Who are Figure AI's decision-makers?

Brett Adcock is the central figure: Founder, CEO, and the company's primary public voice. His background is unusually strong for a robotics CEO — he has already sold one company (Vettery, acquired by Adecco for $110M in 2018) and taken another public (Archer Aviation, SPAC'd at a $2.7B valuation; NYSE: ACHR). He self-funded Figure's $100M seed round and has structured the company around a tight inner circle of executives from his prior ventures. Adcock has a public profile on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn where he regularly shares technical progress, production milestones, and personal commentary on the humanoid robotics race.

The leadership bench around Adcock includes Dana Berlin (VP of Commercialization & Capital), who runs enterprise deals and investor relationships and sits on the board; Lee Randaccio (VP of Growth), who manages business development and also serves on the board; Damien Bardon (Director, Humanoid Management System), a former Archer and Airbus avionics lead who runs fleet software and embedded systems; Mathew DeDonato (Director, Robotic Systems), who brings deep robotics integration experience from Woven Planet Holdings and Toyota Research Institute; and David McCall (Principal Industrial Designer), a former Rivian and Audi designer who led the industrial design of Figure 02 and Figure 03.

The founding CTO, Jerry Pratt (IHMC, MIT PhD), departed in June 2024 — citing the 'two-body problem' (personal relocation constraints) — to co-found Persona AI, an industrial humanoid startup for shipyard environments. Figure has not publicly announced a replacement CTO as of June 2026, though the AI engineering and robotics systems teams continue to ship at pace (Helix 02 in January 2026, BotQ production ramp in May 2026).

For vendor and enterprise sales targeting Figure AI as a buyer, the buying committee is highly concentrated given the company's stage. Brett Adcock controls major strategic and capital commitments — any deal material to the company's roadmap, or any vendor relationship involving six or seven figures annually, will require his involvement or direct sign-off. Figure operates with a founder-led decision structure typical of high-velocity Series C companies that have not yet built out a formal procurement function.

For operational and commercial vendor relationships — manufacturing equipment, SaaS tools, cloud infrastructure, professional services — Dana Berlin (VP of Commercialization & Capital) and Lee Randaccio (VP of Growth) are the primary access points. Berlin controls capital deployment and investor/partner relationships; Randaccio owns commercial pipeline and business development. For technical partnerships, robotics R&D, and AI infrastructure, Mathew DeDonato and the robotics engineering team are the relevant evaluators. AI compute and GPU/cloud purchasing flows through an engineering team that works closely with the existing Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA relationships formalized at the Series B level. Both Berlin and Randaccio also sit on Figure's nine-member board of directors alongside Brett Adcock, Peter Welinder, Jesse Coors-Blankenship, Gregg Hill, Grant Hosking, Logan Berkowitz, and Colby Adcock.

Figure AI is organized around three primary domains: hardware (robot design, manufacturing, BotQ operations), AI software (Helix VLA model development, simulation, data collection), and commercial operations (enterprise deployment, partnerships, growth). The BotQ manufacturing facility in San Jose anchors the hardware org, with 150+ networked manufacturing workstations and a full custom-developed MES/PLM/ERP/WMS software stack. The AI software org is responsible for both Helix model development and the System 0 / System 1 / System 2 runtime architecture.

The company has grown from approximately 180 employees in early 2024 to roughly 619 by April 2026 — a 3x headcount increase in two years. The San Jose headquarters is the dominant hub for manufacturing, engineering, and design. Secondary research presences have been reported in Pittsburgh, PA (proximate to Carnegie Mellon University's robotics program) and Odense, Denmark (Europe's leading robotics cluster and home to Universal Robots). Figure has not released headcount by location.

The CTO vacancy since June 2024 suggests that technical leadership is currently distributed across the AI and robotics engineering leads rather than held by a single executive. This may create a near-term opportunity for a senior technical hire to unify the AI software and robotics hardware engineering organizations as the company scales toward 50,000 units per year.