[23][33][34][35], The 2012 Fisker Karma is a part of the permanent collection at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. You can sign up for additional alert options at any time. [113], Following his resignation from Fisker Automotive in March 2013, Fisker voluntarily testified on 24 April 2013, at a congressional hearing led by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the Department of Energy's $192 million disbursement to Fisker Automotive through the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. [110], An arbitrator ruled in favor of Fisker Coachbuild. [58][59] Fisker collaborated with Tudor Championship racing driver Ben Keating on the car, a re-engineered Dodge Viper SRT chassis with a new Fisker-designed body. HENRIK FISKER: Last Applicant/Owner: Geeta Gupta 9270 Kinglet Drive Los Angeles, CA 90069 : Serial Number: 85734151: Filing Date: September 20, 2012: Status: Abandoned-Failure To Respond Or Late Response: Status Date: January 10, 2014 [7], The Fisker-designed BMW Z8 was featured as the official car in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. Mr. McDermott has served as the Chief Executive Officer of ServiceNow, Inc., a public digital workflow company, since November 2019. [61] Since then Fisker has talked about delays to the promised solid state battery technology, which he does not expect to be able to be produced in volume until at least 2025. Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker is Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Fisker Inc. She was crucial in securing and assigning Fisker trademarks and associated goodwill in 2016 to Fisker Inc. She is responsible for operations, finance & planning, purchasing & supply chain management, insurance, treasury, tax, intellectual property management, and preparing Fisker Inc. for GAAP compliance and public market readiness. The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. Aston Martin subsequently stopped threatening to interfere with the development of the Force 1, and the matter was resolved in April 2016. Provide your NRIC Number, Nationality and Date of Birth. Fiskars Group Hämeentie 135 A P.O. Both the Tesla and Fisker vehicles in question were designed as serial hybrid cars, with a gas engine powering a generator that charges a battery to power the electric motor, and both were initially planned for delivery in 2010. New York. [69] Fisker Inc's long-range electric vehicles are targeting a minimum range of 400 miles per charge, which would be a far longer range than any electric vehicle to date. Less than 15 of the vehicles were ever built. [73][74] This planned production of the Ocean is a change of plans from originally producing the EMotion first, now the Ocean replacing the EMotions planned production time, where Fisker cites the reason as consumer interest in the SUV market, and the EMotion design not being ready (As of September 2020). He is best known for designing luxury cars including the BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Fisker Karma, Galpin-Fisker Mustang Rocket, VLF Force 1 V10, VLF Destino V8, Fisker EMotion, Fisker Ocean, and Fisker Orbit. Mr. McDermott also serves as a member of the Board of Directors ServiceNow, Inc. Mr. McDermott holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Dowling College, New York, a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and participated in the Executive Development Program of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His venture investments have included YMAX (magicJackVocaltec NASDAQ: CALL), Dynamicsoft (sold to Cisco Systems), Bitfone (sold to Hewlett-Packard Company), Snowshore (sold to Broktrout/Cantata), FusionOne (sold to Synchronoss), ProQuent Systems (sold to Bytemobile/Citrix) and Visage Mobile. After selling approximately 2,000 units, production of the Fisker Karma was suspended in November 2012, in the absence of its battery supplier. It was delivered to customers, including guitarist Carlos Santana, starting in June 2016, with production planned for 100 per year. In 2013, Fisker formed HF Design & Technology, a Los Angeles-based design house. American by nationality and Danish by birth, Fisker’s many past and present global entrepreneurial endeavors are headlined by his current role as the Chairman and CEO of Fisker Inc. – founded in 2016 as his second automotive company. [57] The VLF Destino V8, one of the world's fastest four-door sedans, is built with a Fisker Karma chassis and supercharged Corvette ZL1 V8 engine. [57] Based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, VLF is the successor to VL Automotive, which was launched in 2013 and led by Villarreal and Lutz. On 14 April 2008, Tesla Motors filed a lawsuit against Fisker Coachbuild, Fisker and Koehler, contending that they had fraudulently agreed to a design contract in 2007 only to gain access to confidential information, before announcing a competing vehicle, the Fisker Karma. Mr. Henrik Fisker is Fisker Inc.’s Co-founder and has served as the company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer since the company’s inception in 2016. [65] Posing risk for competition from more scientifically experienced future solid state battery produces such as Quantumscape. [7] In 2005, Fisker left Aston Martin and the Ford Motor Company, a move that "shocked his colleagues. In August 2007, Fisker and Quantum Technologies teamed up to launch the luxury electric car startup Fisker Automotive in Anaheim, California. Jun 6, 2013 - Henrik and Geeta Fisker at the GA Aquarium for the Captain Planet Charity Auction. An arbitrator ruled in their favor in November 2008, finding "overwhelming" evidence showing that Fisker did not do anything wrong. Fisker also designed the Aston Martin V8 Vantage (in production from 2005 to the present), a two-door coupe considered to be the leanest and most agile of all Aston Martin cars. He is a risk-taking, innovation-loving, protocol-challenging designer and entrepreneur who turns dreams into reality and never gives up. [24] At the 2009 auto show, Fisker also unveiled the company's second model, the Karma Sunset, a two-door retractable-hardtop convertible based on the regular Karma. [30] The loan facility was frozen at $192 million in February 2012, after the DOE claimed that Fisker missed its milestones. The company is now publicly listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker (NYSE:FSR). From 2010 through 2014, Mr. McDermott served as Co-Chief Executive Officer, and from 2014 until October 2019, as sole Chief Executive Officer, of SAP SE (“SAP”), a multinational software company providing enterprise software. [67] The company's first vehicle, named the Fisker EMotion, is a sporty, spacious, luxury all-electric sedan, a "spiritual successor" to the Fisker Karma electric car,[68] with double butterfly doors and graphene supercapacitors. 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Henrik Fisker was born on 10 August, 1963 in Allerød Municipality, Denmark, is a President & CEO, Designworks (1999-01) Design director, Aston Martin (2001–05) Founder & CEO, Fisker Coachbuild (2005–07) Founder, chairman & CEO, Fisker Automotive (2007–13) Founder & CEO, HF Design (2013–present) Founder & design chief, VLF Au. [105][106], On October 15, 2020, Fisker Inc announced it would be outsourcing vehicle production of its Fisker Ocean electric SUV to Magna Steyr, to reduce the complexities and costs related to the building and operating its own factory. [82] More details on the Fisker Ocean will be revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2020. [16], From September 2001 to August 2003, Fisker was creative director of Ingeni, Ford's London-based design and creativity center. [64] He has said he is close to breakthroughs in battery technology, and hinted at potentially reviving the Fisker name with a pure-electric vehicle using technology that nobody else has. [72], In September 2018, Fisker announced the development of Fisker Inc.'s mass-market all-electric SUV. [7][10] Fisker also worked on the design of BMW's first SUV, the original X5, a mid-size luxury crossover introduced in 1999[12] and marketed by the company as a "sports activity vehicle". Prior to joining SAP, Mr. McDermott served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations at Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. from 2001 to 2002 and served as President of Gartner, Inc. from 2000 to 2001. [34][115], On 4 January 2016, Fisker filed a suit against Aston Martin and three of its executives for $100 million in damages for civil extortion, claiming that his former employer was trying to prevent him from unveiling his new luxury sports car hybrid, the VLF Force 1 V10, at the 2016 North American International Auto Show. [44] The design was completed in 2014, with the tank, seat and rear fender in one flowing shape. [100], On July 8, 2020, Fisker announced the completion of a $50 million Series C financing round funded by Moore Strategic Ventures, the private investment arm of Louis Bacon, with the proceeds to go toward engineering work on the Fisker Ocean all-electric luxury SUV. His first project there was the E1 electric concept car. 51 Comments. Mr. Randall currently serves on the boards of the following private companies: MagLev Aero, Inc., Mavenir Systems, Inc., and Stratus Technologies, Inc. [32] In December 2011, just as the Fisker Karma was launched, its battery supplier, A123 Systems, recalled all batteries, followed by a second recall in 2012. Tweet. [14], Fisker left BMW for the Ford Motor Company in 2001, where he served as design director at Aston Martin. He also designed the Viking motorcycle and Benetti Fisker 50 superyacht, and is involved in the design of flexible solid-state batterytechnology. [52] In April 2016, Fisker revealed a fuller view of the $37 million 50-meter (164-foot) superyacht designed in California and scheduled for production in Livorno, Italy. Mr. Randall is currently an Executive Partner at Siris Capital Group, LLC (since 2010), a private equity firm focused on complex telecom and technology companies operating at scale, after a successful 10-year span of leadership positions at two Venture Capital firms. [95] Fisker stated in 2018 that, with the growth of car-sharing, ride-hailing, and autonomous shuttles, he believes within 10 years private cars will be used for less than half of what they are currently used for. The company's second car was the Fisker Latigo CS, with a re-bodied BMW 645Ci coupe. 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