The people who have already done this.

Adrian Balfour

Founder and Chairman

Founded Pcubed and built it into an international program management consultancy before founding Envorso. Has worked directly with Ford Motor Company and with venture capital firms on technology strategy and delivery.

• Pcubed
• Ford

Stuart Taylor

Chief Executive Officer

Previously Deputy CEO at VinFast, and seventeen years at Ford Motor Company — latterly Executive Director of Enterprise Connectivity, where a 5,000-person embedded, cloud and mobile software organization built the full stack behind Ford’s digital cockpit and connected vehicle services. Earlier at Ford, led the 1,000-engineer South America organization across Brazil and Argentina, an 800-person team in Nanjing, China, and served as Chief Engineer for electrical and electronics across Asia Pacific and Africa. Began in electronics and software engineering at Aston Martin, Daewoo, and Land Rover.

• VinFast
• Ford
• Aston Martin
• Daewoo
• Land Rover

Kari Novatney

Head of Business Development & Operations

Chief operating officer at Chariot and at Ridemakerz, and COO of FordPass. Scaled Chariot’s shared-mobility operations to ten US markets and London, doubling revenue in a year, and owned the P&L for Ford’s connected services business.

• Ford
• Chariot
• Sony
• Disney
• Funko
• Ridemakerz
• JustAnswer

Scott Tobin

Chairman of the Board

Former Director of Product Development at Lincoln, Ford Motor Company’s luxury division, with program leadership across multiple automotive brands in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

• Lincoln
• Ford

Steve Tengler

Chief Growth Officer

Thirty years in automotive product development and connected vehicle technology, including leadership roles at Honeywell Automotive Cybersecurity, Altia, and OnStar.

• Honeywell
• OnStar
• Altia

Florian Frischmuth

Senior Vice President, Digital Engineering

Thirty-two years at Ford Motor Company, latterly Executive Director of Vehicle Controls, leading the global teams responsible for vehicle software platforms, electrical architecture, and vehicle control systems across Ford’s entire product portfolio. That work helped define the software-defined vehicle architecture and large-scale embedded compute platforms behind modern connected vehicles.

• Ford

Todd Warren

Founding Partner

Former Executive Director of Software at Ford and a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Compiles and maintains the software recall dataset Envorso publishes.

• Ford
• Microsoft

Ludo Hauduc

Chief Technology Officer

Former VP of Engineering for AI Infrastructure at Meta, and previously held senior engineering roles across Microsoft Office 365 and Core Systems. Founding CEO of empwr.ai, the AI program platform incubated inside Envorso and spun out in 2024.

• Meta
• Microsoft
• empwr.ai

Brenda Zinkan

Managing Partner

More than twenty-five years in human resources and talent management for engineering organizations, including Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Ford, and Tesla. Leads Envorso’s work on career ladders, levelling, and compensation.

• Lockheed Martin
• SpaceX
• Ford
• Tesla

Jeri Ford

Senior Advisor

Former VP of Quality at Lucid Motors and VP of the Manufacturing Business Office at Rivian, following senior roles at Ford. Advises on quality operating systems for organizations scaling into volume production.

• Lucid Motors
• Rivian
• Ford

Steven Guggenheimer

Senior Advisor

Led AI solutions and the OEM division as a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Serves as a board director at HSBC.

• Microsoft
• HSBC

Ken Johnston

Vice President of Data, Analytics, and AI

Thirty years across Microsoft, Ford, and Autonomic.ai in data, analytics, and AI. Leads the data quality and AI readiness work that determines whether an AI investment returns anything.

• Microsoft
• Ford
• Autonomic.ai

Jeff Henshaw

Advisor

A co-founder of the Xbox project at Microsoft, later leading its quantum computing product work and the Quantum Development Kit. Now Senior Vice President for Quantum Compute Products at IonQ, and co-owner of the Seattle Seawolves — an Envorso client, disclosed here rather than left to be discovered.

• Xbox
• Microsoft
• Seattle Seawolves
• IonQ

Susan Dehne

Senior Advisor

More than thirty years in automotive product development at FCA and Ford.

• FCA
• Ford

Michael Angiulo

Senior Advisor

Chief Revenue Officer at Magic Leap and previously a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft across Windows, Xbox, and Surface. Serves on the Harvey Mudd College board.

• Magic Leap
• Microsoft
• Xbox

Jack Jacobs

Advisor

Retired United States Army colonel and Medal of Honor recipient. Military analyst for NBC and MSNBC.

• United States Army
• NBC

Jim Morgan

Strategic Advisory

Former Chief Operating Officer at Rivian and a senior engineering leader at Ford. Has written extensively on product development systems.

• Rivian
• Ford

John Thomas

Senior Advisor

Thirty-year automotive veteran. COO at Autel Energy, CEO at Webasto Charging Systems, and CEO of Toyo Tires USA.

• Autel Energy
• Webasto
• Toyo Tires

Bob Zito

Advisor

Thirty-five years in communications and brand strategy across sport, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment.

Jeff Lemmer

Advisor

Led the global IT organization at Ford Motor Company.

• Ford

Bill Draper

Advisor

Former Global Technical Leader for Vehicle Architecture and Design at Ford Motor Company.

• Ford

Will Semple

Advisor

Twenty-five years in cybersecurity, protecting global brands from organized cybercrime.

Bill Strickland

Senior Advisor

Twenty-five years in automotive, including co-founding vehicle programs at Canoo, and roles at Faraday Future, Ford, and FCA.

• Canoo
• Faraday Future
• Ford
• FCA

Jim Buczkowski

Advisor

Former Executive Director of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company.

• Ford