Two of Faraday Future’s most senior executives have left the company this week following reports of financial troubles at the electric car startup and just ahead of its upcoming unveiling event in CES next month. While the company doesn’t have an official CEO, it was listing eight top executives on its website. Two of them, Marco Mattiacci and Joerg Sommer, quit this week, according to sources inside the company, and we are told that Chinese billionaire and the main investor of Faraday Future, Jia Yueting, has virtually taken over the company.

In June, Faraday Future hired Marco Mattiacci, former President & CEO of Ferrari North America (2010 to 2014), as Global Chief Brand & Commercial Officer for the company.

In September, the company hired Joerg Sommer, former Senior Vice President Product Marketing & Strategy at VW, to lead the “product marketing and go-to-market planning”.

The two execs were amongst the most high-profile hires of the company and they sent out press releases when they hired each of them.

We are told that they left quietly this week. We asked the company to comment on their departures, but we didn’t get an answer–though they removed both Mattiacci and Sommer from their executive page on their website.

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