Soroush Salehian (Salehian Dardashti) co-founded Aeva with Mina Rezk in December 2016 and has served as its Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors since that time. Before founding Aeva he worked at Apple from February 2012 to November 2016 as a Manager, Product Development, leading teams developing consumer products and sensing systems, and he holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.