Festus Ayeni

Ayeni is Chief Operating Officer at EH Energy, where he leads the company’s global operations and scale-up as EH Energy expands its next-generation fuel cell platform across the data center, industrial, defense, drone, aviation and maritime markets. Ayeni is responsible for building the company’s global operating platform, including manufacturing, supply chain, customer deployments, operations and maintenance, strategic partnerships and the organizational capabilities required to scale the business.

Ayeni brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience across energy, industrial, automotive and transportation businesses, including extensive executive leadership at GE Vernova, GE and Toyota Tsusho America. Most recently, he served as President & General Manager of GE Vernova’s Power & Energy Resources Software business, a global energy technology business. Earlier, he held senior leadership roles spanning P&L leadership, energy services, commercial operations, field services execution and operational transformation across the Americas, Africa and global markets.

Throughout his career, Festus has built and transformed complex businesses at scale, leading services execution, manufacturing and supply-chain initiatives, large-scale customer deployments, operational excellence and Lean Transformations and global cross-functional teams. He has a track record of driving growth while improving execution, cost, quality, and customer outcomes and has operated extensively across the US, Europe, Africa and other international markets. His experience aligns closely with EH Energy’s ambition to establish a world-class gigafactory and operating platform, and to scale delivery from initial customer orders to multi-GW capacity.

Ayeni is passionate about building high-performing teams and developing leaders, with experience working across distributed organizations and diverse cultures. He holds a B.S. in Business Economics from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Drexel University. He serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board for The Ohio State University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

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