Cleef Thackwell

Head of Commercial HiSpeed Ltd

Cleef Thackwell is Head of Commercial at HiSpeed Ltd., where he leads commercial strategy, business development, and the market deployment of advanced electric drive technologies.

He has more than 15 years of experience in electric machines, traction drives, and global business development across the automotive sector. Before joining HiSpeed Ltd., he held electric drive engineering roles at Jaguar Land Rover, where he led traction motor design, and at Volkswagen AG, where he designed motors induction motors for the early years of the MEB platform.

He began his career at Continental Automotive GmbH in electromechanical R&D, optimising stepper motors. He holds a double Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and ENSEA, France.