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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 United States based CEO’ operating in the GPS space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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.
Ryan Rzepecki
founder and CEO of Social Bicycles
Ryan Rzepecki was the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber in 2018), focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation. Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that time, he worked extensively to bring bike facilities to more New Yorkers. It was this experience that led him to design a high-tech bike share model that he entered in the Copenhagen Design Competition. By 2010, he founded the company under its original name Social Bicycles, and set out to realize his vision of using bicycles as a smarter, cleaner, and more fun mode of urban transportation. His company pioneered “smart bike” technology, allowing bike share to go dockless and become more accessible and convenient for riders. In 2013, Rzepecki was named one of the 100 Coolest People in Tech by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UBM’s Future Cities. He received his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from Pennsylvania State University.
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About Social Bicycles: Social Bicycles provides a scalable bikeshare technology.
Bobby Hambrick
Founder and CEO of AutonomouStuff, LLC
Bobby Hambrick is the founder and CEO of AutonomouStuff, LLC. He founded the company in 2009. Recently, Bobby co-founded another company called PolySync, formerly Harbrick.
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About AutonomouStuff, LLC, Hexagon Positioning Intelligence: AutonomouStuff is a provider of autonomy-enabling technologies that specializes in perception sensors, GPS, and computing.
Joshua Anton
CEO & Co-Founder of Drunk Mode, Inc.
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About Drunk Mode, Inc.: Drunk Mode is your all-in one solution for when you go out.
Timothy Harris
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Swift Navigation
Timothy Harris, co-founder and CEO of Swift Navigation, is focused on building a world-class organization that will power the next generation of GPS-enabled robots and autonomous vehicles. A proven leader in the high-accuracy GPS industry, Tim leads teams that are excited to drive innovation and challenge each other to achieve visionary change. Prior to Swift, he worked in supply chain consulting for OR Soft Jaenicke GmbH in Halle, Germany, and in corporate finance for Emerge Digital Group, where he oversaw M&A and strategic partnerships for a digital media holding company. Tim holds a JD degree from Boston University and a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Swift Navigation: Swift Navigation offers hardware and software that makes GPS positioning technology available for autonomous vehicle and device guidance.
Jayanthi Narasimhan
Founder & CEO of WatchRx
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About WatchRx: WatchRx connects patients, caregivers, and providers to improve medication adherence
HP Jin
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Telenav
HP co-founded Telenav in 1999 and has led the company to become a global leader in location-based services (LBS), automotive navigation and location-targeted mobile advertising. Telenav was the first company to launch GPS navigation services for mobile phones to the world, and today its product reaches more than 100 countries on mobile phones and within vehicles. Telenav was also the first LBS company in the USA to IPO when it began publicly trading on NASDAQ in May 2010. Telenav has subsidiaries in US, China, Europe and South America. Prior to starting Telenav, HP served as a Senior Strategy Consultant for the McKenna Group and a Business Strategy and Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. HP has also served as a Technical Director at LINCSS/Loral Space Communication. HP holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.
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About Telenav: Accelerating towards a connected car future with smarter, easier, safer innovation.
Tao Tong
Co-Founder and CEO of Kolmostar
Tao Tong is the co-founder and CEO at Kolmostar.
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About Kolmostar: Kolmostar is a positioning technology company that revamps the positioning approach in environments for internet-of-things devices.
Raja Appachi
Founder and CEO of DoWhistle
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About DoWhistle: A platform that connects people and businesses for hyperlocal business model.
Penina First
CEO and Founder of Swifto
Penina is the CEO and founder Swifto. Penina won the Prime-Minister award for innovation among youngsters, and the Exit-09 competition sponsored by Google, IBM, KPMG and more.
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About Swifto: Swifto combines old-school dog walking services with new age GPS tracking technology, delivering an optimal dog walking experience.
Eric Kerr
Founder & CEO of TruckMap
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About Browse For A Cause, TruckMap: The Mobile App For Truck Drivers
Stew Langille
Founder & CEO of Float
Stew first saw the potential for the role infographics and data could play in his previous role as Director of Marketing at Mint.com and post acquisition at Intuit.Not only were the infographics that Mint.com produced a great way of presenting complex topics, they generated 30 times more traffic than a comparable text based article. He built the data business at Mint.com and is a pioneer in the use of data as a marketing vehicle for both publishers and brands.Prior to Mint.com, Stew founded iKobo, a mobile payments company.
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About Float: Float is an app-based platform that provides local travel guide for travelers.
Ian Gerard
CEO of Adder
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About Adder, Adder: Adder is a location data analytics platform for smart cities, logistics operators, out of home advertisers, and more.
Jay Van Buren
Co-Founder & CEO of Membit Inc.
Jay Van Buren, co-founder and CEO of Membit, is an innovator, artist, and augmented reality evangelist with 17 years experience in interactive media, marketing, and PR. Jay was responsible for the look and feel of the Forbes-Favorite award winning Multex Investor site in the late 90’s and went on to a career creating interactive marketing and PR vehicles for companies like Conde Nast and Bayer Aspirin. His interactive design studio, early-adopter, has completed sites for clients like Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Drawing Center, Twyla Tharp and Avenues the World School over the past 17 years.
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About City University of New York, Early Adopter, Early Adopter, Membit Inc., The Glimpse Group: Patented location based Augmented Reality featuring Human Positioning System social/mobile AR for the masses
David Near
CEO of Travelmate Robotics
David Near is the chief executive officer and founder at Travelmate Robotics
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About Travelmate Robotics: Travelmate Robotics is a consumer electronics company that manufactures electronic suitcase.
Tara Gupta
Founder & CEO of Map-Collective
Tara Gupta currently works as the Founder and CEO for Map-Collective.
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About Map-Collective: Map-Collective develops a map tracking tool to monitor environmental effects.
Mark Wells
President and CEO of SVR Tracking
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About Positioning Universal, SVR Tracking: A San Diego-based connected car and vehicle asset management company
Patrick Burns
CEO of Haystack Technologies
Pat joined Haystack from Savi Technology where he led marketing, licensing, and alliances for more than six years before and after its acquisition by Lockheed Martin. While at Savi, he spearheaded Savi’s ISO 18000-7 and OEM licensing programs and co-founded the DASH7 Alliance. Prior to Savi, Pat was co-founder of Demandline, a B2B telecom marketplace backed by NEA, and was also a founding member of SkyTel’s Advanced Applications Group, prior to its acquisition by MCI. He has also held positions with ARDIS, a joint venture of IBM and Motorola, as well as positions with the Office of Management and Budget and Office of the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. He holds multiple patents in wireless communications and e-commerce and received a bachelor’s degree from American University and an MBA from Kellogg.
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About Haystack Technologies: The longest range, lowest power GPS asset tracking and connectivity
Desmond Beristain
President & CEO of Festiie
Desmond Beristain joined Festiie as President & CEO in 2016.
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About Festiie: Festiie is the offline GPS tracker for festival-goers that fits in the palm of your hand and transmits over a mile away.
Joshua Konowe
CEO/Founder of Folr
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About Folr: Folr is easy-to-use and comes with a comprehensive reporting / admin suite, in addition to the mobile application.
