Google Hires Airbnb Executive Shaun Stewart as Director of Self-Driving

Alphabet’s Google self-driving vehicle project took a step better to market with the hire of a top executive from Airbnb, the online villa rental market.

Shaun Stewart is signing up with Google as a director of the self-driving automobile task, spokesperson Johnny Luu stated on Friday.

Stewart’s role will be to assist advertise Google’s self-driving technology, which has been in advancement for over 7 years and has actually seen an increased pace of activity during the last 12 months.

Stewart’s employing follows the departure previously this month of Chris Urmson, primary technical officer of the task. Urmson was the task’s team leader and primary public spokesman up until ex-Hyundai executive John Krafcik was employed by Google as the project’s CEO, last year.

Urmson in 2015 predicted that Google’s self-driving technology would be all set for production by 2020, and stated Google was actively looking for partners among global car manufacturers.

Stewart is a knowledgeable technology executive specializing in structure and scaling companies. He joins Google from Airbnb where he set up the company’s vacation services business. Prior to that, he was president of Jetsetter, a company that was obtained by TripAdvisor.