AEye Appoints Laura Wrisley as Chief Revenue Officer

AEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIDR), a global leader in software-defined, high-performance lidar solutions, today announced the appointment of Laura Wrisley as Chief Revenue Officer, effective August 18, 2026.

Ms. Wrisley brings more than two decades of commercial leadership in data transport, lidar, and autonomous robots to her new role. She most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Vayu Robotics (subsequently acquired by Serve Robotics), where she led market strategy and commercialization for an early-stage autonomous delivery platform. Prior to that, she spent over four years at Velodyne Lidar, rising to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, where she scaled global revenue and built commercial relationships with automotive OEMs including Ford, GM, Hyundai, and Volvo, while also expanding the business into robotics, drones, mapping, and defense markets. Her track record of translating early-stage technology into structured, repeatable commercial growth — combined with deep experience selling into automotive, defense, and industrial sensing markets — positions her to help scale AEye's go-to-market strategy.