Jennifer Erfurth - Chief People & Culture Officer and Vice President for Human Resources, ZeroAvia

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Work Background

ABXChief People Officer

Dec. 2020Charlotte, North Carolina, United StatesSelected to be the first Chief People Officer (CPO) with responsibility for building the organization’s people strategy, leading human resources, and shaping the culture to drive short-term results and long-term value creation: People Strategy and Organizational Design: Established the vision, People Strategy Roadmap, and reorganized HR to quickly implement newly created best-in-class systems/processes and unify 8 locations to facilitate growth & improved employee experience. • Optimized HR Processes/Systems: Entire HR process and HRIS footprint built from the ground up and harmonized across ABX to create efficiencies and $1.5M in YOY savings. • Organizational Structure: Completed reorganization and top-graded leadership (16 of top 20) via ABX talent review/succession process; rightsized business saving $7M (annualized); created an agile, data-driven leadership team to drive strategy execution. • Capability Building: New HR team, processes, systems, and organizational capabilities generated over $12M in annualized savings in 3 years. Talent-Focus: Implemented talent strategies to recruit, retain, and elevate top talent across ABX via EVP/Brand, internal recruitment pipeline, and strategy linked to both performance and variable compensation. • Leadership Development/Training: Conducted needs assessment, built job architecture, and established learning organization platform to highlight meaningful work, create career pathing, and prepare team members for expanded roles. • Succession: Established robust Organizational & People Review (OPR) process; created culture of promoting from within and building future leaders. Culture Shaping and Change Management: Facilitated transformative growth (i.e., 4 times EBITDA with fewer people) through intentional culture change, enhanced employee experience, and capability building across both people & ABX. • Championed the “One ABX” Culture transformation by unlocking new organizational capabilities and a united way of working.

PEG ConsultingPrincipal and Founder

Nov. 2019Charlotte, North Carolina, United StatesPEG Consulting (www.pegconsultingsolutions.com) is a management consulting firm that specializes in transforming organizations through a focus on people, experience, and growth. Through targeted work in the areas of Transactions, Talent, and Transformation, any organization can be put on the path to emerge an even better organization in the “now” with strong financials and positive impacts on its employees, customers, and shareholders. While most of Corporate America is trying to figure out what the “new normal” will look like, PEG Consulting helps pioneering organizations create their own path by learning to operate in the now. PEG Consulting helps businesses go from surviving to thriving by creating simple processes, systems, and tools that improves efficiency, creates capability, and unlocks value for the organization. Examples include: • Cost Containment & Risk Mitigation • Diligence Assessment/Merger & Acquisition Support • HR Audit & Evaluation • HR Metrics & Capability Building • Technology & Vendor Management PEG Consulting assists HR, Managers, Business Owners, and Executives in establishing a talent agenda and strategy that brings out everyone’s highest potential and unleashes hyper-growth for the organization. Examples include: • Critical Skill/Competency Development & Performance Management • Employee Experience & Engagement • Succession Planning & Leadership Development • Talent Assessment, Acquisition, Management, & Retention • Vision & People Strategy Roadmap PEG Consulting partners with the CEO, CPO, and other Senior Leaders to transform organizations from the traditional to leveraging people and organizational capabilities to become agile in the now. Examples include: • Business & Culture Integration • Change Management & Culture Building • Organizational Capability Building (i.e., DE&I, globalization, digital transformation) • Organizational Design & Structure • Purpose – Defining Your “Why” and “NorthStar”

EnPro Industries Inc.Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Feb. 2017 - Jun. 2019Charlotte, North Carolina AreaTapped for enterprise-wide CHRO role following success as top HR executive for two EnPro subsidiaries. Created company-wide vision, operational roadmap, and HR strategy to support company mission. Report directly to CEO. Budget: $4M; Staff: 12 (100+ including Center of Expertise (COE) leaders, 6 divisional HR heads, and their teams). Client Group: 6,000 • Drove ~$40M in savings, cost avoidance, and efficiencies to significantly improve the employee experience and corporate culture by harmonizing recruitment, performance management, L&D, employee relations, and HRIS practices across 6 subsidiaries and 60 locations. • Dramatically improved acquisition due diligence by introducing strategy for assessing talent and culture fit. Integrated 3 acquisitions that have all exceeded targets, and significantly addressed previous challenge of divesting non-performing acquisitions due to incomplete vetting. • Built strategic framework for leveraging HR processes to fuel growth and efficiency. Linked talent strategy to clear ROI. Initiated senior/C-suite succession planning and career pathing program resulting in 2 senior executive promotions with another 4 high-potentials in the pipeline. • Spearheaded total rewards strategy, including development of online statements for employees and “flex” compensation model with potential to reduce expense by 18% while better aligning with employee needs. • Championed and led enterprise-wide HR technology process to identify current state and create vision aligned with future people strategy. Optimized technology via AI, RPA, and big data platform. • Led business process harmonization to reduce data entry by 80% (~$300k in annual operational savings).

EnPro Industries Inc.Vice President, Human Resources - Europe

Jan. 2014 - Jun. 2017Lyon Area, FrancePartnered with senior leadership at four operating divisions to lead, integrate, and deliver effective people strategies and solutions across EnPro Europe comprised of 20+ European sites. • Led the ongoing culture change throughout EnPro Europe to facilitate globalization and our Dual Bottom Line culture which promotes employee development through purposeful work plus drives adoption, engagement, and momentum throughout our global workforce. • Defined and executed people strategies to support the unique goals of all four operating divisions while ensuring that the people, processes, and organizational culture are aligned to achieve continuous improvement in every business facet. • Led organizational development and change initiatives so that the company had the right talent in the right positions and alignment between strategy, talent, and execution/organizational results.

EnPro Industries Inc.Global Vice President of Human Resources (Technetics Division)

Sep. 2013 - Dec. 2017Lyon Area, FrancePartnered with senior leadership to deliver effective HR solutions aligned with business and people objectives in a dual HR leadership role for Technetics, ($250M 14-facility subsidiary) and EnPro Europe (comprised of 20+ European sites across four operating divisions). Reported to Division President. Budget: $1.5M; Staff: 20; Client Group: 2,500 • Selected to lead change management initiative across 4 of the 6 divisions to fuel growth/productivity, eliminate operational silos, reduce redundancies, and elevate information sharing and knowledge transfer. • Captured $4M in savings by shifting Technetics from 10 individual operational silos to 4 market-based business units with a single, unified global shared service. • Partnered with CIO to lead GDPR data privacy compliance initiative. Achieved on-time roll out and brought organization into compliance and avoided $60M in penalties. • Developed repeatable scalable model for driving acquisition due diligence and HR integrations that was leveraged to assimilate 2 new companies, supported R&D/organic growth initiatives, and led a consistent and compassionate downsizing and plant closing following a company divestiture in total representing a 40% increase in overall P&L • Introduced a culture change initiative with consistent messaging, policies, procedures, and best practices across the enterprise that contributed to improved cross-country knowledge sharing and collaboration and employee retention metrics that were nearly double the industry average.

EnPro Industries Inc.Vice President, Human Resources (STEMCO Division)

Nov. 2007 - Sep. 2013Longview, Texas AreaManaged all aspects of HR strategy, leadership/talent development, recruitment/selection, compensation/benefits, and employee relations. Also charged with leading Environmental, Health, Safety (EH&S) and IT in US, Canada, Mexico, China, and Australia. Budget: $2M; Staff: 15 Client Group: 900+ • Developed and implemented strategic M&A, talent acquisition, organizational change, total rewards, technology, and compliance initiatives during period of explosive growth: 194% revenue increase, 300% business line growth, 300% increase in headcount, 900% jump in number of locations.

ITTDirector, Human Resources (Flowtronex Division)

Mar. 2002 - Oct. 2007Dallas/Fort Worth AreaManaged all aspects of Human Resources including, strategic planning, staffing management, employee development, recruitment, compensation/benefits, employee relations, HRIS, legal compliance, and EH&S. • Introduced HR rigor and innovation to drive efficiency, eliminate redundancies, and save ~$4M.

ITTManager, Human Resources (Flowtronex Division)

Jul. 2001 - Mar. 2002Dallas/Fort Worth Area

ITTTraining and Development Specialist

Sep. 1999 - Jul. 2001Dallas/Fort Worth Area

West CorporationCorporate Trainer

Oct. 1998 - Jul. 1999Greater Omaha Area