TORRANCE, Calif., October 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Hadrian, the advanced manufacturing company that supercharges America’s workers and builds factories of the future, today announced the appointment of West Owens as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Owens, a veteran financial executive with more than 20 years of experience, joins from TerraWatt Infrastructure, a provider of charging solutions for electrified fleets, where he served as CFO. Prior to that, he served as CFO and in other financial and senior advisory roles at a variety of startups, where he focused on growing and scaling companies, as well as emerging technology industries. Among other positions, Owens served as Vice President of Structured Finance at SolarCity, where he raised $2 billion in diversified capital for the company and securitized the first solar service agreements and loans in the ABS market.
Owens holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.
“We are tremendously excited to welcome West to our executive team and believe he is the right person to lead us through our next stages of growth,” said Hadrian’s Founder and CEO. Chris Power. “Our goal is to scale quickly to serve the significant need among US manufacturers to increase the speed, efficiency and quality of their manufacturing processes, and we believe that with the financial guidance of the West, we will be able to grow both the footprint of our business and the capabilities we can offer to our customers.”
“Joining Hadrian at this stage of its development is a tremendous opportunity to support the critical mission of revitalizing America’s industrial base,” said Owens. “My career has been focused on ensuring companies build the funding engine and establish the right long-term capital structure to enable them to reach their full potential, so I couldn’t be more excited to work with Chris and the team at scale and finance the next generation of smart factories.”
About Adrian: Hadrian is the factory of the future. It helps scale the US industrial and manufacturing base by supercharging the American worker with process engineering, AI, Machine Learning and robotics. Hadrian’s mission is to transform the US industrial base by building a series of highly automated precision component factories to enable aerospace and defense manufacturers to get parts 10 times faster and cut the cost of make rockets, satellites, jets and drones. Leveraging the latest technologies in automation, artificial intelligence and precision engineering, Hadrian scales advanced machining to support customers in space, transportation and defence. Hadrian resurrected $117 million from top level investors in its Series B financing in February 2024.
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