Perrone Robotics Expands Leadership Team

John Mottola, a twenty-year veteran of the financial service and investment banking sectors, will lead Perrone’s operations and advance corporate financial initiatives. John is considered a subject matter expert in the areas of compliance risk oversight and corporate merger and acquisition strategies. With both a law degree and MBA, he has performed enterprise-wide regulatory source reviews, risk assessments/analysis, policies/procedures, and enhanced regulatory compliance initiatives. Throughout his career, John has built strong partnerships to collaborate effectively across business, operational, legal, and other enterprise compliance risk partners and regulatory authorities to position organizations for growth. His background includes corporate valuations, debt settlement, and equity market transactions for various mutual fund complexes. Mottola comes to Perrone Robotics from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Wells Fargo Compliance – Enterprise Regulations as vice president, compliance senior manager.

Max DePiro, PhD.,  an entrepreneur and autonomous vehicle innovator, will lead Perrone Robotics’ engineering team. In his role, DePiro will focus on customer delivery mechanisms, product commercialization, and enhanced development of AV systems. In addition, DePiro will be responsible for scaling the production of Perrone Robotics’ autonomous vehicle (AV) TONY (TO Navigate You) retrofit kit to meet increased market demands from the commercial, governmental, residential, fleet, and logistics sectors. DePiro’s background includes platform development, cloud-based software applications, and image processing methods for automated inspection. Prior to Perrone Robotics, Max led a series of ventures in the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) technology space. For over five years, he managed projects for commercial, defense, and academic deployments at NASA Langley Research Center. DePiro’s early career experience spans Department of Defense research and embedded PC solutions for advertising, gaming, and defense applications.

Colleen Hahn, in her role as vice president of marketing and communications, will be responsible for solidifying the company’s position as a leader in the autonomous vehicle sector and helping to establish the Perrone brand as the “autonomous vehicle technology of choice” for transit and transportation customers who want reliable, performance-driven AV technology solutions. Hahn has significant expertise in branding new market verticals, positioning emerging technology into established sectors, and creating pathways for reliable, safe, disruptive technology to enter risk-averse markets. Hahn will lead integrated marketing and communications initiatives to support Perrone’s sales team and accelerate growth opportunities across market verticals. In addition, she will manage Perrone Robotics’ strategic partner programs, product marketing, and customer service pathway models. Hahn comes to Perrone Robotics with a background as a chief marketing officer overseeing sales, communications, and marketing.

The team joins Founder/CEO Paul Perrone, Chief Counsel Mike Raschid, VP of Projects Don Perrone, and a group of dedicated employees committed to developing safe, innovative AV technology for the mobility of people and things.

“As Perrone Robotics continues its expansion, we are thrilled to add this diverse leadership team to help us drive growth across our target market verticals and strategically identify new market opportunities,” stated Paul Perrone, Perrone Robotics, Inc., founder, and chief executive officer. “We have tremendous opportunity to help customers increase operational efficiencies across their transportation and transit value chain through cost-effective, reliable AV technology that is built around our safety certifiable framework. The team’s in-depth product knowledge and strong experience across industry will help us realize our strategic vision, increase sales exponentially and deliver…