Fleet Space Expands
Presence In Us With New Chief Revenue Officer
Kevin Ramani joins Fleet Space
as its new Chief Revenue Officer
November 16th 202
“Having Kevin on board is a
huge boost to our global growth ambitions. He brings
proven experience of creating and running his own
successful start-ups, and also of coaching other
entrepreneurs to help them build viable long-term
businesses. That’s the mindset and energy we need as
we seek to expand our presence beyond Australia.
Kevin knows and understands the US market
intimately, having first studied and then built his
career in California: this will be enormously
important in delivering our growing range of
products and services to new and existing customers
in America and worldwide. We very much look forward
to working with him.” Flavia Tata
Nardini, CEO and Co-Founder, Fleet Space
Technologies
Fleet Space is delighted to
announce the appointment of Kevin Ramani as its
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Fleet Space has seen a
45% increase in staff since January 2022 and is now
focusing on expanding their presence on a US and
Global Scale.
A key addition to the Fleet
Space leadership team, Kevin will have overall
responsibility for all matters relating to revenue
generation, including sales, new business
development and delivering customer-facing services.
Kevin has been fascinated by
space since childhood: at the age of 15, he took
part in a robotics competition, working with mentors
from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). After
studying Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara,
he joined JPL himself, working on projects including
the Phoenix Mission that discovered water and ice on
Mars, and the Curiosity Rover mobile lab that
located organic particles on the Red Planet.
He then founded a series of
tech businesses in Silicon Valley, including a
successful CRM platform specifically designed for
fast-growing start-ups. After seven years, he
applied his knowledge to mentoring and coaching: it
was in this capacity that he met Fleet Space
founders Flavia Tata Nardini and Matt Pearson in
2019.
Although Fleet Space has its
headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia, Kevin
will continue to be based in California in his new
role. His priority is to expand and strengthen Fleet
Space’s business development, delivery and account
management teams in the US and worldwide. This comes
after Fleet has recently announced joint
partnerships with Core Lithium in Australia and
Talon in the US.
Commenting on his new
appointment, Kevin says: “As a coach, Fleet was the
best-performing company I’d ever come across by far:
a combination of humble but great technologists who
are amazing at execution. This is a fantastic
opportunity, with the geopolitical pressures on
energy and resources driving an international
clamour for precisely the brilliant, innovative
technology Fleet is developing right now. What Fleet
does is so valuable, it’s less about where I am and
more about understanding the purpose, the culture
and the company. If we can put the right people in
place, we can help transform the global mining and
mineral exploration sector, which is so critical to
both economic development and the fight against
climate change. With more customers in our pipeline,
it's crucial to have the right foundations in place
to ensure a smooth delivery and greater success.”
At the end of October, Fleet
also announced the hire of their Chief Product
Officer, Hemant Chaurasia. Hemant, who joined from
VP of Product Management at Astra now leads the
product roadmap from initial strategy to final
deployment. Hemant and Kevin are few of recent hires
at Fleet since increasing in staff by 45% since
January 2022.
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