Uber delivery chief Gore-Coty is leaving after almost 13 years at ride-hailing company

Uber said Monday that Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, one of the company's longest-tenured top executives and the head of is delivery business is leaving after almost 13 years. Gore-Coty joined Uber as a general manager in France in 2012, and worked his way up to become vice president of mobility for the Europe and Middle East region four years later, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was named senior vice president of delivery in 2021. "It's hard to imagine Uber without Pierre, because there hasn't been much Uber without Pierre," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement that was part of a regulatory filing. "As one of our first employees, he was a driving force behind our global Mobility expansion and stepped up to run Uber Eats just weeks before the first Covid lockdowns." The company didn't say what Gore-Coty plans to do next. Uber also said that Andrew Macdonald, the company's senior vice president of mobility and business operations, will become chief operating officer, reporti ... Read full article.