Automotive know-how provider Aptiv on Tuesday named former Microsoft govt Sophia Velastegui as its new chief product officer.

Velastegui will begin on Feb. 1 and report on to CEO Kevin Clark, stated Aptiv spokeswoman Sarah McKinney.

The announcement comes shortly after the corporate agreed to pay $4.3 billion for software program agency Wind River, strengthening its grip on software program integration in cars.

Velastegui shall be based mostly out of the Boston workplace and can work intently with the Wind River workforce with a view to “strengthen Aptiv’s full-stack choices with distinctive cloud-native services and products,” McKinney stated in a press release to Automotive Information.

“Together with her experience and the gifted workforce of engineers she leads, Aptiv will proceed to speed up the business and society’s transition to a software-defined future,” Clark stated in a press release.

Earlier than working at Microsoft, Velastegui headed Nest’s Silicon and Structure Roadmap workforce, staying with the group after it was acquired by Google to assist scale up the group. She has additionally labored for Apple, main a workforce that leveraged synthetic intelligence and machine studying throughout all of Apple’s superior know-how platforms.

“The following wave of progress for automotive will come from the software-defined automobile,” Velastegui stated in Aptiv’s assertion. “I’m excited to hitch Aptiv at this pivotal second.”