Faraday Future loses another founding executive
A second founding executive has left ailing electric car startup Faraday Future. The Verge has learned that Tom Wessner, the head of Faraday Future’s supply chain management, resigned from the company yesterday. FF has confirmed his resignation.
Wessner was one of the five initial executives brought in to run specific parts of the company by its cofounders Nick Sampson, Tony Nie, and Jia Yueting in 2015. Another, Alan Cherry, left in August. And like Cherry, Wessner once worked at Tesla. The other three executives — Dag Reckhorn (manufacturing), Richard Kim (design), and Sampson (R&D) — are still with the company.
FF has fumbled in the past, but it’s been reeling since this summer when the assets of Jia Yueting were frozen by the…