Executive Management

Thomas Healy is the CEO at Hyliion, leading the company’s strategic growth in the commercial transportation industry. A mechanical engineer by trade with a passion for racing and motorsports, he founded the company in 2015 with the mission to bring the advantages of hybrid technology to tractor trailers. Under his leadership, Hyliion has raised $52 million in capital to date and acquired Gentherm’s battery division to fuel its ongoing innovation in hybrid electric technology.

A serial entrepreneur, Thomas founded two prior start-ups and was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a dual bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and engineering and public policy.

Gallagher has extensive background in strategic planning, growth initiatives, and process implementation in the commercial vehicle and automation industries. He joins Hyliion from Jacobs Vehicle Systems, where he served as President of the industry-leading supplier to the heavy-duty commercial truck market. Previously in his career, he has held executive roles within Danaher and Fortive where he successfully led a number of global business units. Gallagher graduated from the University of Lowell with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Sherri Baker is the CFO at Hyliion, where she oversees Hyliion’s financial operations and strategy, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury, tax and investor relations. Baker has nearly two decades of finance and accounting leadership experience, as well as a strong understanding of investor relations, M&A and manufacturing operations, including go-to-market and engineering functions.

Prior to joining Hyliion, Sherri previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for PGT Innovations, a publicly traded, national leader and advanced manufacturer of premium windows and doors from March 2019 to January 2021. While there, Baker was responsible for the company’s finance strategy, budgeting and planning, accounting, legal, IT, financial reporting, and investor relations functions.

Sherri holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Accounting from the University of North Texas.

Lantz is a seasoned strategy and functional leader who has spent the last 20 years developing and leading operations and growth strategies for manufacturers in the mobility sector. Prior to joining Hyliion, Lantz served as the Vice President of Strategy for the Transportation Solutions Segment at TE Connectivity, a $15B electronics manufacturer.

Before TE Connectivity, Lantz served as the Chief Strategy Officer and executive leader responsible for advanced and shared engineering and global test labs at Meritor, Inc., a leading manufacturer of axles and brakes to the commercial vehicle industry. Additionally, Lantz spent many years advising Fortune 500 companies on a breadth of growth and operational topics while a strategist with Boston Consulting Group and Booz & Company.

Lantz holds three degrees from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the Ross School of Business, with a focus on corporate strategy and economics, a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering, and a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering.

Oxholm comes to Hyliion with more than two decades of domestic and international experience and a track record of managing complex business transactions, litigation and new market entries for some of the automotive and transportation sectors’ most advanced companies, including LoJack Corporation, Ford Motor Corporation and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

Most recently, he served as vice president, deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer for Meritor, Inc., a leading global provider of on and off highway commercial truck and other agricultural and military vehicle parts, systems and solutions. In that role, he supported and directed strategic and tactical corporate legal initiatives for the company’s largest business unit among other responsibilities.

Patrick Sexton is the CTO at Hyliion, where he develops, optimizes and implements powertrain solutions for Class 8 truck electrification. An experienced engineering and operations leader, Patrick has an extensive background in product development, commercialization, operations, program and change management, and organizational gap analysis.

Patrick previously served as director of engineering and powertrain innovations at Dana Incorporated. Prior to that, he held various engineering and consulting positions with General Compression, Fallbrook Technologies, AVL, Ricardo, Ford Motor Company and JCB. Patrick has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and manufacturing engineering from Cork Institute of Technology and holds numerous technology patents.