Plus.ai is adding Dennis “Denny” Mooney to its advisory board. According to the company, Mooney will leverage his expertise in global product development for automotive and truck manufacturers to work with the Plus.ai team and bring to market the industry’s first autonomous trucks.
“We are very pleased to welcome Denny to our advisory board and look forward to his counsel across our engineering, product, and commercialization plans,” said Shawn Kerrigan, COO and co-founder of Plus.ai. “Denny has helped develop some of the highest quality trucks on the market, and his deep understanding of the trucking market and the engineering requirements needed to make the best-in-class vehicles is invaluable to us.”
Mooney has more than 40 years of experience in the automotive industry and held executive roles across operations and product development. He is the former senior vice president of global product development and before that was vice president of global engineering at Navistar International Corporation.
Prior to that, he worked at General Motors (GM) for 31 years. During his tenure there, his positions included executive director for vehicle performance at GM Engineering, serving as chairman and managing director of GM Holden in Australia, and leading global vehicles systems and integration as vice president before retiring from GM.
“Plus.ai’s self-driving truck technology can be a real game-changer for the trucking industry to address long-standing issues of safety, driver comfort, and fuel efficiency, which would benefit both drivers and fleets,” said Mooney. “I am thrilled to support the team to launch the first autonomous trucks to market.”
