General Motors has appointed Sterling Anderson, co-founder and chief product officer of autonomous trucking company Aurora, as executive VP, global product, and chief product officer. Reporting to GM President Mark Reuss, Anderson will oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle for both gasoline- and electric-powered vehicles, including hardware, software, services, and user experience.

Anderson, who joins GM on 2 June, will be based in GM’s Mountain View Tech Center in California.

Aurora recently launched America’s first commercial, fully driverless trucking service in Texas, running regularly between Houston and Dallas. 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 holds a master’s and Ph.D. degree in robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He developed MIT’s Intelligent Co-Pilot, a semi-autonomous vehicle safety system, which helped lay the foundation for major progress in how humans and machines can work together more effectively.