Pickle Robotic, which builds autonomous unloading robots for warehouses and distribution facilities, introduced a brand new chief monetary officer simply days after a report of a serious cope with UPS.
The Charlestown, Massachusetts-based firm introduced that it employed Jeff Evanson as its CFO on Thursday. Evanson had been consulting for the corporate since September and lately joined full time.
Evanson beforehand served because the vice chairman of worldwide investor relations and technique at Tesla from 2011 to 2017. In that function, he labored immediately with Elon Musk and helped the corporate increase debt and fairness financing to help the launch of a number of Tesla automobile strains and firm acquisitions.
Evanson will probably be Pickle’s first CFO and joins as the corporate — based in 2018 with round $100 million in enterprise capital raised — reportedly expands its partnership with delivery large UPS. In accordance with Bloomberg, UPS is investing $120 million to buy 400 of Pickle’s robots, with deployment starting in late 2026 and early 2027.
Pickle declined to touch upon this week’s UPS information. A Pickle spokesperson did verify that UPS has been a Pickle buyer for a couple of years however wouldn’t verify when the partnership began.
