Pickle Robot, a company that builds autonomous unloading robots for warehouses and distribution centres, announced a new chief financial officer just days after a report of a significant deal with UPS.
The Charlestown, Massachusetts-based company announced on Thursday that it hired Jeff Evanson as its CFO. Evanson had been consulting for the company since September and recently joined full-time.
Evanson previously served as the vice president of global investor relations and strategy at Tesla from 2011 to 2017. In that role, he worked directly with Elon Musk and helped the company raise debt and equity financing to support the launch of multiple Tesla vehicle lines and company acquisitions.
Evanson will be Pickle’s first CFO and joins the company as it was founded in 2018, with around $100 million in venture capital raised, and as it reportedly expands its partnership with shipping giant UPS. According to Bloomberg, UPS is investing $120 million to purchase 400 of Pickle’s robots, with deployment beginning in late 2026 and early 2027.
Pickle declined to comment on this week’s UPS news. A Pickle spokesperson confirmed that UPS has been a Pickle customer for a few years, but wouldn’t specify when the partnership began.
