Uber has appointed Revathi Advaithi, the CEO of Flex as the independent director to its board. Uber’s board had agreed to expand from 11 members in the director board to 17, which was a part of series of new decisions by the company in the past year.
51-year-old Revathi works with Flex and she took over as Flex CEO last year, which is among the world’s largest electronic manufacturers and competes against Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology. Advaithi, a mechanical engineer who grew up in India with four sisters, was appointed to the top job in February of last year after spending roughly 10 years with the electronic manufacturing company Eaton, where she was COO and oversaw its global electrical business. Before that, she spent six years as a VP at Honeywell.
The coronavirus has also put pressure on Flex’s supply chains, even while the company has been diversifying its factories. Advaithi is currently Uber’s third female director.
