Rocket Lab’s Jamie France joins FTN as an adviser

Jamie France, ex-Rocket Lab, joins FTN Motion as a technical adviser.

Words by Chris Keall (extracted from his article in the New Zealand Herald).

Jamie France, an early Rocket Lab employee who was until recently global launch director for its Electron rocket, responsible for a team of 330 engineers and technicians across NZ and the US has joined FTN Motion as a technical advisor.

France saw FTN was advertising for a chairman. While he wasn’t interested in that role, he did want to come on board as an adviser. Luke Sinclair, Founder at FTN Motion, said given France joined Rocket Lab in 2014, when it was still essentially in start-up mode, then oversaw huge growth in its operations, he’s well-placed to whip FTN’s structure and systems into place as it seeks to scale up.

“As New Zealanders, we all resonate with the John Britten and Burt Munro stories of creative inventors taking on the world and showing what can be done with fresh thinking, determination and excellent engineering,” France says.