Uber Freight chief executive officer Lior Ron is leaving the $5 billion-a-year digital freight marketplace he founded to become chief operating officer at Waabi, a Toronto-based developer of self-driving truck technology. Ron will remain chairman of Uber Freight while he oversees Waabi’s push from research into commercial deployment. At Waabi, Ron will steer go-to-market strategy and expand partnerships as the company prepares to run fully driverless trucks on Texas highways before the end of 2025. Founder and chief executive Raquel Urtasun said Ron’s experience scaling Uber Freight positions the venture to accelerate adoption of autonomous freight services. Uber Freight named former Tesla executive Rebecca Tinucci as its new CEO and said its existing partnership with Waabi to place autonomous capacity on the Uber Freight network will continue. Waabi has raised about $288 million, including a $200 million Series B round last year, and collaborates with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to build driver-out trucks.