- Robin Chase
Robin Chase is the co-founder and former CEO of
Zipcar , an innovative car sharing service, and is currently the CEO ofGoLoco.org , a venture combining onlinecarpool ing and social networking. She is also founder ofMeadow Networks , a transportation consulting firm, and maintains a blogNetwork Musings on the topics of climate change, transportation, and wireless networks.Chase has been frequently featured in the major media including the "Today Show", "The
New York Times ",National Public Radio , "Wired", "Newsweek " and "Time" magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship. She has received many awards, including the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, Start-up Woman of the Year, "Business Week ’s" top 10 designers, "Fast Company'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.Chase graduated from
Wellesley College andMIT ’sSloan School of Management , and won the competitive Loeb Fellowship at theHarvard Graduate School of Design . [ [http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/10.21/11-zipcar.html Harvard Gazette: Zipcar creator looks toward bigger challenges ] ]Chase and her husband Roy Russell live in
Cambridge, Massachusetts , with their three children, the oldest of whom is modelCameron Russell . Roy is the Chief Technology Officer of GoLoco and was Zipcar's founding CTO for 6.5 years.References
External links
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/article/17158/ Profile from Technology Review]
* [http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2007/id20070813_436002.htm Share a car; save the world]
* [http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Chasing-Away-Urban-Congestion/ Chasing away urban congestion]
* [http://www.boomerstv.com/episodes_video.php?lid=325 On the go with a Transportation Entrepreneur]
* [http://fora.tv/2007/09/12/MoM_Innovative_Mobility_Strategies The future of the car]
* [http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/magazine/15-06/st_chase Zipcar Founder Tells How GoLoco Will Make Carpooling Hip, Too]
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