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H
ere's a recent list of 45 key employees at City Storage Systems, also known as
CloudKitchens.

CEO: Travis Kalanick

Co-founder: Diego Berdakin 

Hardware/manufacturing engineering: 

Shen Jackson, ex-Tesla manufacturing engineer for seven years

Charles Mwangi, ex-Tesla product design and manufacturing engineer for six years

Sunny Xue, ex-Tesla for five years, worked on battery factory there

Sergiy Nesterenko, longtime former space radiation effects engineer at SpaceX 

Software engineering: 
JJ Ford, software/infrastructure lead, ex-Uber staff engineer; five-year Uber veteran
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Ashley Quitoriano, ex-engineering manager at Uber’s ride-hailing business

Anthony Tran, ex-Uber Eats senior manager

Minh Tran, ex-Uber Eats senior manager

Nadir Hyder, IT & customer support

Ilya Haykinson, ex-Snapchat and Hulu engineering director

Matt Gode, ex-Uber

Human resources: 

Mark Floyd, chief HR officer and deputy general counsel. Formerly Uber “labor relations”
manager, previously HR manager at a private prison system.

Legal: 

Mohit Abraham, ex-Uber regulatory lawyer for three and a half years

Finance: 

Jacob Galey, previously in Uber’s finance org for five years

Ariel Nahmias, ex-finance at Activision

Tim Lawlor (capital markets), ex-Uber

Design & architecture: 

Denise Cherry, ex-principal at Assembly Design Studio, which did work for Uber. Other
Assembly members also joined City Storage Systems to design its dark kitchens.

Elizabeth Guerrero, global design director; ex-Assembly Design Studio

Zak Kowal, background in construction project management

Recruiting: 
Craig Naylor, ex-Facebook and Uber
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Scott Ford, ex-Tesla

David Tunna, longtime recruiting-firm principal in U.K.

Emily Graff, ex-Andreessen Horowitz

Samson Wu, ex-Uber

Sho Takei, ex-Uber in Asia

Lucas Partington, ex-Uber

Nilu Kashanchi, ex-Bird and Thumbtack

Growth: 

Ben Broca, previous co-founder of several software startups

Jessica Morton, previously worked for Uber in Asia

Global operations/facility launchers: 

John Liu, early employee at Uber Eats 

Daniel Cohen-Arcamone, ex-Uber product development

Michael Colburn (“Colby”) Goff, owner of numerous restaurants

Warren Tseng (Singapore), ex-Uber

Roy Shaby and Will Beresford (London), co-founders of FoodStars dark kitchens, acquired
by City Storage

Yanqi Zhang (China), ex-Uber China operations and Ofo co-founder

Fouad Chemlati (Middle East), based in UAE, ex-Uber operations

Zeid Hreish (Middle East/North Africa), based in Dubai (UAE), ex-Uber operations

Max Cortes, ex-Uber expansion strategy

Tanner Baldwin, ex-Uber business development
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Real estate acquisition: 

Barak Diskin, previously co-founder of MeUndies, an apparel site, and also previously
managed or acquired real estate at other firms

Mark Morkos, previously at commercial real estate lender

Robert Valenziano, previously 12 years at CBRE

Aly Smith (acquisitions associate) previously at civil engineering firm

Note: Some career background information is from LinkedIn profiles. 

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