Gloria Boyland Joins Aurora’s Board of Directors
March 15 2023 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Boyland’s extensive logistics expertise set to
help company as it prepares for commercial launch in 2024
Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR), a leading autonomous
vehicle company, today announced it has appointed Gloria Boyland to
its board of directors. Boyland has served as an advisor to the
company for the last two years, and brings extensive industry
experience and logistics expertise gained over more than 20 plus
years as a senior executive at Fortune 50 companies. Boyland’s
experience and insights are set to play a key role as the company
scales operations, increases deliveries, and works closely with its
shipping partners to integrate its autonomous trucking product into
daily shipping operations.
Boyland most recently served as the corporate vice president,
operations service support and advanced technology at FedEx for
almost five years. As part of her role, Boyland led teams
responsible for identifying and evaluating emerging technologies,
as well as led the governance and implementation of those
technologies. In her more than 15 years at FedEx, Boyland held
other roles as well, including serving as vice president of service
experience and quality, where she focused on enterprise-wide
improvement initiatives and strategic changes to improve customer
experiences. Prior to FedEx, she held a variety of positions which
included customer experience management, business development, and
acquisition integration. Boyland also currently serves on the
boards of United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) and Vontier.
“Aurora’s technology has the potential to make the supply chain
more efficient, faster, and more flexible, creating a huge shift in
our ability to ensure people have what they need when they need
it,” said Boyland. “I continue to be impressed by the character of
Aurora’s leadership and the way the company is developing products
and building their business. I look forward to expanding my role
with the company and supporting their vision as Aurora transforms
the future of transportation.”
“We first met Gloria through our work with FedEx and the value
of her insights, technical understanding, and unique perspective
were immediately apparent,” said Chris Urmson, Cofounder and CEO of
Aurora. “We are incredibly fortunate to have Gloria joining our
board, and I look forward to working with her as we work together
to mature our commercial trucking product.”
About Aurora
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving
technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation
safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient
than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system
designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling
semi-trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins
Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products
for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry
leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota,
FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress,
Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news,
visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.
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