Brisbane-headquartered global EV fast charger manufacturer Tritium says Rob Topol, a former Intel executive, has joined as a senior member of Tritium’s finance team.
Topol will transition to chief financial officer, working alongside current Tritium CFO Michael Hipwood until the company’s financial year earnings announcement in September 2022, after which Topol will take over as full-time CFO.
Topol has extensive executive experience at Intel, where he served as a finance leader and business executive for more than 20 years.
At Intel, Topol led strategy for the 5G and Next Gen wireless technologies business division, served as CFO for Intel’s global supply chain organisation, served as CFO for communication and devices based in China. He also has experience as a financial controller as well as many years working in senior manufacturing finance roles.
Topol drove more than $4 billion of savings in capital investment through supply chain optimisation, dual source for equipment, and contract manufacturing.
His most recent role with Intel was CFO and vice president of the accelerated computing systems and graphics business, managing revenue, cost, and reporting for the graphics and high-performance computing business, including Intel ARC, Xeon HPC, data centre GPU and blockchain products.
Topol managed a more than $30 billion manufacturing, research and development portfolio at Intel and led a team of global controllers and analysts supporting all cost functions. He served as general manager of Intel’s 5G wireless and Next Gen Standards business division for four years, developing strategy and helping to build a portfolio of devices, internet of things and network infrastructure, data centre and cloud computing solutions.
He also served as a Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) board member from 2019-2021.
“EV fast charging is one of the fastest-growing segments in green-technology and Tritium is perfectly positioned to lead the field with its technical expertise, innovative products, and strong international partnerships,” says Topol.
Tritium chief executive Jane Hunter says working alongside current CFO Michael Hipwood for the past three years has seen maturing of the business and listing on the Nasdaq.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Rob Topol to Tritium’s leadership team. His combined technical and financial expertise will support Tritium’s global scale and growth over the coming years,” Hunter adds.
Hipwood says that in the past four years Tritium has launched multiple new product lines, expanded into new markets, built a new factory in the US, and became a publicly traded company.
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