Badar Khan to Succeed Retiring Cathy Zoi as CEO of EVgo

EV-Charging Company to Elevate Board Member in November
Badak Khan with inset of Cathy Zoi
Badar Khan speaks at a future of energy panel in 2018. (Alex Flynn/Bloomberg News) With inset of Zoi via EVgo.com.

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Electric-car charging company said will retire in November and be succeeded by board member .

Zoi, who has led EVgo since 2017, plans to retire around Nov. 9 and will continue advising the company through the end of the year, Los Angeles-based EVgo said Aug. 2. Khan joined the board last year after five years at utility giant .

“I’m absolutely confident that EVgo will be in extremely capable hands,” Zoi said on the company’s . Khan “embodies the energy and vision that will take this company far.”



The change comes as deployment of public EV-charging stations finally accelerates after years of slow growth. EVgo reported $50.6 million of second-quarter revenue Aug. 2, more than five times what it generated in the same period last year.

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