Gerald A. Wiegert

          Advisor,                                                     Gerald A. Wiegert - Advisor


Mr. Wiegert currently serves as Vector Motors and Aquajet Corporations Chairman of the Board, President, & CEO. Mr. Wiegert founded VMC, the descendant of his original Vector Aeromotive Corporation, in 1998.  Since then he has been primarily responsible for the corporate organization and design and development of the new Vector Avtech automobile. Mr. Wiegert developed the conceptual specifications and was responsible for the engineering, styling and overall design of the original Vector W2, Vector W8 and all Vector Avtech WX3 prototypes. He will personally oversee the design engineering criteria and quality standards for subsequent VMC automobiles. Mr. Wiegert leads the VMC management team. As the inventor and designer of all of the Vector supercars including the all new Vector WX-8 Hypercar, Mr. Wiegert has over 35 years experience and is a world-renown expert and pioneer in the field of advanced vehicle product design, including the original design of the Jet Ski, 4-Wheel ATV, and the Airstream Motor home, all of which achieved international commercial success. Mr. Wiegert founded and was CEO of Vector Aeromotive Corporation, the first American manufacturer of exotic supercars, which he took public on the NASDAQ and which achieved a market valuation of over $100 million. Mr. Wiegert designed and engineered the Vector W8 Twin Turbo. With a top speed capability of over 220 mph, Road & Track Magazine declared the Vector the fastest production car in the world, outperforming Ferrari, Lamborghini, and all other exotic supercars during the years the Vector W8’s were produced.

As the Founder, President, and Chairman of several companies, both private and public. Mr. Wiegert’s primary leadership roles have been related to inventing/developing vehicles and products, developing business plans, managing and initiating capital raise functions. This includes raising over $100 million through venture capital, IPO, secondary offerings, and private placements. Mr. Wiegert founded and formed two NASDAQ Small-Cap listed Corporations, one  exceeded $100 million in market capitalization value and the other over one billion. He has managed the development of multiple businesses, set up the facilities, negotiated for and purchased machinery and equipment for production, recruited and managed all technical, R&D, tooling, financial, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and quality control activities. Mr. Wiegert also served as the lead and originating investor in all his companies and is experienced in all aspects of corporate management, manufacturing, prototyping, technology, assessment and implementation, product advertising strategy, legal and corporate alliances, licensing, dealer development, media interface, and other corporate disciplines. Mr. Wiegert has been responsible for corporate strategy positioning for multiple companies within their respective industries, as well as media interface, investor relations, and interaction with the financial community at large. Mr. Wiegert’s exceptional team building experience has related to technically advanced Land, Sea, & Air programs, R&D, and sophisticated manufacturing systems.

Prior to his involvement with Vector Motors and Aquajet Corporation, Mr. Wiegert served as an independent consultant specializing in advanced vehicle and product design for various companies including Industrial Design Affiliates, Innova Inc., once the largest independent toy development company in the US, Toyota Motor Company, as an  automotive design and market advisor to the president, Synthetex, and Trans State Financial Corporation. He was responsible for the initial and final design of the Wetbike and worked on the design, development, and prototype assembly of the original JetSki, which was subsequently licensed, to Kawasaki and Yamaha by its inventor. Mr. Wiegert worked as a consultant to Industrial Design Affiliates where he designed the original Airstream Motor home, worked on motorcycle engine design, and other consumer products. He also was involved in the product designs for a variety of vehicles including motorcycles, electric automobiles, trucks, and exotic sports cars. Some of these designs were performed on a consulting basis and others were the entrepreneurial foundation of Mr. Wiegert’s personal start-up companies.  

Mr. Wiegert has organized, managed, and attended scores of scientific, aerospace, consumer electronics, motorsports, auto industry trade and corporate finance road shows all over the United States , Europe , the Middle East , and Asia . With expert ability, he has given corporate presentations to the financial community in major cities across the U.S. and around the world. He has been a principal key note speaker to the entire facility and staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL), to colleges and universities, to auto clubs such as the Porsche Owners Club, Ferrari Owners Club, Mercedes Benz Gull Wing Club, Pantera Owners Club, and numerous other clubs and associations. 

From 1978 to 1987 Mr. Wiegert initiated the research, design, and development of the world’s most technologically advanced, ultra-high performance exotic automobile, the Vector W8-Twin Turbo Supercar, the World’s first Supercar. In November 1987, Mr. Wiegert founded the Vector Aeromotive Corporation, a NASDAQ company with over a 100 employees and dozens of consultants, and served as the President, Chairman and CEO, responsible for the design, engineering, managing the manufacturing and marketing of the fastest and most powerful production car in the world. Vector was the first and only American manufacturer of exotic supercars. He also supervised financial functions and due diligence requirements for underwriters, investment bankers, the SEC, and NASDAQ. Mr. Wiegert negotiated all underwriting, secondary offerings, and private placements.

Mr. Wiegert was responsible for raising over $75 million dollars of capital for Vector Aeromotive. Mr. Wiegert formed Aquajet Corporation after a year of initial research and development that lead to the invention, design and development of the Jetbike. Mr. Wiegert won the NMMA (National Marine Manufacturers Association) Innovation Award for the Boats category in Orlando, Florida and a Design News award for the Jetbike, from the largest circulation design and engineering publication in the world. Wiegert also won and received the First Place Award for Design Excellence at the Invention Convention in Pasadena, California. Gerald Wiegert has been a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE), the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Management Association (AMA). Mr. Wiegert has over seven years of college and attended Ferris State University, Northrop University and received his B.S. degree from Art Center College of Design and The Center for Creative Studies (CCS). Gerald Wiegert is a renowned international designer and entrepreneur with hundreds of stories in various consumer, automotive, and technical feature color cover publications such as Jet Action, Watercraft Illustrated, Splash, WaveRider, Road & Track, Automobile Magazine, Southbay Lifestyle, DuPont Magazine, NASA Tech Briefs, Car & Driver, Dream Car Collection Books, Extraordinary Automobiles and many others. Mr. Wiegert has also received feature television and radio exposure, some of which include Entertainment Tonight, Beyond 2000, Next Step, C-Net, Good Morning America, and Financial News Network (FNN) to name a few. Gerald Wiegert has completed seven years of college and graduated with distinction from Art Center College of Design with a Bachelor of Science in Transportation and Product Design in 1970. Mr. Wiegert received five years of full-tuition scholarship from General Motors Corporation from 1965 through 1970 while attending the Center for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He was one of only 10 university students selected by General Motors to participate in an Advanced Vehicle Design internship at the GM Technical Center in 1968 from competing students at over 70 colleges and universities. Gerald Wiegert additionally holds an honorable certificate in Advanced Aircraft design from Northrop University and has been involved in extensive wing-in-ground (WIG) effect flying boat/marine craft research and design.