Board of Directors

Mr. Urmson is a co-founder of Aurora and has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director on the board at Aurora since its formation in 2017. Prior to founding Aurora, Mr. Urmson helped build Google's self-driving program from 2009 to 2016 and served as Chief Technology Officer of the group. Mr. Urmson has decades of experience leading automated vehicle programs. He was the Director of Technology for Carnegie Mellon's DARPA Grand and Urban Challenge Teams, which placed second and third in 2005, and first in 2007. Mr. Urmson earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and his BEng in Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba. Mr. Urmson currently serves on Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science Dean's Advisory Board. Mr. Urmson also currently serves on the board of directors for Edge Case Research, a company working to assure the safety of autonomous systems for real world deployment. Mr. Urmson has authored over 50 publications and is a prolific inventor.

Mr. Anderson is a co-founder of Aurora and has served as Chief Product Officer since its formation in 2017 and a director on the board since January 2018. Mr. Anderson has spent over 18 years leading advanced vehicle programs. Prior to founding Aurora, Mr. Anderson led the design, development, and launch of the award-winning Tesla Model X, and led the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot. In the late 2000s, he developed MIT's Intelligent Co-Pilot, a shared autonomy framework that paved the way for broad advances in cooperative control of human-machine systems. Mr. Anderson holds multiple patents and over a dozen publications in autonomous vehicle systems, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT.

Ms. Bagley is a seasoned business and finance leader with experience both as an operator and in the boardroom. She currently serves as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Axon and was previously its Chief Business and Financial Officer since 2022. Prior to Axon, she served for 3.5 years as Chief Financial Officer at Sonos, and served on their board of directors from 2017 to 2019 where she chaired the compensation committee. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Bagley served as a Managing Director at KKR and previously served in other roles at KKR from 2007 to 2017. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Bagley was an analyst at The Goldman Sachs Group. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Brown University.

Mr. Bhatt has served as a Senior Vice President and the Chief Operating Officer for AtkinsRéalis, an engineering, procurement, and construction services company, in the United States and Latin America since September 2024. Mr. Bhatt also served as the Administrator for the Federal Highway Administration, a division of the United States Department of Transportation, from January 2023 to September 2024. Prior to Federal Highway Administration, Mr. Bhatt served as the Senior Vice President of AECOM, an infrastructure consulting firm, from August 2021 to December 2022, and the President and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America from December 2017 to July 2021. Mr. Bhatt has also served in leadership positions with the Colorado Department of Transportation, the Delaware Department of Transportation and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Mr. Bhatt holds a B.A. in Economics from Western Kentucky University. Mr. Bhatt has previously served on Aurora’s Safety Advisory Board.

Ms. Boyland is a retired senior executive of FedEx Corporation (“FedEx”), where she served in various leadership positions between 2004 to 2020, including as Corporate Vice President, Operations & Service Support and Vice President, Service Experience Leadership beginning in 2016. While at FedEx, Ms. Boyland led operations research and operational initiatives in electro mobility, network and fleet automation, customer experience improvements and advancing new service offerings. Prior to her tenure at FedEx, Ms. Boyland held various leadership positions at General Electric Company from 1992 to 2004, including as General Manager, Fleet Management Services - GE Fleet and Six Sigma Enterprise Quality Leader, GE Auto Finance Services. Earlier in her career, Ms. Boyland served as legal counsel for AXA Financial from 1986 to 1992. Ms. Boyland currently serves on the boards of directors of Vontier Corporation and United Natural Foods, Inc., and previously served as a member of the boards of Chesapeake Energy Corporation and UMRF Ventures, Inc. In 2016, Ms. Boyland was appointed to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation. Ms. Boyland also served as a strategic advisor to Aurora from 2020 to 2021. Ms. Boyland holds a B.A. in Psychology and Business from Eckerd College, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Mr. Donahoe served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nike, Inc. from January 2020 to October 2024. Prior to joining Nike, Mr. Donahoe served as Chief Executive Officer of ServiceNow, an IT service management and workflow automation company, from 2017 to 2019, as Chief Executive Officer of eBay, a global e-commerce company, from 2008 to 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer and Worldwide Managing Director of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, from 1999 to 2005. Mr. Donahoe previously served on the board of directors of Nike from June 2014 until October 2024, PayPal Holdings, Inc. from July 2015 to July 2024, ServiceNow from April 2017 to June 2020 and Intel Corporation from March 2009 to May 2017. Mr. Donahoe holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Hoffman is an accomplished entrepreneur, executive and investor, and has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. He co-founded LinkedIn, served as its founding Chief Executive Officer, and served as its Executive Chairman until the company's acquisition by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. In 2009, Mr. Hoffman joined Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm, where he focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. In 2022, he co-founded Inflection AI, an artificial intelligence company. He also serves on the board of directors of Entrepreneur First, Microsoft Corporation, Nauto, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. He also previously served on the board of directors of Joby Aviation. Additionally, Mr. Hoffman serves on multiple not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZ Biohub, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity @ Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He also hosts two award-winning podcasts - Masters of Scale and Possible. He is the co-author of five best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Masters of Scale and Impromptu. Mr. Hoffman holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and a master’s degree in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Ms. Hughes Johnson currently serves as a corporate officer and advisor for the global financial technology company Stripe. Ms. Hughes 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 tens 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. Prior to joining Stripe, Ms. 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. Ms. Hughes Johnson holds a B.A. in English and American Literature 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 President of the K-12 independent school Milton Academy and a member of the Brown University Corporation. Ms. Hughes Johnson also currently serves on the board of directors of the customer relationship management platform HubSpot, the renewable energy company Ameresco and the multi-platform publication The Atlantic.

Mr. Volpi has served as Partner at Index Ventures since 2009 and as the General Partner at Hanabi Capital since 2025. Mr. Volpi joined Index and helped establish the firm's San Francisco office. He invests primarily in software infrastructure and artificial intelligence companies. Mr. Volpi is currently serving on the boards of Cockroach Labs, Cohere, Confluent, Hebbia, Kong, Ferrari, and Wealthfront, among others. Mr. Volpi held several executive positions prior to Index and Hanabi Capital, including Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/GM of Cisco's routing business. While at Cisco, he managed a P&L in excess of $10 billion in revenues, and his team was responsible for the acquisition of over 70 companies, some of which were multi-billion deals. Mr. Volpi has a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also currently serves on the board of directors of Stanford Health Care and previously served on the board of directors of Elastic, Zuora and Stellantis (f/k/a Fiat Chrysler Automobile).