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LiveWire: Leadership Change
LiveWire CEO Karim Donnez resigned and the electric motorcycle company named Roy Gallagher as Chief Revenue Officer, signalling a revenue-leadership shift alongside the top-level vacancy.
- What happened
- LiveWire CEO Karim Donnez resigned and the electric motorcycle company named Roy Gallagher as Chief Revenue Officer, signalling a revenue-leadership shift alongside the top-level vacancy.
- Who
- LiveWire · Australia & New Zealand
- When
- 2026-10-26
- So what
- A change at the top rarely stays at the top.
The leadership read
A change at the top rarely stays at the top. LiveWire's move reshapes the layer beneath it in the sector as a new leader sets priorities and the team re-forms. Watch the first two or three appointments that follow; they signal direction more reliably than any statement.
Market context: MitchelLake's Talent Market Index sits at 109 (Hot), up 7.3 on the prior month; Oceania hiring signal is running easing (-5.9pts).
LiveWire: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Oceania signal flow; 3 tracked across 139 days.
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