Articles By Jon Barad

Jon Barad is vice president of business development at Velodyne Lidar, where he leads efforts to engage and develop strong partnerships with companies in emerging autonomous markets, including robotics, drones, trucking, smart cities, security and more. In this role, he works closely with the ecosystem to help fuel its growth. To enable this mission, he established and leads the company’s Automated with Velodyne partner program, which is aimed at providing business development support, marketing assistance and technical support to partner companies.