DETROIT – Normal Motors on Tuesday stated it’s including Jon McNeill, a former govt of Lyft and Tesla, to its board of administrators.
McNeill, 55, is at the moment CEO of DVx Ventures, a enterprise capital agency he co-founded in 2020 that is targeted on investing and rising startup companies. Earlier than then, he served as chief working officer at Lyft and president of worldwide gross sales, supply and repair at Tesla.
GM CEO and Chair Mary Barra, in a launch, cited McNeill’s experiences as “an amazing asset to GM as we speed up towards an all-electric future.”
McNeill’s appointment is notable, because the Detroit automaker has set a objective to outsell Tesla in electrical automobiles by mid-decade, adopted by completely providing EVs by 2035.
“GM is quickly altering to satisfy the world’s want for cleaner and safer transportation and so they’re uncovering new development alternatives with each {hardware} and software program innovation they’re introducing,” McNeill stated.
GM’s board, which has been praised for its gender neutrality in recent times, now has 13 administrators, six of whom are feminine. Twelve of the administrators are impartial.