A third high-profile tech leader is leaving GM as part of a software-product restructuring

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DETROIT – A third high-profile technology executive is leaving General Motors

amid a restructuring of the automaker’s software and product businesses, CNBC has learned.

Baris Cetinok, GM senior vice president of software and services product management, will depart the company effective Dec. 12, the automaker confirmed Tuesday after an internal announcement to employees.

Cetinok is the third tech-turned-auto executive to leave GM in roughly a month as the company combines its vehicle software engineering and global product units under one organization, led by new Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson.

A third high-profile tech leader is leaving GM as part of a software-product restructuring

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