David King

David King joined as senior vice president of engineering to lead a new UK-based operation for Fisker. Most recently, David served as vice president and chief special operations officer at Aston Martin Lagonda.

David offers more than 30 years of vehicle engineering and product development leadership experience, primarily at Aston Martin, including serving as president of Aston Martin Racing. His accomplishments include the DB7 V12 Vantage and clean-sheet platform development resulting in the DB9 and Vantage. David’s work on several joint-OEM, rapid development platform-sharing projects with Ford, Jaguar and Daimler is particularly relevant to Fisker’s asset-light, compressed timeline philosophy.

Most recently, David successfully led a team of approximately 100 engineers to launch a series of specialty vehicles and develop the ‘Q by Aston Martin’ bespoke and customization service.