FIGURE - Key Persons
Brett Adcock is the Founder & CEO of Figure and long-time technology entrepreneur. Brett has been building companies for 20 years, and now his sole focus is building Figure with a 30-year view to positively impact the future of humanity. Prior to Figure, Brett founded Archer Aviation, an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to improve mobility in cities. Brett built Archer into a globally leading electric aerospace company; he raised over $1.0 billion of capital, took Archer public on the NYSE at a valuation of $2.7 billion, signed a $1.5 billion commercial agreement with United Airlines, and vertically integrated aircraft design, flight software, actuation, electric motors, and battery systems. At the age of 26, Brett founded Vettery, an online talent marketplace built to solve the problem around human capital and match the right people to the right job opportunity. Vettery was acquired by The Adecco Group, the largest recruiting company in the world, in 2018 for $110 million. Brett was born and raised in central Illinois on a third-generation agricultural farm and attended the University of Florida.