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Stephen Girsky

Managing partner of VectoIQ, an investment and advisory firm focused on automotive, industrial tech, and mobility.

Director
Updated Nov 6, 2026·Latest SEC filing Nov 4, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Stephen Girsky

Stephen Girsky runs VectoIQ as managing partner, a firm that invests in and advises automotive, industrial technology, and mobility businesses. He brings more than 35 years of experience across investing, Wall Street research, corporate leadership, and public company board work. He also sits as a director of Psionic, Inc., which builds navigation technology for land, air, and space vehicles that lose GPS signal.

Girsky was vice chairman of General Motors and president of GM Europe. He led the supervisory board at Adam Opel AG and served as a GM director from 2009 to 2016. Earlier in his career he spent over seventeen years working at PaineWebber and Morgan Stanley, then served as president of Centerbridge Industrial Partners, before founding VectoIQ.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Stephen Girsky in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Psionic, Inc. Current
Director
2026 – Present · Hampton, VA
Psionic's laser-based navigation sensors give ground vehicles, aircraft, and spacecraft precise position and velocity data when GPS signals are jammed, blocked, or unavailable.
VectoIQ Current
Managing Partner
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (From 2018)
Manager
2018 – Present
General Motors
Vice Chairman
2009 – 2016
GM Europe
President
PaineWebber
Morgan Stanley
Centerbridge Industrial Partners
President
Adam Opel AG
Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Stephen Girsky works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Psionic, Inc. · Form D/A, Nov 4, 2026
SS
Stephen Sandford
Founder and CEO, director
JM
Diego Pierrottet
Diego Pierrottet
Founder and Chief Engineer
Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack
Senior Vice President SurePath™
DA
VC
Vicki Cleavenger
Executive officer
DC
David Cummings
Executive officer

Sources

  1. SECPsionic, Inc. Form D/A, filed Nov 4, 2026
  2. sec_filingVectoIQ Acquisition Corp. administrative services agreement, S-1/A exhibit
  3. sec_filingVectoIQ Acquisition Corp. S-1/A signature page