Cepton, Inc. announced the addition of Luis Gonçalves to its Detroit team as Director of Customer Programs. In his new role at Cepton, Gonçalves will lead the Company's Detroit automotive customer programs, enabling volume production ramp through Cepton' s ADAS lidar program with lead OEM customer as well as future production awards from other automotive customers. He will oversee onsite support to ensure technical success, facilitate engineering change requests and implementation and drive cross-department collaboration to meet project execution goals. Gonçalves has 14 years of engineering experience in the automotive industry.

Before joining Cepton, he spent 9 years at General Motors working as a Senior Lidar Development Engineer, Lidar Performance Engineer for Ultra Cruise, and most recently Engineering Leader of User Experience and Connectivity within GM's Autonomous Vehicle Technology Program. Prior to GM, Gonçalves was a Quality Engineering Coordinator at Honda North America. Gonçalves has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and a M.S. in Automotive Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Michigan.