QuantumScape Corporation announced that on March 4, 2026, Ross Niebergall was appointed to the Board of Directors of QuantumScape Corporation, to serve as a director with a term of office expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders. Dr. Niebergall is an experienced executive with decades of service in the defense sector, leading research and development and technology commercialization in defense applications for multiple defense primes. Dr. Niebergall has served on the board of V2X Inc., a provider of critical mission solutions and support services to the defense customers worldwide, since January 2026.
He served as President of the Aerojet Rocketdyne segment for L3Harris Technologies Inc. (L3Harris), an aerospace and defense technology company, from 2023 to 2025. Previously, Dr. Niebergall served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of L3Harris from 2019 to 2023, and as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Harris Corporation, a major U.S. defense and communications technology company from 2017 until 2019, when it merged into L3Harris. He previously worked for more than 10 years at RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation), an aerospace and defense company, holding various roles including Vice President, Engineering and Technology of Raytheon and CEO of Thales-Raytheon Systems LLC.
Dr. Niebergall has a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Regina in Canada, and a Master's and Doctorate degree in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.
