Peter led the production and launch of a game-changing powertrain and devised global strategy during his 17-year tenure at Daimler Truck, including orchestrating their majority investment in Torc in 2019. His focus areas have included autonomous technology, electrification, connectivity, digital transformation, global product and platform management, medium and heavy truck engine production, plant management, and the Asian market. Before joining Daimler, Dr. Schmidt was a principal and consultant at McKinsey & Company serving the automotive industry.

In his 17+ years at Torc, Andrew has been instrumental in guiding the strategy towards the commercialization of autonomous vehicles. He believes the fastest way to successful implementation is through collaboration and is responsible for identifying industries that share Torc’s mission of driving the future of freight. Andrew has been able to create purposeful partnerships in markets that include trucking, mobility, mining, construction, and off-road vehicles. Since 2019, Andrew had led Torc’s commercial strategy, go-to-market approach and customer engagements in the trucking industry.

Andrew earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering degrees from Virginia Tech. He is a Certified SAFe® Agilist, and a graduate of several professional development programs including the Stanford Strategic Decision and Risk Management Certificate Program and The University of Chicago Booths Chief Revenue Officer program.

Felix Heide is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, Head of AI at Torc Robotics, Founder of self-driving vehicle startup Algolux (acquired by Torc Robotics), and previously worked at Nvidia. He is researching the theory and application of computational imaging and computer vision systems. Felix’s work lies at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, optimization, and computer vision. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.

Felix obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Siegen and was a postdoc at Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation won the Alain Fournier Dissertation Award and the SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award. He won the NSF CAREER Award 2021 and the Sony Young Faculty Award 2021. He won the Nvidia Graduate Fellowship Award in 2015; he was named a Packard Fellow in 2022 and a Sloan Research Fellow in 2023. Felix was named SIGGRAPH New Significant Researcher in 2023.

Richard has extensive experience in financial leadership, creating high performing teams, post-acquisition integration and driving significant change initiatives. Before Torc, Richard worked as CFO for various high-growth and impact companies developing profitable business strategies through forward focused thinking supported by data driven analytics. He worked for 26 years for GE and a GE spin-off working in primarily in finance with cross functional roles in rating agency relations, risk management and call center operations.

Sheila Scanlon is a seasoned product executive with over 20 years of experience leading strategy, development, and execution across the automotive and autonomous driving sectors. She has held key leadership roles at Forterra, Aptiv (now Motional), and HERE Technologies, where she consistently built high-performing teams and delivered innovative, market-aligned solutions.

At Forterra, Sheila served as Vice President of Product and Program Management, driving product strategy for complex, off-road autonomous applications. During her time at Aptiv, she held dual roles in product management and business development, launching early autonomous ride-sharing pilots in Boston and Singapore and forging strategic partnerships across global markets. At HERE Technologies, she led a global product organization with a focus on embedded navigation, ADAS, and high-definition mapping for automated driving.

Sheila is known for cultivating customer-centric cultures and aligning cross-functional teams around a clear product vision.

Summer Craze Fowler is Torc’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Summer brings more than two decades of experience developing and executing successful technical strategies that align with business goals and objectives. She develops strategic security and risk management programs, implements security policies and procedures, manages security technologies and oversees security-awareness training.

Summer teaches cybersecurity governance and risk metrics at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves on both non-profit and for-profit Boards and chairs several committees. Summer is a co-host on the Business Security Weekly podcast and is often requested as a speaker at national and international conferences. She has both a MS and BS from the University of Pittsburgh’s school of Computer and Information Science.

As Chief People Officer, Jamie leads Torc’s Talent Strategy, providing the benefits and mechanisms that demonstrate care for employee wellbeing, employee engagement, motivation, and the right talent for the long haul. She serves as a senior advisor and confidant to Torc’s leadership team on human capital matters and oversees the talent People team that focuses on all elements of candidate and employee experience from pre-hire to retire.

Kayla serves as Chief of Staff to the CEO for Torc. In this role, she connects people, information, and context across the organization to coordinate and provide support for the CEO, Board of Directors, executive team, and shareholder relations.  She also leads the administration team and facilitates special projects in support of corporate governance and strategic initiatives.