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LEADERSHIP TEAM
Edwin Olson
Chief Executive Officer
Edwin Olson is co-founder and CEO of May Mobility, Inc. He has focused on the development of autonomous vehicles for over a decade, helping to develop Ford Motor Company’s autonomous vehicles and co-leading autonomous vehicle development at Toyota Research Institute. Under his leadership, May Mobility was named the Ann Arbor SPARK Entrepreneurial Company of the Year in 2020. He is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
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Manik Dhar
Chief Commercial Officer
Manik Dhar is Chief Commercial Officer at May Mobility, Inc. He is responsible for developing and implementing May’s growth strategy. No stranger to the tech sector, Dhar has more than 25 years’ experience helping startups and industry giants alike expand and achieve scale. Prior to joining the company in February 2022, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at data-annotation firm CloudFactory. He has also led student-transportation disruptor Zūm to 10x growth in two years, and held executive positions at Google and Oracle. Dhar majored in computer science at Bangalore University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
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Ryan Green
Chief Financial Officer
Ryan Green is Chief Financial Officer of May Mobility, Inc. He joined the company in May of 2021 and is responsible for leading May’s financial operations, including the finance, accounting and corporate governance functions. Prior to joining May, Green was the CFO at Rivian, the American electric vehicle maker and automotive technology company. Prior to Rivian, he served as the CFO for Harley Davidson Financial Services, and held various financial leadership positions at Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Bayer AG and Ford/Visteon. Green holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Michigan State University, and an MBA from Wayne State University.
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Tom Tang
Chief People Officer
Tom Tang is Chief People Officer of May Mobility, Inc. He joined the company in July of 2020 and is responsible for talent acquisition, leadership development, total rewards, DEI&B, people operations, and employee engagement. Prior to joining May, Tang was the head of employee experience at Cruise where he grew the team from 100 to over 2,000 employees over the course of 3 years.
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Jacob Crossman
Vice President of Autonomy
Jacob Crossman is Vice President of Autonomy at May Mobility, Inc. He was appointed to the position in August of 2021 and is responsible for the company’s autonomy engineering and robotics engineering functions and teams in development and deployment of May Mobility’s autonomous vehicles. Crossman joined May Mobility after more than 20 years of professional experience in research and development of autonomous sense/react technologies at Soar Technology, Inc. and Deepgram.
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Keith Hadi
Vice President of Vehicle Engineering
Keith Hadi is Vice President of Vehicle Engineering for May Mobility, Inc. He was appointed to the position in October of 2021 and is responsible for overseeing vehicle engineering, production, launch, and fleet solutions engineering. Prior to joining May Mobility, Hadi was Director of ADAS Product Development at HARMAN International and held various ADAS, engineering, and engineering management roles at Veoneer, Hella, Bosch, and Daimler Chrysler. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Oakland University and an Executive MBA from Michigan State University.
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Nicole Kelly
Vice President of Customer Operations
Nicole Kelly is Vice President of Customer Operations at May Mobility, Inc. Kelly and her team work closely to define the needs of each customer and the key metrics for success. Kelly joined May Mobility after nearly 20 years of logistics and operations experience including launching the European distribution center for Skechers in Belgium and establishing financial auditing operations in Mexico for Ryder.
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Kamil Litman
Vice President of Software
Kamil Litman is Vice President of Software at May Mobility, Inc. He was appointed to this position in June 2020 and is responsible for DevOps, Data practice, and full-stack development of experiences for internal and external customers. Litman joined May Mobility after leading Software Engineering at StockX. Prior to joining StockX, Litman spent 13 years at GE in various positions before becoming Vice President of Software Engineering at GE Digital.
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Sheryl Seitz
Vice President of Marketing and Communications
Sheryl Seitz is Vice President of Marketing & Communications at May Mobility, Inc. She is responsible for our go-to-market strategy, brand development, community, global PR, content and social media. Seitz joined May Mobility after leading Marketing and Communications at Plus One Robotics. Prior to that, she worked for Apple and Samsung, and startups including Mapbox.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Benjamin Birnbaum
Partner at Keyframe
Benjamin Birnbaum is a Board Director for May Mobility, Inc. Birnbaum is a founder and partner of Keyframe Capital, a cross-asset investment fund that focuses on enabling change in physical infrastructure categories, like transportation, energy, and the built environment, as well as a founder of Terawatt Infrastructure, a developer, owner, and operator of electric vehicle charging assets. Prior to this, Ben was the Vice President of Strategy for MV Transportation; operating in over 200 cities, MV is of the world’s largest transit operators. Birnbaum holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University.
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Ray Cheng
Partner at Millennium Technology Value Partners
Ray Cheng is a Board Director for May Mobility, Inc. Ray is a Partner at Millennium, an investment firm that has backed many significant technology companies from Facebook and Twitter to Alibaba and Zappos. Prior to joining Millennium, Ray spent three years with Rho Ventures where he was a Senior Analyst in their New York office. Ray also serves as a founding advisor to Komodo Health, and was previously an advisor to HackHands, which was acquired by Plursalsight in July 2015. Ray graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Systems Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Jennifer Keesmaat
Partner, Markee Developments / CEO, The Keesmaat Group / Former Chief City Planner, City of Toronto
Jennifer Keesmaat is a Board Director for May Mobility, Inc. Keesmaat spent half a decade as Toronto’s Chief City Planner, where she was celebrated for her forward-thinking and collaborative approach to city-building. Keesmaat is a founding partner of Markee Developments. A Distinguished Visitor in Residence Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Keesmaat continues to share her vision for cities through a variety of publications and on her podcast, Invisible City. Keesmaat is the Chief Architect of the 2020 Declaration for Resilience in Canadian Cities, a blueprint for adapting cities post Covid19. Keesmaat is on the Advisory Board of the Urban Land Institute, Toronto, and is appointed to the International Panel of Experts, Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority.
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Seiji Miyasaka
Head of US Team, Mirai Creation Fund, SPARX Group
Seiji Miyasaka is a Board Director for May Mobility, Inc. With almost twenty years of experience as a leader in private equity investment, Seiji is a U.S. team leader at Mirai Creation Fund, a venture capital fund managed by SPARX Group that invests into next generation technologies including AI, robotics, energy solutions, electrification, and carbon neutrality. Prior to joining SPARX Group, Seiji served as chief operating officer and president of Japanese energy-focused private equity fund IDI Infrastructures Inc., after having gained experience working in corporate finance at the Industrial Bank of Japan. Seiji holds a Master of Law degree from Duke University’s School of Law, as well as a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law.
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Yosuke Tsuruta
Vice President of Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) in DX & Mobility
Yosuke (Ken) Tsuruta is a Board Member for May Mobility, Inc. As the vice president of dealer experience and mobility at Toyota Motor North America, he leads activities driving Toyota’s Mobility as a Service (Autono-MaaS) and flying mobility businesses. With his roles spanning across Japan, Thailand and the U.S. during his more than 20 years with Toyota, he has led projects including the development of the e-Palette and collaborations with mobility partners including May Mobility, Uber, and Aurora, as well as a collaboration with NTT – the largest telecommunications carrier to develop mobility services and smart city platforms. He helped establish MONET Technologies, a joint venture between Toyota and Softbank to provide on-demand mobility services with an autonomous module bus, as well as Fengju Chuxing – a car rental service provider, covering automotive sales, technology development and online ride-hailing that is a joint venture between Toyota and Chinese company DiDi Chuxing. Yosuke holds a degree from Waseda University.
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Edwin Olson
Chief Executive Officer
Edwin Olson is a Board Director, co-founder and CEO of May Mobility, Inc. Olson has focused on the development of autonomous vehicles for over a decade, helping to develop Ford Motor Company’s autonomous vehicles and co-leading autonomous vehicle development at Toyota Research Institute. Under his leadership, May Mobility was named the Ann Arbor SPARK Entrepreneurial Company of the Year in 2020. He is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
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It all starts with why.
THE VALUES THAT MAKE US MAY MOBILITY
We are a diverse group of curious humans, solving a diverse spectrum of autonomous mobility challenges. We come to work everyday to move another step closer to our vision of a safer, greener, more accessible world. Here’s a sampling of the tenets we all believe in.
Value personal relationships.
We believe the path to the best results are paved with empathy, inclusivity and collaboration.
Do what's right.
Trust is sacred. We earn the trust of our customers and colleagues every day by doing the right thing every time with safety being of paramount importance and a point of pride.
Consider the bigger picture.
We operate in the real world and measure our success by the positive impact we have on each other and the communities we serve.
Drive with purpose.
We empower our people. Every project, decision, and action stems from our shared determination to create a safer, greener, more accessible world.WE ARE MAYNIACS.
They say “company culture” is important. We tend to agree. Especially when some of it gets delightfully weird. Here’s a little sampling of the fun we have at May.
MAYniac
[MAYnēˌak] noun
[MAYnēˌak] noun
- A person with an inordinate or ungovernable enthusiasm for making the world safer, greener, and more accessible through autonomous technology.
- A term used to refer to May Mobility team members to foster a sense of belonging.
