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#40 Augustin Friedel, Shared Mobility Expert

#40 Augustin Friedel, Shared Mobility Expert

51m 5s

Augustin is a well-known shared mobility expert with passion for micro mobility, mobility on-demand service and public private partnerships.

#39 Sam Baker, Managing Partner, MobilityFund

#39 Sam Baker, Managing Partner, MobilityFund

40m 40s

Sam studied Finance and Music before he started his career at eBay. He lived in Central America where he led a project funded by the Mastercard Foundation to launch innovative financial products for youth. When he returned to California Sam and Gunnar met and ultimately decided to launch the forerunner of Wunder Mobility. Today Sam is Managing partner at MobilityFund.

#38 Julien Chamussy, Co-founder & CEO, fluctuo

#38 Julien Chamussy, Co-founder & CEO, fluctuo

45m 30s

Julien Chamussy is the CEO and co-founder of fluctuo, Europe’s aggregator of data on shared mobility services like bike, scooter, moped or car sharing.
Prior to that, Julien was VP Marketing of Smovengo, the operator of Vélib which is the public bike-sharing service in Paris and the greater area.
fluctuo sources data from various mobility operators and open source and uses it to provide an overview of the shared mobility industry. Every quarter, they publish the European Shared Mobility Index in which they analyze the development of user numbers or highlight and compare vehicle distribution in different European cities.
We...

#37 Jennifer Dungs, Global Head of Mobility, EIT InnoEnergy

#37 Jennifer Dungs, Global Head of Mobility, EIT InnoEnergy

51m 7s

Jennifer has spent over 20 years in the automotive industry, including Ford, BMW and Porsche. She contributes regularly to Forbes and is a global speaker on the topic of Future Mobility. Today, as Global Head of Mobility at EIT InnoEnergy, she is responsible for all mobility investments with 30 new seed and Series A investments in the last 2 years.

How does InnoEnergy support the European mobility value chain?
How does Jennifer envision Shared Mobility from Europe?
Why InnoEnergy hasn't invested in popular shared mobility players?
What are the pressing challenges in micromobility?

#36 Maya Ben Dror, Practice Manager, Automotive & New Mobility, World Economic Forum

#36 Maya Ben Dror, Practice Manager, Automotive & New Mobility, World Economic Forum

46m 8s

Maya's career is outstanding: she holds a PhD in dynamic transportation policy and technology transition from the Technion and has more than a decade and a half of global work experience in the public, private and third sectors, with a focus on clean technologies and sustainable transport. At WEF, she now leads the Sustainable Automotive and Mobility work.

We started the conversation by elaborating on the WEF's unique approach to improving the state of the world and dived deep into the topics what they believe are the 3 main issues of the hour:
1. urban mobility transitions
2. circularity
3....

#35 Cory Schmidt, Chief Revenue Officer, Wunder Mobility

#35 Cory Schmidt, Chief Revenue Officer, Wunder Mobility

24m 15s

Cory is CRO of Wunder Mobility, the international provider of software and hardware for shared mobility services. In his executive leadership role, Cory oversees Wunder Mobility's marketing and sales organization as well as the account management. Over the last one and a half years Cory wrote his first book on brand primacy and how google made companies the kings of content.
We spoke with him about why building a company's brand is so important and how creating valuable content helps bring organic traffic to the website.

#34 Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General, POLIS Network

#34 Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General, POLIS Network

36m 10s

Karen was appointed as Secretary General of POLIS in September 2014, after havening been the Network's Research Director. Since then she's leading the European network of cities and regions on urban transport innovation. For over 30 years already, members have been working together to develop and deploy sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the city of today and tomorrow.
Karen is certain that what was originally the preserve of the public sector, namely the provision of mobility services, is now also increasingly becoming an area in which private players are becoming active. Over the past few years, this has...

#33 Raymon Pouwels, Co-founder & CEO, GO Sharing

#33 Raymon Pouwels, Co-founder & CEO, GO Sharing

39m 44s

Raymon, 28, was born and raised in the Netherlands. Today he is CEO of one of Europe's fastest-growing shared mobility operators. While he made his first experience in scooter-sharing with German scooter manufacturer Emco, in 2019 he decided together with Donny van den Oever and Doeke Boersma to start GO Sharing with 168 mopeds in Eindhoven. Since then they have multiplied their fleet size several times and now operate a multimodal fleet of about 15,000 vehicles in 60 cities, in 6 countries.

We talked about:
- the need to go multimodal and why this is beneficial for customers
- why...

#32 Thomas Grübel, CEO & Founder, GOVECS

#32 Thomas Grübel, CEO & Founder, GOVECS

39m 40s

Thomas is an entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of electric mobility with more than 20 years of experience in this field. After years in Hong Kong and a successful exit from e-max that was acquired by Vmoto, Thomas founded Govecs in 2009.

Today, Govecs has a 10.5% market share in the fragmented shared electric moped market, making it the fourth-largest manufacturer in the world and the largest from Europe.

We spoke with him about the benefits and advantages of being a German-based company with production facilities in Europe, the increasing importance of total cost of ownership (TCO) for a...

#31 Christian Springub, Co-founder & COO, Dance

#31 Christian Springub, Co-founder & COO, Dance

39m 32s

Christian began his entrepreneurial career in his teenage years when he founded and ran a successful web design agency. In 2007, he co-founded Jimdo, which went on to become one of the world’s leading DIY website builders. After stepping back from daily operations at Jimdo, he founded Dance, the premium e-bike subscription provider, with SoundCloud founders Quidenus-Wahlforss and Ljung.
We spoke to Christian about the market potential of tech-enabled e-bike subscriptions, how they stand out from existing sharing models, and the increasing challenges in the supply chain.