Robin Chase
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Robin Chase is the founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a peer-to-peer car sharing service. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar
, an innovative car sharing service. She also started GoLoco.org, a venture combining online carpool
ing and social networking. She is also founder of Meadow Networks, a transportation consulting firm, and maintains a blog Network Musings on the topics of climate change, transportation, and wireless networks.
, and won a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
.
, on the US Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advisory Committee, a member of the World Economic Forum
's Transportation Council, and a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
She has served on the Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force, and Governor Deval Patrick
's Transportation Transition Team. She has been appeared in national media such as the Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired
, Newsweek
and Time magazines, and has been mentioned in several books on entrepreneurship.
Chase is a proponent for the creation of a mesh network so that end-user devices can create a shared wireless network. She is a proponent of expanding internet access, and participated in the InternetforEveryone kick-off event.
Chase and her husband Roy Russell live in Paris, France. Roy is the Technical Director of Buzzcar and was Zipcar's founding CTO for 6.5 years.
's Fast 50 Champions of Innovation, technology and innovation awards from Fortune, CIO, and InfoWorld
magazines, and numerous environmental awards from national, state and local governments and organizations.
Zipcar
Zipcar is an American membership-based car sharing company providing automobile reservations to its members, billable by the hour or day. Zipcar was founded in 2000 by Cambridge, Massachusetts residents Antje Danielson and Robin Chase, and is now led by Scott Griffith, Chairman and Chief Executive...
, an innovative car sharing service. She also started GoLoco.org, a venture combining online carpool
Carpool
Carpooling , is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car....
ing and social networking. She is also founder of Meadow Networks, a transportation consulting firm, and maintains a blog Network Musings on the topics of climate change, transportation, and wireless networks.
Early life
Chase graduated from Wellesley College and the MIT Sloan School of ManagementMIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
, and won a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Harvard Graduate School of Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is a graduate school at Harvard University offering degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design.-History:...
.
Career
Chase is currently a Board member for the World Resources InstituteWorld Resources Institute
The World Resources Institute is an environmental think tank founded in 1982 based in Washington, D.C. in the United States.WRI is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization with a staff of more than 100 scientists, economists, policy experts, business analysts, statistical analysts,...
, on the US Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advisory Committee, a member of the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
's Transportation Council, and a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
She has served on the Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force, and Governor Deval Patrick
Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrick is the 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton...
's Transportation Transition Team. She has been appeared in national media such as the Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
and Time magazines, and has been mentioned in several books on entrepreneurship.
Chase is a proponent for the creation of a mesh network so that end-user devices can create a shared wireless network. She is a proponent of expanding internet access, and participated in the InternetforEveryone kick-off event.
Chase and her husband Roy Russell live in Paris, France. Roy is the Technical Director of Buzzcar and was Zipcar's founding CTO for 6.5 years.
Awards
Chase has won several awards. She was listed as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2009, received the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, Start-up Woman of the Year, Business Week’s top 10 designers, Fast CompanyFast Company (magazine)
Fast Company is a full-color business magazine that releases 10 issues per year and reports on topics including innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design, and social responsibility...
's Fast 50 Champions of Innovation, technology and innovation awards from Fortune, CIO, and InfoWorld
InfoWorld
InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG...
magazines, and numerous environmental awards from national, state and local governments and organizations.
External links
- Wired interview by David Weinberger
- TED Talks: Robin Chase on Zipcar and her next big idea at TEDTED (conference)TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
in 2007 - Internet for Everyone Kickoff
- Profile from Technology Review
- Share a car; save the world
- Chasing away urban congestion
- On the go with a Transportation Entrepreneur
- The future of the car
- Zipcar Founder Tells How GoLoco Will Make Carpooling Hip, Too
- Robin Chase