Mr. Matthias Aydt has served as FF’s Global Chief Executive Officer since September 29, 2023. Mr. Aydt served as FF’s Senior Vice President of Business Development and Product Definition since November 2019, overseeing business development of FF’s business to business sales, technology licensing and strategic cooperation as well as leading its product strategy for future products. Mr. Aydt has also served in various leadership roles at FF, including Senior Vice President of Product Execution, Vice President of Vehicle Engineering and Vehicle Chief Engineer and Head of Hardware Architecture. Mr. Aydt has extensive experience in the automotive industry. Prior to joining FF in July 2016, Mr. Aydt served as the Vice President of Vehicle Engineering of Qoros Auto from January 2015 to May 2016, held various positions at Magna Steyr from 2006 to 2014, including Branch Manager and Head of Project Management at Magna Steyr China. Mr. Aydt received his Bachelor of Science degree from Fachhochschule Ulm - Hochschule für Technik. Mr. Aydt also serves on FF’s board of directors.
Koti has been a valued member of the Faraday Future team since February 2016, where he has managed finance operations, led financial planning and analysis, and supported initiatives in process improvement, target setting, and cost reduction. Before joining FF, Koti spent 14 years at Ford Motor Company in various roles focused on cost optimization, product development finance, and corporate finance. His experience also includes work as a Management Consultant at Accenture and as a Product & Application Engineer at Detroit Diesel. Koti holds an MBA from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University, and aB.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.
Jerry (Jiawei) Wang has been serving as Global President of Faraday Future Intelligent Electric (Nasdaq: FFAI, “FF”) since March 2025. Also, he has been serving as Partner and President of FF Global Partners, the founding shareholder of FF that consists of key FF executives since 2022. He was FF’s Vice President of Global Capital Markets at Faraday Future from May 2018 to April 2022. Prior to that, he was Global Head of Capital Markets from January 2018 to May 2018, and General Manager of China Capital Markets from March 2017 to January 2018.
During his career at FF and as one of the founding members, he led all FF capital markets activities, including secured ~$4 billion financing in multiple public and private rounds, successfully closed one of the largest EV SPAC IPO ($1 billion raised with $4 billion post-closing valuation), successfully closed several large strategic / joint venture partnerships etc.
He is the Co-Founder and Chairman of AIBOT Inc. since 2022. AIBOT is a California based, AI-driven, intelligent eVTOL aircraft developer with the vision to disrupt the next generation of mobility and integrate flying into the daily lives of humanity. AIBOT has been ranked as Top 10 innovation technology company by the California government in 2024.
Before joining FF, Jerry worked at LeEco as Director of Corporate Development from 2015 to 2017. He co-founded Global Galaxy Inc., a private investment firm in September 2013 and worked as a private equity analyst at Knights Investment Group from December 2013 to February 2014. Jerry received bachelor’s degree in finance from Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, and was studying at New York University for Master of Economics (dropped out).
YT is not only a great visionary, but also one of the few product and technology transformers and the implementer who leads the team to turning the vision into reality. He set up the next-gen shared smart mobility ecosystem strategy featuring “AI + Platform + Hardware + Software+ Application + Sharing” back in 2013 and started to make plans to enter the global Internet smart auto industry. He founded Faraday Future (FF) - a global Internet smart mobility eco company - in California, the global innovation epicenter. The “Four Future Trends” theory featuring “electrification, intelligence, Internet and sharing” proposed by YT 6 years ago is fueling the transformation of global auto industry by setting a new industry standard for such transformation.
YT believes that the next-gen auto industry is the biggest application in the age of AI and presents the greatest opportunities for industrialization and commercialization. As the founder and CPUO, YT is leading the team to building the Internet ecosystem and the AI-powered shared mobility ecosystem that integrates Platform, Hardware, Software and Application. He also leads activities in AI, product definition, user acquisition, user experience and user operation. Regarding product and technology, he focuses on breaking the boundaries between the Internet, AI, consumer electronics and automobile, create eco chemistry and new species. With respect to users, his priority is to create a user-centric Internet eco O2O model that encompasses user acquisition and user operation.