Autonomous Vehicle Startup Zoox Picks Intel Executive as New CEO

She begins at Zoox on Feb. 26. Her hiring makes Ms. Evans, born in Senegal and raised in Paris, one of the most high-profile black women running a Silicon Valley tech company. She succeeds Tim Kentley-Klay, the co-founder who was removed as CEO by Zoox's board last August after the company had completed a $500 million round that valued the company at $3.2 billion. At the time of his ouster, Mr. Kentley-Klay said in a statement that the board abruptly fired him and "chose a path of fear, optimizing for a little money in hand at the expense of profound progress for the universe." Mr. Kentley-Klay, an Australian designer, co-founded the company in 2014 with Jesse Levinson, who had made a name for himself in self-driving car development at Stanford University.