Former Volvo Automobiles Chief Know-how Officer Henrik Inexperienced has joined Swedish autonomous truck startup Einride.

Inexperienced will likely be normal supervisor of autonomous applied sciences on the firm, which final yr acquired regulatory approval to function its self-driving truck within the U.S.

Einride in 2019 grew to become the primary firm on the earth to deploy an autonomous, electrical automobile on a public street. The deployment befell at DB Schenker’s facility in Jonkoping, Sweden, in response to the corporate.

Inexperienced, 50, will lead Einride’s improvement and deployment of applied sciences “that may reshape the way in which items are moved globally,” the corporate stated in launch.

Inexperienced, who till final yr was thought-about a powerful candidate to rise to CEO on the Volvo, left the automaker on the finish of January. Inexperienced’s place, head of superior know-how and sustainability, was dissolved and his duties had been moved to different elements of the enterprise.

A number of promotions

Initially of 2022, Inexperienced was Volvo’s chief product officer, one of many many key titles he has held throughout almost 30 years with the corporate.

Throughout former CEO Hakan Samuelsson’s decade-long tenure as boss, Inexperienced was promoted six occasions inside eight years. His earlier posts included chief know-how officer and head of R&D.

He joined Volvo’s high board, the chief administration crew, in 2016 as head of R&D. In 2019, he was promoted to chief know-how officer.

Inexperienced was named a 2019 Eurostar by Automotive Information Europe due to his work creating what Samuelsson known as the strongest automobile lineup within the firm’s historical past.

Below Inexperienced, the XC60 was named 2018 World Automobile of the Yr, the XC40 received the 2018 European Automobile of the Yr award, and Volvo grew to become a key participant within the plug-in hybrid and full-electric automobile sectors.

New boss, new route

Inexperienced’s fast stand up Volvo’s organizational chart ended a yr in the past when the corporate went exterior its inner ranks and selected former Dyson and Blackberry government Jim Rowan to succeed Samuelsson as CEO.

The primary outward signal that Inexperienced’s vertical trajectory had reached its top got here final June when he was handed over for one of many two deputy CEO posts Volvo created.

As well as, Inexperienced was one among 4 individuals who had been moved off the chief administration crew to a decrease tier known as the group administration crew.
 
Einride founder and CEO Robert Falck stated within the launch that Inexperienced’s “intensive observe document in bringing electrical, autonomous know-how to the automotive trade makes him the best candidate to guide our efforts in remodeling the freight trade.”