Teresa Covington was promoted to chief financial officer at AeroVironment in 2017. She previously served as the company's vice president of finance and was the interim chief financial officer in 2015.

Prior to joining AeroVironment, Ms. Covington served eleven years as chief financial officer of Line 6, Inc., a venture-backed startup and innovation leader in the musical instruments industry. She started her finance career at Mattel Toys and had financial leadership positions at Harman International and Equity Marketing.

She earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.