Executive Management

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.

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.

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.

Scott Johnson is the VP of software at Hyliion. An entrepreneurial technologist and veteran executive, Scott’s strong experience in early stage startups has cultivated a talent for understanding the big picture and creating company road maps. He has a strategic aptitude for recognizing how products provide value to customers, the role of disruptive technologies as a means of market penetration, and where products fit within the market ecosystem to fuel further growth and business expansion.

Prior to joining Hyliion, Scott co-founded and served as CSO of CopperEgg Corporation (acquired by Idera). He previously held software engineering roles at Storspeed and Compaq. Scott has a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology, and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University.

Dave Mullinix is the VP of UI/UX at Hyllion. With more than 30 years of engineering management experience, Dave is an expert at leveraging state-of-the-art software, hardware, and industrial design technologies and architectures. He has created and delivered market-leading B2B products with outstanding customer value, user experience, and product margins in healthcare, GPS, videoconferencing, networking and aviation.

Before joining Hyliion, Dave served as the vice president of engineering at FirstHand, and has held engineering management positions with GPS Industries, ClearCommerce, VTEL, Ungermann-Bass and Bendix Avionics. Dave has a degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and holds a patent on positioning-based vehicle control.

Bob Gujavarty is the head of investor relations at Hyliion, where he oversees investor strategy working closely with the company’s senior leadership team. Prior to joining Hyliion, he was the vice president of investor relations at Q2 Holdings, where he built the company’s investor relations function and assisted in strategy development and execution for M&A activity and financing events. Bob began his career as a sell-side research analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities covering the semiconductor industry. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cody Loos is the director of operations at Hyliion, where he focuses on organizational cost effectiveness to help improve efficiency. Cody’s experience in natural gas compression spans operation, leadership and customer success.

Prior to Hyliion, Cody was a regional operations manager and founding employee for Pegasus Optimization Managers LLC, responsible for operations process and system implementation. . During his three year tenure, Cody oversaw 25 percent of the company’s total revenue. He also served as a field technician and purchasing agent for CDM Resource Management.

Matt Gold is the director of sales for Hyliion, leveraging his extensive sales, account management and engineering experience in both the automotive and commercial vehicle industry. Prior to joining the company, he was a sales engineer with The Timken Company, specializing in axles and bearing solutions for small and large OE accounts.

Matt has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Ohio University. He is a former professional soccer player, having started his professional career with Toronto FC, a first division MLS team.

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.