Laura is an innovator in advanced transportation with expertise in sustainability, safety, and vehicle/system modeling and analysis. Laura has a BA in Literature and Environmental Engineering from Yale and an MS in Energy from UC Berkeley (PhD 2014). Laura was a Mobility + Vehicle Efficiency consultant at Rocky Mountain Institute and an Innovations Analyst at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She is an NSF Fellow in Energy Engineering.

Paul has 20 years of experience in engineering and product management of business intelligence, analytics, database architectures and Big Data technologies. Paul has a MS and BS in Computer Science from MIT. Paul served as a software engineer at MIT Media Lab, DEC, and Oracle. He co-founded and served as VP, CTO or Chief Architect at Stanford Technology Group (acq’d by Informix), Supplybase (acq’d by I2 Technologies), and Purisma (acq’d by D&B).

Kara has over 15 years experience in locational data management, licensing and contracts, and privacy protection. She most recently served as the VP for Intellectual Property and Privacy at DMTI Spatial, a leading Canadian provider of geospatial data. Previous relevant experience include roles as VP of Sales/Marketing at Navitrak and management roles at NAVTEQ.