”) in Fujian Province, China, from August 2020 to June 2022. From September 2017 to May 2019, Ms. Sun served as an independent financial adviser and assisted in the fundraising efforts of HoloMatic Technology Ltd., a start-up company that is developing Level 3 automatic driving by co-developing hardware and software with mainstream Chinese OEMs. From June 2016 to December 2017, Ms. Sun served as Vice President of Investor Relations of BAIC Motor Corporation Limited (“BAIC Motor”), a Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed company. BAIC Motor is an OEM affiliate of Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd., a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate. Ms. Sun also served as the Secretary of the board of directors of BAIC Motor from September 2016 to September 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Sun held several leadership roles at various Chinese companies, including at a Chinese internet company, a global media group listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, and a Chinese telecom operator. Ms. Sun graduated with a bachelor’s degree in International Financial Law from Dalian Maritime University. She also has a Board of Directors Secretary Certificate issued by the Shanghai Stock Exchange and a Fund Qualification Certificate issued by the Asset Management Association of China.
The Company expects to start production of a saleable FF 91 Futurist at the end of March 2023, with deliveries before the end of April, subject to the timely availability of additional funding, and receipt of shareholder approval for a sufficient increase in FFIE’S authorized shares. The Company continues to make progress with testing and validation of the FF 91 Futurist through the Product and Technology Generation 2.0 program (PT Gen 2.0).
The Company also recently announced it has completed manufacturing milestone #6, the completion of construction and equipment installation in vehicle assembly areas. This marks six of the seven milestones (the 7th milestone being SOP) that FF laid out late in 2021 to mark its manufacturing achievements towards the start of production of the FF 91 Futurist.
Users can preorder an FF 91 Futurist via the FF Intelligent App or through our website (English): https://www.ff.com/us/preorder/ or (Chinese): https://www.ff.com/cn/preorder/
Download the new FF Intelligent App (English): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1454187098 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faradayfuture.online, (Chinese): http://appdownload.ff.com
ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE
Faraday Future is a class-defining luxury electric vehicle company. The Company has pioneered numerous innovations relating to its products, technology, business model, and user ecosystem since inception in 2014. Faraday Future aims to perpetually improve the way people move by creating a forward-thinking mobility ecosystem that integrates clean energy, AI, the Internet, and new usership models. Faraday Future’s first flagship product is the FF 91 Futurist.
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