Arcimoto, Inc. announced that Ms. Christina J. Cook, who has served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, notified the Company of her decision to resign from her position, effective October 31, 2023. On November 3, 2023, the Company?s board of directors determined that upon Ms. Cook?s resignation, Mr. Christopher Dawson, the Company?s current Chief Executive Officer, will serve as the Company?s interim Chief Financial Officer and will assume the roles of principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Dawson, age 41, has been a member of board of directors since August 2022.

On April 16, 2023, Mr. Dawson was appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Dawson was the Chief Executive Officer of Nikola Tesla Co., an engineering services company with projects that include electrification, hybridization, EV charging, hydrogen powertrain development, hydrogen powered VTOL, hydrogen power systems, fuel cell and hydrogen electrolyzer development. From November 2021 to November 2022, he was the Chief Technology Officer for both HNO international and Tesla Aerial Robotics.

He also served as Chief Engineer on various U.S. Department of Defense projects. Mr. Dawson was an initial investor in Atlis Motor Vehicles (NASDAQ: AMV) in 2019, and subsequently led Research and Development, Engineering, and Product Development as Vice President of Manufacturing Engineering from September 2020 to September 2021 for the XT Truck, XP Platforms, and AMV Battery Cell. From November 2019 to June 2020, Mr. Dawson was a Director of Crown Poly, Inc. Mr. Dawson started at Tesla in 2012 as a contractor and came on full time in 2014.

During the subsequent five years through November 2019, he held positions of increasingly progressive responsibility, culminating as Senior Manufacturing Engineer and Maintenance Manager. In these roles, Mr. Dawson led manufacturing sustaining engineering teams for Tesla on the Model S/X line, Model 3 line and its battery factory in Freemont, California. He has been developing EVs for on road, off road and the battlefield for the last 10 years.

He is a former U.S. Navy submarine nuclear chemist and helicopter flight Instructor. He holds an MBA from University of Denver, a BS in Nuclear Technologies from Excelsior College and Helicopter Flight Instruction from Aims Community College.