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Ryan Driscoll Spent 15 Years Turning Fleet Data Into a Story People Could Use
From employee No. 11 at GPS Insight to the C-suite at RTA, his career has followed one durable idea: data earns its keep only when a person can act on it.
Leslie Henthorn Makes the Complicated Feel Worth Caring About
Across Cisco, Twilio, Ironclad and now Fleetio, Leslie Henthorn has built a career around a deceptively difficult job: turning complex technology into clarity, connection and trust.
Andrea Rowan Built Her Career Where Marketing Meets the Messy Middle
The Denver executive has spent two decades turning scattered signals into operating systems - first for media and marketing teams, now for the businesses that keep vehicles, technicians and customer promises moving.
Elliot Margul Built the Quiet Software Behind 5,000 Aircraft
He began in airline finance, where one maintenance decision could echo years into the future. Ten years later, the planning software he co-founded had become part of AAR's aviation technology portfolio.
David Hodge Is Teaching Fleets to Speak Software
He started with subway directions that worked underground. Now the Embark founder and former Apple engineering manager is removing the hardware, handoffs, and guesswork from running connected vehicles.
Yasovardhan Chinni
Yasovardhan Chinni, known in the industry as YC, is a marine engineer turned entrepreneur who runs YC Ventures, a Dubai-based diversified investment group built around a maritime core. Starting from the engine room, he founded Nan Lian Ship Management in 2015 and expanded into commercial shipping, ship management, maritime fintech, marine e-commerce, and energy storage. Through YC Ventures he owns and operates a fleet of tankers, bulk carriers, and offshore vessels while backing ventures like ShipFinex, Shipskart, and Terranova Green Energy.
Sylvanus Mahe
Sylvanus Mahe is the co-founder and CEO of Flott HQ (YC X25), an AI-native operating system for vehicle fleet management. A former McKinsey and Datadog operator and AI engineer, he teamed up with high school friend Kanvaly Fadiga after running a car rental side business in Cote d'Ivoire exposed them to the fragmented, spreadsheet-and-WhatsApp reality of running fleets. Flott unifies planning, live GPS and fuel tracking, invoicing, and payments into one control center run by AI agents. The company reached $200k ARR growing 45% month over month, almost entirely through word of mouth.
Chazz Sims
Chazz Sims is the CEO and co-founder of Wise Systems, a Boston-area company that uses machine learning to plan and continuously re-plan last-mile delivery routes in real time. Born in Irmo, South Carolina, he studied computer science at MIT and turned a Media Lab class project into a logistics platform now used by fleets like Anheuser-Busch and Lyft. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Enterprise Technology in 2021 for the company's role keeping supply chains moving during the pandemic.
Mark Messina
Mark Messina is Managing Director and CEO of ANSCER Robotics Americas, the U.S. arm of a Bengaluru-based hybrid autonomous mobile robot company. With more than 25 years across engineering, manufacturing and operations, he helped build the modern warehouse-robot industry from the inside - joining Amazon during the Kiva Systems acquisition, later working on Amazon Prime Air drones, IoT at Mattel, and leading U.S. expansions for Geek+ and Addverb. He now runs ANSCER's Austin, Texas headquarters, championing a frugal, ROI-first approach to robotics and a Robots-as-a-Service model built to put automation within reach of small operators.
Jeremy Gelbart
Jeremy Gelbart is the co-founder and CEO of Autobrain, a Boca Raton company that turns any ordinary car into a connected 'smart car' through a plug-and-play device offering GPS tracking, diagnostics, automatic crash response, and family-safety alerts. A serial entrepreneur who has been building since college, he first drew national attention as co-founder of Ultrinsic, a platform that let students legally wager cash on their own grades, and later founded the medical-notification startup BeeperMD. His through-line is a simple bet: that the right incentive, or the right piece of hardware, can change everyday behavior.
Jing Zhu
Jing Zhu is the Founder and CEO of Duet (Dashboard Story, Inc.), a B2B SaaS platform built for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) providers across the United States. A Cornell PhD-turned-Berkeley MBA, she spent a decade in corporate healthcare before founding Duet — first as a neighborhood carpooling app, then pivoting to a full-stack dispatching and billing platform that helps wheelchair, stretcher, and ambulatory transport operators run leaner and get paid faster. Based in San Francisco, Zhu leads a 12-person team and has raised $120K in seed funding.
Leonardo Gannio
Leonardo Gannio is the founder and CEO of MAGIIS, a Miami-based mobility-as-a-service platform for transportation-for-hire operators. A serial entrepreneur born in Buenos Aires, he built the technology distributor AKTIO Group into a $500M, seven-country business before selling it, after corporate stints at NCR, Informix, PeopleSoft, Lexmark and Ingram Micro. He is the author of 'Mobility 3.0: How to Win and Thrive in the Future of Passenger Transportation' and a keynote speaker who casts the future of mobility as electric, autonomous, connected and personalized.
Lisa Mullen
Lisa Mullen is the CEO and Managing Partner of Drōv Technologies, an Oklahoma City company building the brains for the most ignored object in trucking: the trailer. Under her leadership the company scrapped its old mechanical tire-inflation products, re-engineered the wheel-end from scratch, and shipped AirBoxOne - an IoT gateway that turns a dumb steel box into a sensor-laden, self-inflating, camera-equipped machine that reports its own health in real time. She took the top job in March 2020, weeks before the world locked down, and spent the next years proving that the part of the truck nobody thinks about is exactly where the value hides.
Peter Yorke
Peter Yorke is the CEO and co-founder of Voyomotive, a San Francisco connected-car company whose VOYO device turns an ordinary car's OBD-II port into a smartphone-controlled second brain. A native Californian who has worn the hats of scientist, venture capitalist, and serial entrepreneur, Yorke built a platform that locks doors by proximity, reads manufacturer fault codes, logs trips, and crowdsources road-hazard alerts. VOYO swept the 2015 SEMA show awards and exhibited as one of the most advanced after-market connected-car systems at CES 2016.
Avneesh Agrawal
Avneesh Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Netradyne, the San Diego AI company that turns dashcams into a real-time safety coach for commercial drivers. After more than a decade at Qualcomm, where he led 4G LTE research, ran corporate R&D, and served as president of Qualcomm India and South Asia, he left in 2015 to chase a convergence he saw coming: cheap camera sensors, edge computing, and deep learning arriving at the same moment. Netradyne's Driver-i platform now analyzes billions of miles of driving and reduces accidents by 30 to 50 percent. In January 2025, a $90 million Series D led by Point72 pushed the company past a $1 billion valuation. A Stanford PhD with more than 150 US patents, Agrawal builds at the intersection of research and the real world.
Dennis Chang
Dennis Chang is the co-founder and CEO of RoadFlex, a Visa fuel and expense card built for the unglamorous fleets that keep America moving - HVAC vans, landscaping trucks, delivery rigs. A Taiwanese-Peruvian who grew up in Lima and trades in three languages, he studied materials science and management engineering at Stanford, consulted at McKinsey, co-founded an AI grid-inspection startup, and spent years as a venture investor before deciding the most interesting problem in fintech was hiding at the gas pump: fuel fraud. RoadFlex pairs real-time transaction controls and telematics validation to stop a driver from filling a personal pickup on the company dime.
Mark Hoadley
Mark Hoadley is the co-founder and CEO of Hauler Hero, a vertical software company building cloud-native, AI-powered tools for the waste and recycling industry - CRM, dispatch, routing, billing and customer portals for the haulers that pick up the trash. A former ServiceTitan sales leader, he and brother-in-law Ben Sikma launched the company in 2020 after watching how outdated the software running garbage trucks really was. Hauler Hero now serves more than 200 hauling companies and has facilitated roughly 35 million trash pickups, raising a $16M Series A led by Frontier Growth in early 2026.
Ezra Goldman
Ezra Goldman is the co-founder and CEO of Upshift, a San Francisco-based company reinventing how city dwellers access cars. Rather than owning or leasing a vehicle full-time, Upshift members subscribe to a car that appears at their door when needed and vanishes when they don't - a fractional model that eliminates insurance headaches, maintenance costs, and the guilt of a depreciating asset sitting idle 95% of the time. Goldman brings 25+ years of shared-transportation obsession to the role, starting with a communist-themed campus bikeshare in 1999, through an MIT master's in urban planning, a PhD stint in Copenhagen studying why Danes ride bikes, and stints at City CarShare and ReachNow before building Upshift into a platform backed by MINI (BMW), Ford, and thousands of crowdfunding investors.
Alain Samaha
Alain Samaha is President & CEO of Teletrac Navman and President of Alternative Energy & Sustainable Fleets at Vontier, bringing over 20 years of technology leadership to the intersection of IoT, AI, and fleet management. A Stanford-trained aeronautical engineer turned enterprise software executive, he previously held senior roles at Trimble including President of the Utilities and Public Administration group. At Teletrac Navman - a global telematics SaaS leader with ~850 employees and $245M in annual revenue - Samaha is steering the company's push into AI-powered fleet safety, multi-energy transition, and a 'single pane of glass' platform vision for fleet operators worldwide.
Ritu Narayan
Ritu Narayan is the founder and CEO of Zūm, the Redwood City company rebuilding the United States' largest mass transit system: the yellow school bus. After 15 years as a product leader at eBay, Yahoo, Oracle and IBM, she left to fix the unreliable rides she was juggling for her own kids. Today Zūm runs electric school bus fleets for more than 4,000 schools, deployed the nation's first all-electric district fleet in Oakland with vehicle-to-grid technology, and has raised about $577 million.
Arun Rajagopalan
Arun Rajagopalan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Motorq, a San Francisco-based connected vehicle data platform that gives enterprises direct access to OEM-embedded vehicle data without any aftermarket hardware. With a career arc that spans vehicle control systems engineering at Robert Bosch, strategy consulting at Booz & Company, and big-data leadership at Mu Sigma, Arun founded Motorq in 2016 to solve a deceptively simple problem: cars are generating enormous amounts of data, but that data is locked inside hundreds of incompatible systems. Motorq unlocks it, normalizes it, and pipes it to fleets, insurers, and OEM dealers through clean APIs. The company has raised $89.3M in total funding, including a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners in February 2022, and now has partnerships with 10 of the top global OEMs covering more than 51 million vehicles.
Mike Pecina
Mike Pecina is the founder of Firevine Advertising and Design, an award-winning full-service agency in Edwardsburg, Michigan, and a brand positioning specialist with deep ties to Booster, the Series D-funded mobile fuel delivery platform reimagining how fleets, businesses, and institutions refuel without a gas station. Described on LinkedIn as a 'Brand Positioning & Awareness Junkie,' Pecina brings a rare blend of creative strategy and operational savvy to the fast-moving world of decarbonized, on-demand fuel logistics.
Shridhar Gupta
Shridhar Gupta is the co-founder of LocoNav, a fast-growing fleet management SaaS platform that tracks over 5 million commercial vehicles across 50+ countries. Based between New Delhi and San Francisco, he co-built LocoNav from a 2016 startup into a $75M ARR business by 2025, raising $47M including a $37M Series B from investors like Sequoia Capital India and Quiet Capital. His mission: democratize fleet technology in emerging markets where 70% of 250 million commercial vehicles run with zero tech.
Vidit Jain
Vidit Jain is the co-founder of LocoNav, a full-stack AI-powered fleet management platform serving 500,000+ vehicle owners across 50+ countries. A mechanical-engineer-turned-software-builder, he pivoted from early-stage stints at ClearTax and Bizzy to co-found LocoNav in 2016 alongside Shridhar Gupta. The company has raised $47 million (including a $37M Series B in 2021) and tracks over 5 million vehicles globally, positioning itself as the emerging-market answer to Samsara. Vidit also angel-invests in startups and serves on one board.
Regina Clewlow
Regina Clewlow is a transportation scientist turned CEO who co-founded Populus, the urban curb and mobility management platform that became the operating system for city streets - helping over 100 cities worldwide manage the explosive growth of scooters, bikes, delivery fleets, and autonomous vehicles. Armed with a PhD from MIT and deep research roots at Stanford and UC Berkeley, Clewlow bridged academia and industry to turn GPS data and curb regulations into digital intelligence for cities. Populus was acquired by IPS Group in November 2025, cementing its place as the infrastructure layer between cities and the mobility economy.
Joshua Carter
Joshua Carter is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aperia Technologies, a Hayward, California-based cleantech company he helped launch in 2010 after spinning out technology from Stanford University. Under his leadership, Aperia developed the Halo Tire Inflator - a self-powered, bolt-on automatic tire inflation system that uses a wheel's own rotation to maintain optimal tire pressure on commercial trucks and trailers. The company has logged over 100 billion miles with the Halo system, saved more than 716,000 metric tons of CO2, and secured over $148 million in total funding, including a $45 million growth equity round in 2023. In 2025, Aperia signed an exclusive automatic tire inflation agreement with Goodyear for its Tires-as-a-Service platform. Carter holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and an MS in Design Methodology from Stanford University.