Self-driving know-how agency Aurora Innovation Inc. appointed Ossa Fisher as its first president.

The transfer comes as a part of the corporate’s efforts to arrange for a industrial launch of autonomous vehicles.

Fisher joins Aurora from Istation, an education-technology firm based mostly in Dallas. She oversaw engineering, product, gross sales and advertising divisions in her function as Istation’s president and COO, a place she held since 2019.

At Aurora, Fisher will play a central function in scaling operations and sustaining relationships with key companions like FedEx Corp., Uber Freight, Werner, in addition to truckmakers resembling PACCAR and AB Volvo.

She is going to keep in Dallas, the corporate’s rising operational hub. Aurora had lower than 20 workers in Dallas on the finish of 2020; that quantity rose to just about 120 by the tip of 2022, based on an organization spokesman.

That is a small fraction of the corporate’s general 1,600 workers, at present unfold out over the nation in Mountain View, Calif., Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, Bozeman, Detroit and Colorado.

Aurora intends to commercially launch self-driving vehicles with out human security drivers aboard in 2024.

Whereas the corporate has not stated particularly which route will likely be used for the inaugural operations, it at present hauls items whereas testing on routes that join a terminal within the Dallas suburb of Palmer with Houston, and alongside separate route that hyperlinks Fort Value and El Paso.

Born in Sweden, Fisher moved to the U.S. in 1981 on the age of 4. Earlier than Istation, she held positions at Goldman Sachs and consulting agency Bain & Co.