Oct 25, 2017   SOURCE: BusinessWire

BestMile Expands Its Executive Team with Mobility Industry Hires

BestMile, the leading platform for the operation and optimization of autonomous and ridesharing mobility solutions, announced today two new additions to its executive team. Lissa Franklin has joined the company as Vice President Business Development and Marketing, and Marco Laumanns as Vice President Research. Both executives have impressive track records in connected vehicle and transportation services.

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Lissa brings extensive experience in market development and customer driven solutions in new mobility services. At BestMile she directs a team of business development professionals in Europe and the U.S. and leads the marketing strategy for the company. Lissa previously managed AppDirect’s Connected Vehicles Practice where she worked with OEMs, Tier 1s and technology providers. As a Silicon Valley executive, she built her broad experience in SaaS based products, mobility services, and connected cars and fleets. Lissa is also part of the executive team of the Connected Vehicle Trade Association.

Marco brings significant industry and research expertise in public transportation and optimization. At BestMile, he is building and managing an interdisciplinary team of highly skilled transportation researchers, data scientists, and algorithm engineers. Previously as Project Leader for Transportation and Operations Research at IBM Research, Marco was globally responsible for public transport activities across IBM’s world-wide labs. He is a regular adviser to major public transport operators and governments to provide thought leadership on future mobility issues including new service designs and automation of planning and operations.

“Lissa and Marco bring to BestMile a wealth of experience in transportation and mobility services. These positions add to the expertise of the executive team, including the hire of CTO Zhao Lu earlier this year,” said Raphael Gindrat, CEO and co-founder of BestMile. “They will be major drivers of the company’s next phase of growth as we continue to innovate around the world.”

BestMile empowers mobility providers, OEMs and technology providers to deliver innovative, efficient and flexible mobility services leveraging autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing solutions. BestMile’s cloud platform intelligently optimizes and integrates autonomous vehicles in the existing human-driven environment. Since its launch in 2014, BestMile’s platform has enabled the transportation of more than 200,000 people globally in commercial autonomous deployments in cities, campuses, public roads and more.

BestMile will be at ITS World Congress in Montreal, October 30rd to November 2nd. Meet the team at booth #2122 for a demonstration of the latest features of the platform and discuss BestMile’s most recent deployments. Raphael Gindrat, BestMile’s CEO, will also give a presentation during the Session “Reinventing Public Transport with Smart Shuttles” on Tuesday October 31st.

About BestMile

BestMile empowers mobility providers to manage autonomous and ridesharing fleet solutions. BestMile’s cloud platform enables the intelligent operation and optimization of autonomous mobility services, managing fixed-route and on-­demand services, regardless of the vehicle brand or type. BestMile pioneered on-demand autonomous mobility services and is now enabling the first electric autonomous vehicles circulating in city centers on both pedestrian areas and open roads, servicing the public daily. Incorporated in 2014, BestMile has global offices in San Francisco (USA), Lausanne (Switzerland) and London (UK). www.bestmile.com