The $20 billion self-driving startup Cruise is adding to its leadership team even as autonomous-vehicle companies are hitting the brakes during the pandemic (GM)

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• Cruise is adding to its leaderships ranks with Regina Dugan, a veteran of DARPA, Google, and Facebook.
• Dugan will join the board and be Cruise's first independent director.
• Her role will be to encourage moonshots for the autonomous ride-hailing startup, acquired by General Motors in 2016 for $1 billion and now valued at nearly $20 billion.
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On Tuesday, the autonomous ride-hailing startup Cruise announced that Regina E. Dugan had joined its board as its first independent director.

In April, Cruise hired prominent California lawyer Jeff Bleich, a former US Ambassador to Australia, as its chief legal officer.

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