Aston Martin on Thursday announced the signing of Alfa Romeo chief designer Luca Furbato, in what the expanded Formula One team said was the first of several significant new appointments.
Furbato, who will take on the role of engineering director, is expected to join the Silverstone-based team before the 2022 season.
Aston Martin's Technical Director Andrew Greene will become Chief Technical Officer with immediate effect.
Furbatto has previously worked for more than two decades in the sport at McLaren and Red Bull-owned Toro Rosso, now AlphaTauri.
"This is the first of several important appointments in line with our ambition to position Aston Martin at the front of the grid," Green said in a statement at the French Grand Prix.
Aston Martin Team Principal Otmar Szafner has said that the team expects to add some 250 employees before moving to a new factory in 2022.
"Right now we're on about 535 people and we're working strategically on whatever is the right size, under the region or cost range of about 800," he told www.formula1.com.
The team competed as Racing Point last year, after taking over the assets of the now-defunct Force India, which went into administration in 2018, and changed its name to Aston Martin for 2021.