Claire Hughes Johnson, Stripe Executive, Joins Aurora’s Board of Directors
January 18 2022 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
The self-driving company Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR) today announced
the appointment of Claire Hughes Johnson to Aurora’s Board of
Directors. Johnson brings more than 15 years of experience in
evolving businesses for scale and delivering enterprise-ready
products at leading companies including Stripe and Google.
“Claire knows how to build businesses that scale and lead
companies looking to challenge the status quo. Her independent and
progress-focused mindset will be invaluable as we advance our
operations, expand our work with partners and customers, and
commercialize the Aurora Driver,” said Aurora CEO and co-founder
Chris Urmson.
Johnson currently serves as a corporate officer and advisor for
the global financial technology company Stripe, where she has spent
the last 7 years on the executive team. Johnson served as Chief
Operating Officer at Stripe from 2014 to 2021, where she helped
Stripe grow from under 200 employees to more than 6,000 and from
10’s of millions in revenue to billions. At various times, she led
business operations, sales, marketing, customer support, risk and
all of the people functions, including workplace and real estate.
Johnson also currently serves on the Board of the renewable energy
company Ameresco, and the multi-platform publication, The Atlantic.
Prior to joining Stripe, Johnson spent ten years at Google, leading
various business teams including the launch and operations of Gmail
and Google Apps. She was also the Vice President responsible for
Adwords mid-market revenue globally; Google Offers sales, product,
and engineering; and the business, operations, and product teams of
their self-driving car project. Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree
with honors from Brown University and an MBA from the Yale School
of Management. She has previously served on the board of Hallmark
Cards, Inc. and is also a trustee and Executive Committee member of
Milton Academy.
Aurora’s Board of Directors also consists of Aurora co-founders
Chris Urmson and Sterling Anderson, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi,
Greylock partner and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Sequoia
Capital’s Carl Eschenbach, Index Ventures’s Mike Volpi, and Sonos
CFO Brittany Bagley.
About Aurora
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving
technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Founded in 2017 by experts
in the self-driving industry, Aurora is revolutionizing
transportation – making it safer, increasingly accessible, and more
reliable and efficient than ever before. Its flagship product, the
Aurora Driver, is a platform that brings together software,
hardware, and data services, to autonomously operate passenger
vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora
is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation
ecosystem including Toyota, Uber, Uber Freight, Volvo, FedEx, and
PACCAR. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and
Texas and has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT;
Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit
www.aurora.tech.
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