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Anduril Hires Former Tesla Manufacturing Official To Help Scale Production

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 25th, 2023

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Anduril Hires Former Tesla Manufacturing Official To Help Scale Production

Keith Flynn, senior vice president of manufacturing at Anduril Industries. Photo: Anduril

Anduril Industries on Wednesday said it has hired Keith Flynn as its first corporate manufacturing executive to help the company as it transitions to quickly scale production from tens and hundreds of items across its portfolio to thousands of products to meet customer demands. Flynn is senior vice president of manufacturing, joining Anduril from Glydways where he spent nearly four years as the head of product engineering for the autonomous public transportation company. Prior to Glydways, Flynn led manufacturing for…

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