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Nir Bezalel and the distance between a map and a journey
He joined Moovit to build the engineering operation. Twelve years later, Nir Bezalel became CEO - with the same old problem waiting outside: getting people where they need to go.
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.
David Block-Schachter
David Block-Schachter is the Chief Business Officer at Transit, the multimodal trip-planning and fare-payment app used in cities across North America and Europe. A car-free MIT transportation PhD who started his career designing websites for American Express and IBM, he co-founded the microtransit startup Bridj, ran customer technology as CTO of the MBTA, and now helps transit agencies turn rider data into faster buses and simpler fares. His through-line: use technology and data to make public transit work better for everyone.
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.