GM adds former Lyft and Tesla executive Jon McNeill as board member

DETROIT – General Motors connected Tuesday said it is adding Jon McNeill, a erstwhile enforcement of Lyft and Tesla, to its committee of directors.

McNeill, 55, is presently CEO of DVx Ventures, a task superior steadfast helium co-founded successful 2020 that's focused connected investing and increasing startup businesses. Before then, helium served arsenic main operating serviceman astatine Lyft and president of planetary sales, transportation and work astatine Tesla.

GM CEO and Chair Mary Barra, successful a release, cited McNeill's experiences arsenic "a tremendous plus to GM arsenic we accelerate toward an all-electric future."

McNeill's assignment is notable, arsenic the Detroit automaker has acceptable a extremity to outsell Tesla successful electrical vehicles by mid-decade, followed by exclusively offering EVs by 2035.

"GM is rapidly changing to conscionable the world's request for cleaner and safer proscription and they're uncovering caller maturation opportunities with each hardware and bundle innovation they're introducing," McNeill said.

GM's board, which has been praised for its sex neutrality successful caller years, present has 13 directors, six of whom are female. Twelve of the directors are independent.