General Motors has appointed Sterling Anderson, co-founder and chief product officer of autonomous trucking company Aurora, as executive vice president, global product, and chief product officer. Anderson will oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle for both gas- and electric-powered vehicles at GM.
Anderson, who joins GM on June 2, previously worked at Tesla, leading the Model X program and the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot. He also co-founded Aurora in 2017. The company recently launched America’s first commercial, fully driverless trucking service in Texas.
Anderson holds a master’s and Ph.D. degree in robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to Aurora, he developed MIT’s Intelligent Co-Pilot, a semi-autonomous vehicle safety system.
“GM has a deep heritage, bold vision, and the technical foundation to create products that millions of people love,” Anderson said. “The world is at an inflection point. Advances in foundational technologies have opened opportunities to revolutionize not just how we create products, but what those products can be and do.”
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