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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Transportation space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dhruvil Sanghvi
Chief Executive Officer of LogiNext
Dhruvil is one of the co-founders LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte,Ernst & Young and Tata Group and studies at Carnegie Mellon and Nirma University.
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About LogiNext: Enterprise SaaS for Home Delivery and Transportation Businesses to Automate End to End Operational Process
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Josh Giegel
CEO & Co-Founder of Virgin Hyperloop
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About Virgin Hyperloop: Virgin Hyperloop is a developer of a transportation technology used to deliver fast, direct, and sustainable transportation at scale.
Brad Bao
Co-founder & CEO of Lime
Brad Bao is a Co-Founder and CEO at Lime (formerly LimeBike), the largest and leading micromobility company. He also currently serves as the Managing Director of Kinzon Capital (Fosun Group), a cross-border fund that investing in early-stage technology companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet-related investments. Believing in the synergy between the two largest market and innovation of US and China, Kinzon Capital is positioned to bridge the gap and bring them together. Investments include: Volta Discord Doc.ai AirMart Alcove Cabana Circle (smart gym) ePal Firefly Flex (Female product) Founders Suite Zero & (Zero And, previous EnjoyFuji.com) Gotit Kiwi Drop Lyte (powerbank sharing) Made Renovation On Deck Shackle Spout Clinic TellUs (real-estate investing & saving) Velo Bikes (adam’s startup) Visdom (financial planning saas) WorkStream Prior to joining Kinzon Capital, Brad served as the General Manager of Tencent America, and VP of BD of Tencent Games for over 8 years, during that time Brad built the Tencent US branch from scratch, and was responsible for the overall P&L including investments, strategy, globalization, BD, and overall operation. He led and participated in investments including Hi-Rez, Fireforge, Zam, and more, and served as board member of several. Brad obtained bachelor degree in International Marketing from Wuhan University, and received his MBA from Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Wayne Ting
Chief Executive Officer of Lime
Wayne Ting is Lime’s Chief Executive Officer. Wayne joined Lime in October 2018 as Global Head of Operations and Strategy and has been instrumental in the company’s drive towards operational excellence and path to profitability. Before joining Lime, Wayne spent more than four years at Uber, serving in various roles including Chief of Staff to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and General Manager of Uber’s Northern California business. Wayne previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor on the White House’s National Economic Council under President Obama where he focused on housing finance reform. Prior to the White House, Wayne worked at Bain Capital and at McKinsey & Company. Before that, he co-founded CampusNetwork.com, the first college-based social networking site (started close to 6 months before Facebook). Wayne is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Business School.
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About Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Toby Sun
Co-Founder and CEO of Lime
Toby Sun is the CEO and Co-founder of Lime, the leading global micromobility company that has revolutionized the first and last-mile transportation challenge. Lime has raised $777 million and is backed by world-leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, GGV, IDG, DCM, Franklin Templeton, Section 32, AME Cloud Ventures, Stanford Start-X, Kevin Durant, etc. Prior to Lime (formerly LimeBike), Toby was an investment director at Fosun Kinzon Capital, a $400M US-China cross-border venture fund backed by Fosun Group, focusing on early and growth-stage investment in consumer internet and IoT space. Toby invested in Tapingo, Grubmarket, Usens, Ding’Ding Smart Lock, and was involved in the board duties. Prior to Fosun, Toby was a Product and Marketing Manager at PepsiCo and managed a large US-China cross-border team, where he launched Gatorade in China and managed 7UP ($300M annual sales). Toby also worked as a management consultant at Monitor Group and Deloitte Consulting’s San Francisco office. Toby holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, and is a frequent guest speaker.
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About Lime, Lime: Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Arsen Tomsky
CEO & Founder of inDriver
Arsen Tomsky is the founder and CEO of inDriver. He leads the company’s global team of more than 1500 employees and over 100 million-user inDriver ecosystem in 34 countries around the world. Arsen founded inDriver in 2013 and developed the business into the world’s fastest growing ride-hailing services. Arsen grew up in Yakutsk, Russia, and received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Yakutsk State University. He is a passionate runner and finisher of the Chicago and Tokyo Marathons.
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About inDriver: inDriver is the world’s fastest-growing ride-hailing service.
Jiajun Zhu
Co-Founder and CEO of Nuro
Jiajun Zhu is a co-founder of Nuro. he used to be the principal software engineer of Google. He eraned his master’s degree ta University of Virginia and his bachelor’s degree at Fudan University.
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About Nuro: Nuro develops and operates a fleet of electric self-driving vehicles that are built to deliver assorted local goods.
Hannan Parvizian
Co-Founder & CEO of Volansi
Hannan Parvizian is Founder at Volans-i.
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About Volansi: Volansi is a developer of logistics solutions through autonomous drone deliveries that facilitate long range, time-critical shipments.
James Wu
Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMap
James Wu is the Co-Founder and CEO of DeepMap Inc. He is a former Principal Architect at Baidu, Inc and Principal Engineer at Upthere. Mr. Wu graduated from Tianjin University with a bachelor of science in Computer Science and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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About DeepMap: DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world’s best autonomous mapping and localization solutions.
Vignan Velivela
Co-Founder & CEO of AtoB
Vignan Velivela is the Co-Founder & CEO at AtoB.
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About AtoB: AtoB is a technology company building payments infrastructure for the transportation industry.
Emily Kirsch
Founder, Managing Partner & CEO of Powerhouse Ventures
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About Powerhouse, Powerhouse Ventures: Powerhouse Ventures backs seed-stage startups building innovative software to rapidly decarbonize our global energy and mobility systems.
John Krafcik
CEO of Waymo
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About Waymo: Waymo improves transportation by developing self-driving technology developed in Google’s labs.
Aarjav Trivedi
CEO and Co-Founder of Ridecell
Aarjav is the founder and CEO of RideCell. Before RideCell, Aarjav worked in engineering at SpiDynamics (Acquired by HP) and as a research engineer at CipherTrust and Secure Computing (Acquired by McAfee) where he helped invent and ship security systems used by over 40% of the Fortune 500 as well as the Pentagon. Aarjav has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a Bachelors in in Computer Science from University of Mumbai.
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About Ridecell: Ridecell provides car-sharing, ride-sharing, short-term leases, and autonomous vehicle fleet services for car rental companies.
Aaron Peck
CEO of Mothership
Co-founder / CEO at Mothership – fmr. Co-founder / Head of Product @Skurt (acquired), before that Y Combinator backed @beatdeck
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About Mothership: We’re building the future of freight to deliver what the world needs faster
Justin Ho
Co-founder & CEO of RideOS
Justin Ho is the CEO and co-founder of rideOS, a next generation platform, marketplace, and mapping service that can be utilized by ride hailing companies, OEMs, and governments to operate fleets of on-demand self-driving vehicle services.
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About RideOS: RideOS offers marketplaces/mapping services for ride-hailing fleets
Alex Alpert
Founder & CEO of Shyft
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About NFX, Shyft: Shyft transforms the moving and relocation industry by introducing technology, customer service, and lead management solutions.
Ritu Narayan
Founder and CEO of Zum
Ritu Narayan is the founder and CEO of ZUM. She also founded TechX and served as the group product manager at eBay. Ritu holds a master’s degree in management from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology.
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About Zum: Zūm provides child transportation for school districts and busy families.
Jin Stedge
Co-founder & CEO of TrueNorth
Jin Stedge is a Co-founder & CEO at TrueNorth.
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About TrueNorth: TrueNorth offers software that helps truckers manage insurance, fuel, and maintenance.
Sultan Ahmed Sulayem
Group Chairman and CEO of DP World Group
His Excellency Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem became Chairman of DP World on 30 May 2007. He is a leading UAE and international businessman whose visionary leadership spearheaded the rapid expansion of Dubai’s infrastructure, including ports and free zones, contributing significantly to the stellar growth trajectory of the United Arab Emirates. Mr Bin Sulayem was previously Chairman of Dubai World and in this role oversaw businesses in industries as diverse as real estate development, hospitality, tourism, retail, e-commerce, commodities, transportation and logistics. He previously served as Chairman of Port & Free Zone World FZE and remains one of the two representatives of DP World’s majority shareholder on the Board. Highlights of his career, spanning three decades, comprise DP World’s international expansion, including the $6.85 billion acquisition of P&O Group to become a leading global marine terminals operator, establishing and leading Nakheel, a real estate and tourism property development firm that created many iconic Dubai projects including The Palm, the world’s largest man-made islands; establishing and leading Istithmar World, a major global private equity investment house; and pioneering the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre. Mr. Bin Sulayem holds a BS in Economics from Temple University, United States. A citizen of the United Arab Emirates, he is 59 years old.
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About DP World Group: DP World is an enabler of global trade and a leader in marine terminal operations and development, logistics, and related services.
Janelle Wang
Co-founder & CEO of ACTON
Janelle Wang joined ACTON as CEO & Cofounder in 2013.
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About ACTON: ACTON creates micro mobility package that amplify the power of the human body, reduce traffic, and manages urban fleets efficiently.
Joanna McFarland
Co-Founder & CEO of HopSkipDrive
Joanna has more than 15 years experience in product and general management. She has a MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Joanna drives her two boys, Jackson (7) and Sam (4), to school, karate, T-ball and cub scouts.
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About HopSkipDrive, XFactor Ventures: HopSkipDrive is a vehicle for hire company focused on shuttling kids to school.
Matt Cox
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon AI
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About Beacon AI: Beacon AI focuses on applying deep aviation and AI on public, commerical, and private fleets.
Derrick Ko
CEO & Co-founder of Spin
Derrick Ko is co-founder at Skinny Labs, also known as Spin. Prior to this, he was a product manager at Lyft and the first employee at Kicksend.
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About Spin: Spin is a stationless electric scooter company that provides dockless mobility systems.
Jordan Brown
Founder, CEO of Lugg
Jordan Brown is the Founder, CEO at Lugg
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About Lugg: Lugg provides anything moved with the push of a button. Download Lugg on the App store and instantly get connected to a truck and 2 movers.
Jianxiong Xiao
Founder and CEO of AutoX
Jianxiong Xiao (a.k.a., Professor X) is the Founder and CEO of AutoX Inc., a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles. AutoX’s mission is to democratize autonomy and enable autonomous driving to improve everyone’s life. Dr. Xiao has over ten years of research and engineering experience in Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, and Robotics. In particular, he is a pioneer in the fields of 3D Deep Learning, RGB-D Recognition and Mapping, Big Data, Large-scale Crowdsourcing, and Deep Learning for Robotics. Jianxiong received a BEng. and MPhil. in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. And he was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and the founding director of the Princeton Computer Vision and Robotics Labs from 2013 to 2016. His work has received the Best Student Paper Award at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2012 and the Google Research Best Papers Award for 2012, and has appeared in the popular press. He was awarded the Google U.S./Canada Fellowship in Computer Vision in 2012, the MIT CSW Best Research Award in 2011, NSF/Intel VEC Research Award in 2016, and two Google Faculty Awards in 2014 and in 2015 respectively. He co-lead the MIT+Princeton joint team to participate in the Amazon Picking Challenge in 2016, and won the 3rd and 4th place worldwide. He was named to be one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2017, and one of the 12 of the most promising entrepreneurs to keep an eye on in 2018 by Next Visionaries.
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About AutoX: AutoX is a self-driving car startup that offers AI drivers to enable universal access to transportation for the people.
Guy Kaplinsky
CEO/Cofounder of ASKA dba NFT Inc.
Guy Kaplinsky is a successful serial entrepreneur, with in-depth knowledge and expertise in technology-related projects and international business. He is the Chairman and Cofounder of NFT, Inc., a growth stage Silicon Valley startup that bridges aviation and automotive and focused on future mobility transportation solutions. The ASKA™ is first viable Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing vehicle (eVTOL) with drive and fly capabilities, providing door to door transport for daily commuters and designed with a reasonable cost factor. Guy began his career at Nissho Iwai Corporation as an executive at their Tel-Aviv Liaison Office. After NIC ceased operations in Israel in 2001, Guy established his first startup with Maki Kaplinsky, a dynamic Japanese female entrepreneur. This global company facilitated multi-million dollar government-related projects in over 15 countries. The second start-up, IQP Corporation, was an early innovator in the Internet of Things and concluded as a multi-million dollar M&A deal with GE Digital in 2017.
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About ASKA dba NFT Inc.: Developer of the ASKA™ eVTOL drive and fly vehicle
Ivan Tsybaev
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Trucker Path
Ivan Tsybaev is CEO & Founder at Trucker Path and Co-Founder & CEO of JobEasy.
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About Careerist, Trucker Path: Trucker Path provides a software platform designed for the trucking industry.
Edward Kearney
Co-Founder and CEO of Boundary Layer Technologies
Edward Kearney is the co-founder and CEO of Boundary Layer Technologies. He is also an advisor at Snappr Inc. Edward is a former COO and co-founder at GownTown Pty Ltd.
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About Boundary Layer Technologies: Boundary Layer Technologies is a startup that builds high-speed container ships using hydrofoil technology.
JoeBen Bevirt
Founder & CEO of Joby Aviation
JoeBen Bevirt is an inveterate entrepreneur born with a passion for engineering that has driven the formation of four successful companies over the past 10 years. JoeBen founded Joby, Inc. in 2005 to develop, market, and sell useful, unique, and delightful consumer products. Profitable almost immediately, Joby continues to deliver new products and record profits.
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About Intel Capital, Joby Aviation: Joby Aviation is an aerospace transportation company developing electric aircrafts.
Chris Urmson
Co-Founder and CEO of Aurora
Chris Urmson is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Aurora, where he leads a world-class team in bringing self-driving technology to the transportation industry quickly, broadly, and safely. Over the last 15 years Chris has worked to advance self-driving technology and bring it to market. Chris helped found the self-driving car team at Alphabet and led the team for seven years. Prior, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and was the technical director for the winning team of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Chris has a Ph.D in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Aurora: Aurora is a self-driving vehicle company providing a platform that brings software and data services to operate passenger vehicles.
Alex Rodrigues
CEO & Co-Founder of Embark Trucks
Embark is working to make the self-driving future a reality. While most of the spectacle has been around passenger vehicles, Embark is working to revolutionize $700 billion commercial trucking industry, the backbone of our economy. Commercial transport stands to reap untold benefits by deploying automated trucks – particularly during the “long haul” stretches. Alex studied Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
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About Embark Trucks: Embark develops self-driving truck technology designed for freight and logistic services.
Lior Tal
Chief Executive Officer of CYNGN
Lior has over nine years of experience leading business development efforts for early stage startups as well as legal experience in intellectual property and commercial law. Before joining Moblica, Lior co-founded and acted as managing partner at Barzam, Tal, Lerer Attorneys at law & Patent attorneys. Prior to that, Lior filled business development positions in software start-ups, including Odigo, DiskSites and Actimize. Lior holds LL.B. and B.A. degrees in Law and Business, a Master degree in Commercial Law, and is an active member of the Israel Bar Association.
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About CYNGN: Cyngn brings autonomous vehicle solutions to industrial organizations and use cases.
Eric Allen
CEO & President of LISNR
Eric Allen President former CTO (Japanese conglomerate), CEO (2 Exits);former Gracenote GM running $250M business unit in audio fingerprinting.
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About LISNR, LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Sanjay Dastoor
Co-founder & CEO of Skip Scooters
Sanjay Dastoor is the Co-founder and CEO of Skip.
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About Skip Scooters: Skip Scooters operates shared electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation.
Sam Zaid
Founder & CEO of Getaround
Sam is Founder & CEO at Getaround.
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About Arconex, Getaround: Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars.
Vic Shao
Founder and CEO of Amply Power
Vic is Chief Executive Officer of Green Charge Networks. Vic is the visionary and driving force behind the company’s overall direction and product strategy. He leads the development of its core technology and system infrastructure. Since 2009, Vic has been collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy and Fortune 500 companies on a ROI-driven energy storage appliance for the private sector, complementary to solar PV. With more than 15 years experience in software development and complex system implementation, Vic is passionate in applying software to improve power efficiency. He started his high tech career with Oracle Corporation, eventually leading engineering and product teams in Oracle’s middleware division. Prior to co-founding Green Charge Networks, Vic held engineering and management positions at several cloud computing software companies. He holds more than 12 published / granted patents in cloud computing and power efficiency. Vic holds a Master of Business Administration degree from UC Berkeley and an engineering degree from the University of Virginia, magna cum laude.
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About Amply Power, Music Intelligence Solutions: Amply Power provides commercial fleet operations a charging-as-a-service approach to help fleets transaction to electric vehicles.
Tobenna Arodiogbu
Co-founder & CEO of CloudTrucks
Tobenna Arodiogbu is Tobenna Arodiogbu at Scotty Labs. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO at CloudTrucks.
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About CloudTrucks, Scotty Labs: CloudTrucks offers a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers.
Stefan Seltz-Axmacher
Founder & CEO of Starsky Robotics
Stefan Seltz-Axmacher is CEO and Founder of Starsky Robotics, a driverless truck startup launched in August 2016, which aims to make roads safer and allow truck drivers to work closer to home. Starsky Robotics began moving freight on the highway in February 2017, and in February 2018 drove a truck fully unmanned for seven miles on the highway. Starsky raised a $16.5 million Series A round led by Shasta Ventures, with substantial contributions from previous investors like Y Combinator, Trucks.vc, 50 Years, 9Point Ventures, and many others. Prior to founding Starsky Robotics, Stefan worked with a number of Silicon Valley startups, partnering with innovators in logistics and engineering fields. He holds a degree in International Business from Drexel University.
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About Starsky Robotics: Starsky Robotics is a San Francisco-based autonomous trucking company.
Val Miftakhov
Founder & CEO of ZeroAvia
Val Miftakhov is a Founder & CEO of ZeroAvia, Inc, a California company developing the World’s first practical zero emission aviation powertrain. Val is a serial entrepreneur in EV space – his previous company eMotorWerks has developed the World’s leading platform for EV battery aggregation to provide grid services, and was acquired in 2017. Prior to that, Val held a number of senior business and product positions at Google and McKinsey & Company, and was a nuclear researcher at Stanford Linear Accelerator. Val holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University, Masters in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and was a two-time winner of Russian Nationwide Physics competitions. In his spare time, Val makes good use of his airplane and helicopter pilot licenses.
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About ZeroAvia: ZeroAvia produces practical zero emission aviation powertrain targeting 9-19-passenger airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel.
Jonathon Barkl
Co-founder & CEO of AirGarage
Jonathon Barkl currently serves AirGarage as the co-founder and CEO.
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About AirGarage: AirGarage is the 21st century parking operator. We handle everything it takes to run your parking asset.
Don Burnette
Co-Founder & CEO of Kodiak Robotics
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About Kodiak Robotics: Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous technology for long-haul trucking.
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Alfonso De los Rios
CEO & Co-Founder of Nowports
Alfonso De los Rios is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nowports.
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About Nowports: Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that automates the supply chain processes of Latin American companies.
Gaetano Crupi
Co-founder, CEO, and Board Member of Cabin
Gaetano Crupi is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Cabin Technologies.
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About Cabin, Prime Movers Lab: Cabin is the first hospitality transportation company on a mission to make the most of every waking and sleeping moment.
John Hayes
Founder & CEO of Ghost
John Hayes joined John Colgrove to co-found Pure Storage in 2009 after serving in Yahoo!’s Office of the Chief Technologist, where he investigated web architectures for collaborative development of highly-reliable systems. He joined Yahoo! via the acquisition of Bix, where he was a founding engineer. His work prior to Yahoo! focused on developing distributed platforms for real-time interpersonal interaction in a variety of areas including entertainment, medicine, psychology, and defense. During this time, he became interested in the underlying architecture of reliable distributed systems, particularly those built from unreliable components. His diverse experiences have led him to develop new approaches to make today’s increasingly complex distributed systems more reliable. John holds a degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Guelph University in Ontario, Canada.
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About Ghost: Ghost is developing the revolutionary technology that finally makes self-driving safe.
Charles Acknin
Co-Founder & CEO of Skyways
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About Skyways: Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization.
Peter Rawlinson
CTO and CEO of Lucid Motors
Peter Rawlinson is the Chief Technology Officer and VP of Lucid. He leads the outstanding team developing Lucid’s premium electric vehicle. Peter has over 30 years of vehicle engineering experience and is best known for developing the Tesla Model S. Formerly Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Tesla and Chief Engineer of the Model S, Peter led the engineering of the Model S from clean-sheet to production readiness while simultaneously building a world class engineering team. Peter conceived of and implemented an innovative product development methodology enabling this process to occur in just three years. As a hands-on engineer, he also holds a significant proportion of the Model S vehicle patents. Prior to Tesla, Peter was Head of Vehicle Engineering at Corus Automotive, Chief Engineer at Lotus Cars, and Principal Engineer at Jaguar Cars. In these roles, Peter developed key innovations for Alcoa, Aston Martin, BMW, Daimler, Ford, GM, Audi, Bentley, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lockheed Martin, and Prodrive. Peter holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London.
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About Lucid Motors: Lucid Motors is an automotive company that specializes in electric cars.
Bernard Tse
CEO of Lucid Motors
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About Lucid Motors: Lucid Motors is an automotive company that specializes in electric cars.
Steve Wen
Co-Founder & CEO of Dray Alliance
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About Dray Alliance: Dray Alliance is a trucking industry with a technology platform that makes deliveries to warehouses simple, predictable, and transparent.
Aicha Evans
CEO of Zoox
Aicha Evans, Chief Executive Officer at Zoox, is reimagining mobility in dense urban environments and redefining the customer experience through the creation of the first purpose-built, fully autonomous, electric vehicle. Prior to joining Zoox, Aicha served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation, driving the company’s strategy to transform from a PC-centric to a data-centric company. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from The George Washington University.
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About Intel, Zoox: Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility as-a-service and self-driving car services.
Dan Preston
CEO of Metromile
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About Metromile: Metromile is a car insurance company using data science and machine learning to offer drivers new and fairer insurance.
Chajianl Shivakumar
CEO and Co-Founder of Urban Engines
Shiva is the CEO and Co-Founder of Urban Engines. Prior to Urban Engines, from 2001 through 2010, Shiva was a Vice President and Distinguished Entrepreneur at Google, helping to build AdSense, Search Appliances, Cloud Apps, and research and development centers across the world. With a deep interest in open data, Shiva created Sitemaps.org to surface Web data with an industry-first collaboration between Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Shiva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Arthur Samuel Best Thesis Award.
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About Urban Engines: Urban Engines combines big data and spatial analytics to improve urban mobility.
Jigar Shah
Founder & CEO of Miles
Jigar Shah is the Founder & CEO of Miles. Formerly he was a Senior Product Manager & Technical Leader at Cisco with P&L responsibilities over $750M.
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About Miles: Miles is a startup that offers rewards for traveling, regardless of the mode of transportation.
Daniel Huang
Founder & CEO of Immotor
Daniel is the founder and CEO of Immotor. As a strategic visionary, Daniel has dedicated Immotor’s resources to the research and development of the world’s first intelligent electric personal transport powered by its own engineered “Super Battery”, a revolutionary green power management system. Previously, Daniel was the founder and CEO of mophie, where he led the company to become a pioneer in the market of intelligent smartphone accessories and to be recognized globally as a leader in the smartphone portable power market. The company’s products are sold in over 100 countries and more than 25,000 retail stores. Daniel is the inventor of the mophie juice pack, world’s first iPhone battery case that is now used by more than 15 million customers around the world. In 2012, mophie was ranked #20 on the Inc. 500’s list of America’s fastest growing company in the consumer products and services industry. Daniel was recognized as one of the top 15 East Asian Entrepreneurs in the U.S.. In 2013, Daniel was named the finalist of the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Prior to mophie, Daniel was CEO of GGEC America from 1996 -2006. GGEC is publicly listed on the China stock market and is one of Asia’s leading audio electronic products manufacturers. Daniel is well known and respected by his colleagues and business partners for being able to see the big picture, while nailing the details. Not only is he a strategic thinker, he is also an avid inventor with multiple patents in the field of mobile power, mobile intelligence and consumer products. Daniel holds a Master of Business Administration with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from University of Southern California and a Bachelor Degree in Electric Engineering from Xi’An JiaoTong University, China.
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About Immotor: Immotor develops and sells portable and personal transport systems.
Alek Vernitsky
Co-Founder & CEO of Portside
Alek Verntisky, co-founder and CEO of Portside, Inc., is a technology entrepreneur, business executive, and leader with more than ten years of experience in developing forward-thinking and innovative technology-enabled services for commercial and business aviation.
Before founding Portside, Inc he co-founded GetGoing, Inc., an industry-leading revenue, commission, and payments optimization platform for the global commercial aviation industry. GetGoing was acquired by BCD Travel, the second largest corporate agency in the world, in January 2016, after reaching annual sales of over $1B.
His passion for aviation, natural ability to innovate and develop new products combined with his genuine interest in helping aviation businesses achieve growth and profitability drove Alek to launch Portside in 2017. Since then, Portside has grown rapidly and transitioned into an integrated platform that seamlessly connects all participants in the global business aviation industry. It enables instant exchange of data, brings transparency to aircraft operations and offers robust analytics, optimization, billing, and reporting functionality. Today Portside serves over 200 customers, powering modern flight departments, charter operators, FBOs, and government fleet operators in over 30 countries.
Alek holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Legal Studies from the University of California in Berkeley. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two young boys.
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About Portside: Portside is developing a modern, cloud-based operating system for business and government aviation: a set of integrated solutions addressing major industry pain points. The Portside platform supports over 150 operators of business jets, helicopters, industrial and government fleets, as well as fractional jet ownership programs in over 30 countries. Portside is headquartered in San Francisco with team members across the US, Europe and Asia.
Alden Woodrow
Co-Founder & CEO of Ike
Co-Founder & CEO at Ike
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About Ike: Ike is a self driving truck startup, focused on building automation technology to help improve the trucking industry.
Joel Ifill
Founder & CEO of DASH Systems
Founder of DASH Systems. Specializing in precision aerial delivery and automated air cargo delivery systems.
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About DASH Systems: DASH Systems is a tech company developing hardware and software to enable precision airdrop deliveries.
Jeffrey O’Neill
Founder/CEO of Zephyr Aerospace
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About flyClever, Zephyr Aerospace: Zephyr Aerospace designs affordable lie-flat seating solutions for transportation companies.
Mihnea de Vries
Founder and CEO of Scooterson
Mihnea de Vries is entrepreneur and filmmaker, with 20+ years of experience in technology start-ups, marketing, and film. Back in 1996, Mihnea launched the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in his hometown. Later, he started filming and directing TV ads and music videos, also pioneering aerial cinematography with drones. His latest quest is to change the way of how we ride around the cities.
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About Scooterson: Intelligent electric vehicles of the future.
John Gabriel
CEO of Autzu
John Gabriel is the CEO at Autzu.
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About Autzu: Introducing drivesharing – the future of sustainable and efficient urban transport
Adam Compain
CEO of ClearMetal
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About ClearMetal: Leading Supply Chain & Logistics Solution Utilizing Continuous Delivery Experience (CDX)
Sebastian Thrun
CEO of Kitty Hawk
Sebastian Thrun is a scientist, educator, inventor, and entrepreneur. Sebastian is the CEO of Kitty Hawk, whose vision is to free people from traffic. He is also the founder, chairman, and president of Udacity, whose mission is to democratize education. Sebastian was the founder of X (previously Google X), where he led the development of the self-driving car, Google Glass, and other projects. He spent several years as a professor at Stanford University where he led the Stanford Racing Team, whose “Stanley” won the DARPA Grand Challenge. Stanley is now on display at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
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About Crossing Minds, Kitty Hawk, Stanford University, Udacity, Waymo: Kitty Hawk is an aerospace company that manufactures eVTOL vehicles that makes airtaxis affordable, ubiquitous, and eco-conscious.
Kirk Hawkins
Founder & CEO of ICON Aircraft
Kirk Hawkins is the Founder & CEO of ICON Aircraft.
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About ICON Aircraft: ICON Aircraft manufactures consumer-friendly, safe, technologically advanced aircrafts.
Jan Becker
CEO & Co-Founder of Apex.AI
Pioneering Automated Driving and Robotics leader who has been engineering innovations in autonomous/automated driving, robotics, artificial intelligence, and hardware/software design and development. History of working on robotics and automotive projects in the US & Europe. Practical technology manager who recognizes the value of user-centered design principles, iterative development, and ongoing testing to deliver useful products that people want. Significant research and development contributions in driver assistance, automated driving, vehicle safety systems, personal robotics, shared autonomy. Powerful global network of robotics, AI and automotive professionals, having worked on high-profile projects at Bosch and Stanford University. 20+ years of experience in vehicle automation 10+ years of experience in leading high performance technical teams 5+ years of experience in teaching at Stanford University 50+ patents in automated driving and driver assistance List of publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Becker3 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UBDpyhQAAAAJ
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About Apex.AI, Stanford University: Apex.AI is building an operating system for autonomous vehicles.
Jonny Simkin
CEO & Co-Founder of Swiftly
Jonny Simkin is the co-founder and CEO of Swiftly, a San Francisco-based technology company that has created an industry-leading big data platform to help public transit agencies improve their operational performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Living in San Francisco and having experienced the challenges of urban mobility first hand, Jonny is on a mission to reduce urban congestion and carbon emissions in cities across the world. Prior to founding Swiftly, Jonny was the Director of Product at Rafter Inc., where he helped nearly 3 million students save over $700 million on college textbooks. Before Rafter, Jonny was the co-founder and CEO of SwoopThat and HubEdu (acquired in 2012), where he built a leading online textbook comparison engine. Jonny holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with an Economics Concentration from Harvey Mudd College. In his spare time, he enjoys hockey, ping pong, tennis, and coffee.
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About Swiftly: Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Muhammad Huzaifa
Founder & CEO of ChargeWheel
Founder & CEO at ChargeWheel
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About ChargeWheel: ChargeWheel operates an on-demand charging solution for operators of electric vehicles and micromobility fleets in California.
Marco Filippi
CEO & Founder of Volvero
I’m a committed and energetic person, fascinated by new knowledges and stimulated by new challenges. My area of interests are: Startups, Blockchain & ICO, Sharing economy, Sport, Food & Wines. Text me if you want to talk about the last DLT development as well as the best restaurant you have been in!
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About Volvero: Volvero is an app based on the most innovative technologies for sharing vehicles.
Apoorv Bhargava
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of WeaveGrid
Apoorv Bhargava is the CEO and Co-founder of Weave Grid.
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About WeaveGrid: WeaveGrid develops electrification software for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles on the electric grid.
Rudd Davis
Founder & CEO of BlackBird
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About BlackBird, Swarm Mobile: BlackBird is on a mission to make flying as convenient and affordable as driivng
David Mayman
CEO of JetPack Aviation
David Mayman is the founder and CEO of JetPack Aviation.
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About JetPack Aviation: JetPack Aviation has created the world’s first true jetpack.
Chess Stetson
Founder and CEO of dRISK
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About dRISK: DRISK is an autonomous vehicle company that provides smoother and safer AVs solutions for the vehicle industry.
Charlene Consolacion
CEO & Co-Founder of Biig
Charlene Consolacion co-founded the World’s First Smart Lockbox for Cars: The BiigVault, transforming the automotive industry by introducing a secured and smart lockbox into vehicles, enabling a wide-array of on-demand automotive services such as in-car trunk delivery. Charlene is constantly innovating in the dynamic and high-tech sphere. This patented system is easy to install, allowing customers to use their smartphones to control, monitor a wide range of connected car capabilities, and access on-demand services.
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About Biig, Phrame: BiigVault: The Smart Lockbox for Cars
Afshin Behnia
CEO of Petrolicious
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About Petrolicious: Petrolicious is the destination for automotive enthusiasts to get a daily dose of high-quality content. Drive Tastefully.
Katherine DeWald
CEO and Co-Founder of Oncue
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About Oncue: Booking and software platform for moving companies
Khaled Naim
Co-Founder & CEO of Onfleet
Khaled is CEO and Co-Founder at Onfleet, the leading last-mile delivery management software platform. Khaled holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a BE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. Khaled is based in San Francisco, California.
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About Onfleet: Onfleet is a technology company that develops last-mile delivery management software.
Brandon Nixon
Chairman & CEO of Lytx
Brandon has led Lytx (formerly DriveCam, Inc.) since 2008, drawing upon an entrepreneurial background leading high-growth communications and technology businesses. Brandon joined the Company from ViaSat, where he was Senior Vice President responsible for the company’s commercial businesses. Prior to ViaSat, he was CEO of Enerdyne Technologies, Inc., when it was acquired by ViaSat. Prior to joining Enerdyne, he spent nearly two decades in a variety of executive roles at Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, PCSI/Cirrus Logic, SAIC, and private equity firm, Housatonic Partners, where he founded the firm’s communications practice. Brandon holds a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Lytx: Lytx, Inc. develops video-based driver safety and fleet management solutions.
Richard Wang
CEO/Co-Founder of Cuberg
CEO and Co-Founder at Cuberg
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About Cuberg: Cuberg is a company delivering lithium metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions.
Eric Wang
Co-founder and CEO of Wind Mobility
Co-founder and CEO at Wind Mobility.
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About Koogame, Wind Mobility: Wind Mobility is a micro-mobility company that offers convenient last mile transportation services.
Khaled Hassounah
CEO & Founder of Ample
A visionary technologist, Khaled has recruited and built technical teams across multiple early-stage startups and managed them through rapid growth to deliver successful and innovative products. Khaled has proven experience in building and deploying scalable software that has been used and continues to be used by tens of millions of enterprise and online users across multiple verticals. He has also set up and managed teams across India, China and the Middle East. Prior to MedHelp, he was a founding member of IMlogic, an instant messaging security software company acquired by Symantec, where he built the tech team and managed the delivery of three successful product offerings. Khaled was also the a founding member of One World Software Solutions, a technical consulting company that grew to span three continents, and was part of the NetDocs team at Microsoft. Khaled holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan.
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About Ample, MedHelp, NetDocs: Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation.
Taran Syali
Founder & CEO of Zaldee, Inc
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About Zaldee, Inc: Zaldee® is an online community marketplace which connects travelers and senders. Zaldee is Airbnb of the shipping industry
David Loury
CEO of Centauri
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About Centauri: Centauri is an aviation company that manufactures and produces a wide range of aircraft and supports Valkyrie aircraft.
Joseph Kwok
CEO of Seacube Container Leasing
Joseph Kwok joined the company in October 2006. He became Chief Executive Officer of SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd. in March 2010. Mr. Kwok is Chairman of Seacastle Inc. and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Seacastle Inc. from June 1, 2007 through March 2010. Prior to joining Seacastle Inc., Mr. Kwok was Group Advisor of AET (formerly known as American Eagle Tankers, Inc.) from April 2005 until March 2007 and Chief Executive Officer of AET from 1994 until March 2005, including following the sale of AET by Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. (‘‘NOL’’), a global transportation company and parent of the container carrier APL, to MISC Group. Previously, Mr. Kwok spent more than twenty years at NOL. While at NOL, in addition to serving as CEO of AET, from 1997 to 2003, Mr. Kwok served as Group Chief Operating Officer of NOL, and Chief Executive Officer of NOL’s Chartering and Enterprises Division and Chairman of Neptune Shipmanagement Services (Pte), Ltd., NOL’s ship operating arm. Mr. Kwok received a Naval Architecture degree from Hamburg Fachhochschule and a M.S. from MIT in Ocean Systems Management.
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About Seacube Container Leasing: SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd is one of the largest operating lessors of containers in the world.
Ezra Goldman
Co-Founder & CEO of Upshift
Ezra Goldman is founder & CEO of Upshift. He managed a software startup in Copenhagen for 2 years, spent 5 years as a human centered design strategist and has 22 years experience in shared transportation services since cofounding a bikeshare service in 1999. Ezra has never owned a car and has been a shared mobility pioneer: 1999-2003: Bikeshare 2006: Folding EV scootershare 2008: Carshare 2008: Rideshare 2009-10: P2P carshare 2011: Multi-modal trip planner app 2011-12: Emerging market carshare 2011-13: Fractional carshare 2014-: Autonomous carshare His background combines a depth of understanding on people’s needs, business strategy, environmental issues, urban systems, and the potential of technology. He combines these elements to drive market oriented, systemic change at the highest point of leverage possible. Specialties Entrepreneurship, user centered design, design strategy, urban planning and urban design, transportation planning, concept generation and innovation, mobile technology and social media.
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About Upshift: Fractional car memberships
Dirk Ahlborn
CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
Dirk Ahlborn is the CEO and co-founder of JumpStartFund, an online crowdsourcing platform for entrepreneurial projects. He is also the CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a project initiated by Elon Musk and incubated using JumpstartFund’s crowd collaboration process. Dirk Ahlborn started his career in 1993 as an investment specialist in Berlin, Germany. After moving to Italy in 1997, he founded several companies in the alternative energy and interior design space. In 2006, he successfully sold one of these companies to a global alternative energy conglomerate. Since 2009, he is a part of the Girvan Institute of Technology a non-profit business incubator for start-up tech companies. He co-founded and became CEO of Jumpstarter in 2013, the company that developed the crowdsourcing platform JumpStartFund.
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About Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, JumpStartFund: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is a global team that focuses on removing barriers of speed and congestion in travel.
Bibop Gabriele Gresta
CEO & Founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
Bibop Gabriele Gresta is on a mission to inspire you to change the world. He is a world-renowned speaker, featured at the World Economic Forum, The United Nations, TED Talks, and other global conferences. Gresta is a respeopcted activist in Transhumanism and Ethical Entrepreneurship, specializing in mass market community building and project design, and is currently focused on human mobility. Gresta partnered with Dirk Ahlborn, CEO and co-founder of Jump Starter, Inc. as COO and Chairman and co-founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. Now, as Chairman of HTT, he coordinates a team of 800+ professionals in 40 countries. HTT was the first to begin development of the Hyperloop™, and is the largest company ever built upon a collaborative business ecosystem. Gresta brings to HTT his knowledge as a developer, a venture capitalist, and inspirational business leader. He co-founded the influential startup incubator Digital Magics SPA, responsible for the start-up of more than 70 companies, in 2004 and served as its venture partner. He then pioneered the venture capital market in 2011 with two stock listed companies in U.K. and Germany with investment of more than 70 million pounds (net asset value of more than 100 million). At age 15, Gresta became Software Development Director for the multi-national Alpha Center International (Italy), leading a team that developed a disruptive super-learning system implemented in several nations. While still in his teens Gresta became a formidable producer, host and author of hit TV programs on Italian national television, founding the content production and distribution company Bibop, S.p.A. Within the company’s first two years it reached just under 4.25 million Euro in revenues. In 1999 he sold 40% of Bibop, S.p.A. to Telecom Italia for just under 6 million Euro, creating one of the first successful case histories of Italy’s new media.
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About Digital Magics, Digital Magics, Digital Magics, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Yottio: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is a global team that focuses on removing barriers of speed and congestion in travel.
Ray Chiu
Founder & CEO of Calyx
Founder of BioInspira.
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About Calyx: Calyx harnesses biology to provide low cost and highly accurate sensors for real-time detection and analysis of air chemicals.
Martin Hitch
Chief Executive Officer of Coros
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About Coros: Coros is a logistic firm that provides transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, global logistics, and supply chain services worldwide.
Donald Ratner
CEO of Last Mile Holdings
Don started his career as an investor, inventing and bringing to worldwide markets many famous toys, water guns, licensed products including the first Nintendo third party software brands like NFL football, NBA basketball, and many others, and creating new toy categories selling over a billion dollars of products. In 1985 his company was sold to MCA/Universal. He was executive VP for six years, and then started Natural Kids Foods, using his licensing knowledge to brand his juices with Ninja Turtles, Barbie, WWF, Nintendo, etc. NKF soon became a dominant kids beverage company, and was sold to Citrus World in Florida. Don then partnered with the Walt Disney company and got the exclusive rights to design, develop and sell the Disney branded fast moving consumer products for 10 years. He did the largest deals in Disney consumer products history. Don sold his designs for turn key categories to Coca Cola, Kellog’s, Mars and Wells Blue Bunny, totaling several billion dollars of retail sales.
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About Last Mile Holdings: Last Mile Holdings is designed to be an alternative mode of transportation for when traveling too far to bike and too close to drive.
Emily Kirsch
Founder and CEO of Powerhouse
Emily Kirsch is the Founder and CEO at Powerhouse.
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About Powerhouse, Powerhouse: Your partner in building the future of energy and mobility.
Marco McCottry
CEO of Wheels
Marco McCottry is the chief operating officer of Wheels. Previously,McCottry served as an executive at Uber where he ran the Midwest business, and most recently led North American Operations for Bird.
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About Wheels: Wheels is a shared electric mobility platform that provides transportation services to the masses.
Jason Appelbaum
CEO of EverCharge
Jason Appelbaum, founder and CEO of EverCharge and has a background in bringing products to market as a serial entrepreneur. He set out to drive an electric car, and he ended up finding a problem significant enough to start EverCharge. Jason has 15+ years of experience in consumer electronics, IOT, computer software, and wireless networks. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Southern University.
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About EverCharge: Evercharge provides electric vehicle charging services to EV owners in multi-unit residences.
Mike P. Lewis
CEO & Co-founder of Onward Rides
Mike Lewis graduated Dartmouth College in 2000 with a Computer Science degree. Following Dartmouth, Mike worked at AOL and AOL Time Warner reporting to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) [Bill Raduchel](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bill-raduchel). In 2006, Mike founded the company [Qloud](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/qloud) with partner Toby Murdock. Qloud grew to over 25 million monthly uniques and was acquired by BUZZMEDIA for $8 million. Following the acquisition by BUZZMEDIA, Mike became EVP of Product for all of BUZZMEDIA brands and grew the company’s traffic from 25 million monthly uniques to over 50 million. In late 2009, Mike founded the company [Grogger](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grogger) which changed its name to [Kapost](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kapost) in early 2010. Kapost was part of the 2010 Techstars class. Mike was President and head of Product at Kapost from 2009 to 2015 where it grew from 0 to $10MM in ARR. In 2015, Mike left Kapost and joined Airbnb where he is the product lead for the Business Travel team.
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About Onward Rides: Onward Rides provides safe and reliable transportation for people needing assistance.
João Barros
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Veniam
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About Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Streambolico, Veniam: Veniam is a technology firm that is advancing mobility’s future by enabling the Internet of Moving Things.
Anita Sengupta
CEO of Hydroplane
Dr. Anita Sengupta is CEO and Founder of Hydroplane Ltd., a sustainable aviation and renewable energy technology company. Previously she co-founded ASX an eVTOL UAM company. Previous to that she was Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering at Virgin Hyperloop. Previous to that she was an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She has been developing entry system and propulsion technologies for Mars, Venus, and deep space missions including : lead systems engineer for the MSL supersonic parachute, leading the development of a Mars Ascent Vehicle, the principal investigator for the Orion Vehicle Drogue Parachute Subscale Test Program, entry system lead for a Venus lander mission, lead systems engineer for a Mars Sample return mission concept, and Co-Investigator of several plasma propulsion development programs including VHITAL, NEXIS, and Prometheus 1. Prior to joining JPL she worked in industry on the Delta IV Launch Vehicle, X37 Vehicle, Space Shuttle, and Commercial Communication Satellites (XM-radio). She received her PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California, where she is currently a Research professor in the Astronautics and Space Technology, Viterbi College of Engineering. She received her BS in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University.
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About Airspace Experience Technologies, AirspaceX, Hydroplane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Southern California: Emission free aviation and energy storage technology company
Raj Rao
CEO of Ford Smart Mobility
Rajendra “Raj” Rao is chief executive officer of Ford Smart Mobility LLC, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company formed to accelerate the company’s plans to design, build, grow and invest in emerging mobility services. He assumed the position effective Oct. 10, 2016. Ford Smart Mobility LLC is part of Ford’s expanded business model to be both an auto and a mobility company. The company is continuing to focus on and invest in its core business – designing, manufacturing, marketing, financing and servicing cars, SUVs, trucks and electrified vehicles. At the same time, Ford is aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities through Ford Smart Mobility, the company’s plan to be a leader in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and data and analytics.
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About Ford Smart Mobility: Ford Smart Mobility LLC, a new subsidiary formed to design, build, grow and invest in emerging mobility services
Jeremy Bodenhamer
Co-founder & CEO of ShipHawk
Jeremy Bodenhamer is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of Hawk Applications Corp. (www.ShipHawk.com).
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About ShipHawk: ShipHawk is the premier packing and shipping software for ERP connected companies.
Glenn Johansen
President and CEO of LightRiver Technologies
Since founding LightRiver Technologies in 1998, Glenn Johansen has grown the company to be North America’s largest multi-vendor transport systems integrator for independent network operators with over 100 clients. As President and CEO, Glenn leverages 20 years of experience in telecommunications with a deep understanding of his clients’ business to drive LightRiver’s strategy and business partners as well as manage relationships with the company’s anchor clients. Under his guidance LightRiver has been recognized with numerous industry and partner awards including multiple Top Vendor Awards, and is readily recognized as a leader in its field and a fierce advocate for its customers. Prior to LightRiver, Glenn served in various marketing, sales, market development and management roles at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where he was nominated for the prestigious Leadership Continuity Program for top executives and was awarded the Summit of Excellence Award, Lucent’s top accolade, for business innovation and sales leadership. Glenn began his career as an Aerospace Engineer at Singer-Kearfott where he helped pioneer the development and manufacturing of Laser Gyroscopes for Inertial Navigation Systems. Glenn received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from Northeastern University. Glenn served on the Utilities Telecom Council’s inaugural Smart Networks Council Board of Directors.
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About LightRiver Technologies: LightRiver, a multi-vendor integrator of transport solutions.
Dakota Semler
CEO and Co-Founder of Xos Trucks
Dakota Semler is the CEO and Co-Founder at Xos Trucks.
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About Xos Trucks: Xos Trucks specializes in the field of manufacturing fully electric commercial vehicles.
Gordon Paddison
CEO of Stradella Road
Gordon is CEO of Stradella Road, which Fast Company Magazine named to its annual list of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Hollywood. Stradella Road represents Academy Award- winning filmmaker Peter Jackson for digital brand strategy and provides consulting and social media support for clients, including Twitter, RealD, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, LionsGate, The Weinstein Company, Warner Bros., Anchor Bay Entertainment and ABC- Disney Television. Recently for Lucasfilm, Gordon led digital for Disney’s Lucasfilm acquisition and integration, reorganized the digital team and initiated strategic planning for ongoing development of the Star Wars franchise online. As an investor, Gordon works with entrepreneurs at Umbel, Rockify, OpenBucks, EpoxyTV, Kite, Defy Media, Blayze, CakeHealth, Buffer and Appssavvy. As an advisor he supports GroupMe, Eventful and Simulmedia. Awarded Variety and iMedia’s “Integrated Marketer of the Year Award” he has a dozen years senior management experience at Time Warner, bringing more than 200 feature films to market including The Lord of the Rings trilogy, while heading studio digital media buying, business development, and cross division integrated marketing. Gordon served on the Time Warner Research Council and as a member of the Board of Governors at The American Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. e-mail: gordon [at] stradellaroad.com Linked-in: http://linkd.in/v82mRl
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About Stradella Road: Stradella Road is a partner who Fast Company says is one of the top 10 most innovative companies in Hollywood (thanks, FC!).
Alexander Mans
Founder & CEO of FLYR Labs
Building Great Companies
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About FLYR Labs, Hubskip: FLYR Labs develops the Cirrus Revenue Operating System™ to help airlines make informed decisions.
Douglas Coughran
Co-Founder & CEO of Foxtrot Systems
Douglas Coughran is the co-founder and CEO at Foxtrot Systems and is previously a committee member at MIT Initiative on Innovation.
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About Foxtrot Systems: Foxtrot Systems is an automated last-mile fleet management ecosystem focused on empowering the future of the supply chain.
