GM stops ex-Tesla, Aurora Exec Sterling Anderson as Chief Product Officer

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Detroit – General Motors has hired Sterling Anderson, a previous one Tesla Executive and co -founder of the Autonomous Vehicle Company Aurora innovationas a chief product officer.

In the newly created position, Anderson will monitor the “end-to-end product life cycle for both gas and electrical vehicles, including hardware, software, services and user experience, said GM on Monday.

Anderson, who worked for Tesla for two years before he founded Aurora in 2017, will start on June 2 with the car manufacturer Detroit. He will report to GM President Mark Reuss, the long -time product manager of the car manufacturer or local “car type”, to the GM President.

Anderson is the youngest ex-Tesla manager who joins GM, which, despite the slower than expected introduction in the entire industry, continues to introduce new technologies and electric vehicles. GM previously raised the former Tesla executives Kurt Kelty to run batteries. Jens Peter “JP” Clausen, who had recently left the car manufacturer after led to production for about a year. And Jon McNeill as a member of the company committee.

GM tries to compensate for its introduction of electric vehicles with gas -powered models at the same time. The progressive technologies such as its Super Cruise Advanced Driver Assistance System to better compete against Tesla-the US EV and software managers from China.

“Sterling brings decades of leadership in automotive technology and transformative software innovation into its new role and is the right guide to help GM now and in the future,” said Reuss in a press release.

Mary Barra, CEO and chairman of GM, added: “Sterling will help to accelerate the pace of progress-our passion and vision for beautifully designed, powerful and technological vehicles.”

Anderson was recently Chief Product Officer near Aurora, whom he participated in CEO Chris Urmson and others. Aurora announced that he would leave the company on June 1 in a regulatory submission last week.

At Tesla, Anderson headed teams for the controversial “Autopilot” model SUV and Teslas advanced driver assistance system “Autopilot”.