Leadership

Meet Our Founders

Jody Nelson

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

Jody Nelson is a co-founder and managing partner at SecuRESafe. He brings more than 20 years of automotive safety experience in development, consulting, assessments, and audits. Click above to learn more.

Gokul Krithivasan

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

Gokul Krithivasan is a co-founder and managing partner of SecuRESafe. He has successfully led and overseen safety-related design and development efforts for several complex, highly interconnected products, including automated driving. Click above to learn more.

Meet Our Partner

Bill Taylor

Partner

Bill Taylor is a thought leader in functional safety, autonomous vehicle safety, and responsible AI. He has held senior engineering and R&D roles at major tier-1 suppliers and co-founded the safety consultancy kVA, which was acquired in 2019. Click above to learn more.

Meet Our Advisory Board

At SRES, we are passionate about our purpose to partner with clients to develop responsibly safe and secure products. We push ourselves every day to be leading experts in functional safety, cybersecurity, autonomy safety and responsible AI. At the same time, we recognize the need to adapt and continuously evolve to create the most impact within the industries we serve. For this reason, we have created an independent Advisory Board consisting of industry veterans with several decades of diverse experience to guide us. Meet the experts who hold SRES to the highest standards of service to our customers.

Robert Dingli

VP of Systems and Safety
Plus

With a career spanning over 25 years, Robert has spent the last decade at the forefront of functional safety for major OEMs and AV startups. He has developed safety concepts and architectures for electric and autonomous platforms, built cross-functional teams, and aligned development with standards like ISO 26262 and SOTIF for global deployment.

Alexander Dolpp

VP Powertrain
Mercedes-Benz

For over 25 years, Alexander has specialized in developing safety-critical software for hybrid and electric vehicles. He has built and led global teams advancing motor control, calibration, and base software for electrified powertrains, with deep focus on ISO 26262, ASPICE, and embedded software quality.

Chad Haase

Lead – Functional Safety
Stack AV

Chad is a strategic leader with over 25 years of experience bridging the gap between traditional automotive systems and the future of autonomy. He has built AV safety programs, developed ML safety case strategies, and advanced organizational safety culture and systems aligned with ISO 26262, ISO 8800, and ASPICE.

Kyle Fabris

Director of Functional Safety
Analog Devices

Kyle brings more than 15 years of functional safety leadership across the Tier 1 supplier and semiconductor sectors. He has designed and delivered ASIL D-compliant projects, built and led global safety teams, and developed scalable safety processes across hardware, software, and AI-enabled systems.

Matthew Wood

Vice President of Autonomy Engineering Verification & Validation
May Mobility

Matthew has 18+ years in automotive safety and autonomy, with leadership roles at Cruise, Motional, Uber ATG, and Cariad (Volkswagen Group). At Cariad, he led global safety engineering across VW and Audi and supported certification of zonal architectures to ASIL standards. He previously led autonomy validation at Cruise, contributed to the ISO 26262 and 21448 (SOTIF) standards, and co-authored Safety First for Automated Driving.