EV Magazine March 2023 | Page 29

HAZIM NADA
MOBILITY EXECUTIVE BIO

HAZIM NADA

TITLE : CO-FOUNDER AND CEO COMPANY : AEHRA INDUSTRY : ELECTRIC VEHICLES LOCATION : ITALY

MOBILITY EXECUTIVE BIO

Born in December 1982 in the US and growing up in the north of Italy , Hazim Nada holds an M . S . in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London in the UK . Nada studied in the world-renowned Cambridge Theoretical Physics Department before transitioning to the global finance sector . Prior to moving to the financial markets world he was specializing in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory . While being a full time PhD student he worked for Citi as a researcher , and later full time as a quantitative analyst and trader for Masefield and Merrill Lynch . In the final year of his doctorate he formed his own multinational commodities trading company which grew to multi billion dollar turnovers . A freelance pilot , and an accomplished wind tunnel flier and skydiver , Nada launched AeroGravity , Europe ’ s largest vertical wind tunnel , with fellow AEHRA founder Sandro Andreotti in 2015 . Keen to invest in the future of sustainable mobility , and to draw on his expertise in the field of aerodynamics , Nada initiated a detailed analysis of the automotive sector with his business partners . They identified a significant opportunity to disrupt the market by creating truly desirable cars with Italian elegance , that will finally optimise the benefits that EV design affords and redefine the automotive experience , thus leading to the creation of AEHRA .