Workhorse Group announces executive changes

Workhorse Group has appointed former company Director of Research and Development Robert Willison, PhD, to the position of COO. Willison’s appointment follows the recently announced promotion of Duane Hughes to Workhorse CEO.

Willison returns to Workhorse after serving as director of fleet technology at Sysco Corporation, where he managed the coordination, design and project management of Sysco’s electric vehicle initiative. In his former position at Workhorse, Willison was responsible for various electric vehicle programs and systems, including the company’s work with the United States Postal Service (USPS) on the Next Generation Postal Vehicle, as well as the company’s NGEN composite-body electric delivery truck. The majority of Willison’s work centered on commercialization of prototypes to production vehicles, and he has extensive experience working with new technologies and integrating them into final-product vehicles, the company says.

“Having served as Rob’s predecessor, I am acutely aware of the demands of the COO position as well as Workhorse’s needs for the role going forward,” says Hughes. “Having also worked closely with Rob in the past, I am convinced of his ability to get that job done. He possesses a unique blend of technical capabilities, people skills and leadership experience, all of which will serve him well in this position. As our company continues its transition from development phase into large-scale production, Rob and his team will be focused on our core business in last-mile delivery. More specifically, Rob’s main directive, and the chief emphasis of our company for the foreseeable future, is the manufacturing and delivery of NGEN electric delivery trucks profitably to fulfill the sizeable number of purchase orders currently making up our backlog.”

Willison adds: “I look forward to taking on another senior position at Workhorse as well as playing a major role in its current evolution into a major production enterprise. Coming into this position already with a deep understanding of Workhorse, its technological capabilities, and its customer and vendor relationships will allow me to hit the ground running. We’re going to be focused on what we do best: trucks. My broad industry experience has provided me with the ability to help various companies create innovative products in a reliable and high-quality manner, and at Workhorse, I plan to do the same. In the process, we hope to further our mission of transforming the future of last-mile delivery.”

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