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Monumo creates two new senior positions
Monumo, the deeptech company focussed on creating the world’s best electric motors, has promoted Celia Woods-Hall to Chief Operating Officer and Dr Xiaoyan Wang as Chief Motor Designer
Celia joined Monumo in August 2022 and has been instrumental in putting in place the key systems to enable the rapid growth of the company. She previously held senior positions at Arm where she was latterly Chief of Staff to the recently floated $50BN chip designer.
Xiaoyan has spent her career in motor design, gaining her PhD in Electrical Machines from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Monumo, she held senior engineering and research roles at GE and University of Warwick.
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About Monumo
Based in Cambridge and Coventry, UK, Monumo is an Engineering AI company focused on creating complex engineering designs, at speed and ready for production today. Monumo's Anser® engine generates its own data based on the laws of physics, running up to 10 million simulations a day and reducing design time from months to days.
The team, led by Co-founders Dominic Vergine (CEO) and Jarek Rzepecki (CTO), consists of specialists drawn from Arm, Deepmind, CMR Surgical, Microsoft Research, The University of Cambridge and Ricardo, combining deeptech innovation and machine learning with traditional engineering expertise.
Monumo offers a subscription plus token based model and is currently working with customers in the U.S., Europe and Asia initially focused on electric motor systems. In January 2026, Monumo was named an ‘AI company to watch’ by The Sunday Times.
