Max Warburton
Max Warburton is Chief Financial Officer at Wayve, a company pioneering AI technology to power self-driving vehicles.
Chief Financial Officer
London
London
“It is clear that commercial success will require a rapid and efficient development process, fast performance improvement through data aggregation, and scaling via deployment onto cost-effective hardware solutions. Wayve’s end-to-end approach is capable of delivering compelling, industry-leading performance, and the company is ideally positioned to capitalise on this opportunity.”
About Max
As CFO at Wayve, Max partners with the executive team to drive strategic growth and establish key relationships with OEMs and industry partners. He leads Wayve’s finance team, enhancing financial controls and reporting, and oversees investor relations. Leveraging extensive experience in corporate strategy in the automotive sector, Max provides critical insights to support commercial decision-making as Wayve brings its Embodied AI products to the automotive industry. Max’s automotive expertise spans over 25 years, with a career rooted in investment banking, equity research, and corporate strategy at both the OEM and supplier levels. For two decades, he was a top-ranked sell-side financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Bernstein, covering the global auto industry. His work earned him the Institutional Investor No.1 award for 14 years and led to his induction into the Institutional Investor Hall of Fame.
In previous leadership roles, Max served as a Managing Director at UBS and Bernstein, and as Managing Partner at Alliance Bernstein. From 2020 to 2023, he was an Advisor to the Board and Head of Special Projects at Daimler and Mercedes. He has also been a member of the Board of YASA Motors, an innovative start-up developing axial flux electric motors, has acted as Advisor to the Board at Rimac Group, an automotive and energy storage specialist, and acts as a Senior Adviser to Kimmeridge Energy, a US private equity firm.
Max holds degrees from the University of Exeter and the University of Bath, and he conducted post-graduate research on automotive assembly plant efficiency as part of MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program.
