Rudi Rankin

Rudi Rankin is the current Head of Marketing at Wayve. Prior to this, they were a Consultant from February 2017 to July 2021, during which time they provided strategic counsel and developed innovative brand and creative strategies for legacy brands and start-ups, including Waymo (formerly Google Self Driving Project), Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Hyland's Inc., Jacuzzi, Indian Motorcycle, TRX, Nixon Watches, Ultimate Ears and Lenovo.

Rankin has also served as Director, Cultural Marketing at GreenLight Media & Marketing from November 2012 to May 2015, and Manager, Corporate Sustainability at Avery Dennison from July 2010 to November 2012.

Most recently, Rankin was Sr. Strategic Brand Planner at TBWA\Chiat\Day from January 2004 to December 2010. In this role, they were responsible for developing and managing integrated global marketing communications programs for Nissan North America.

Rudi Rankin has a B.A. in Urban Studies from Brown University and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School. Rudi is certified from the Global Reporting Initiative in GRI Certification for Sustainability Reporting (2012).

Some of their coworkers include Pablo Castellanos García - VP, Engineering, Jai Kapoor - Head of Finance, and Haibo E. - Director of Product. Rudi Rankin reports to Alex Kendall, Co-Founder & CEO.