American automotive company General Motors (GM) has nabbed Aurora‘s co-founder Sterling Anderson for their chief product officer role.
Anderson resigned from the autonomous truck company only last week, recently after Aurora launched its commercial driverless trucking service in Texas.
Reporting to GM President Mark Reuss, Anderson is expected to oversee the product lifecycle for both gas and electric-powered vehicles, including hardware, software, services, and user experience.
GM Chair and CEO, Mary Barra, said:
“Sterling joins GM at a critical time as our industry continues to reinvent itself. He brings decades of leadership in automotive engineering, tech start-ups, and software innovation.”
Before co-founding Aurora in 2017, Anderson worked at Tesla, where he led both the Model X program and the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot.
Anderson’s portfolio in the automotive sector also includes a PhD in Robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his work on autonomous vehicles.
Anderson said:
“GM has a deep heritage, bold vision, and the technical foundation to create products that millions of people love. The world is at an inflection point. Advances in foundational technologies have opened opportunities to revolutionise not just how we create products, but what those products can be and do. I look forward to partnering with the talented team at GM to build on the transformation they’ve already begun.”
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