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KeepTruckin Expands Executive Team With Industry Leaders
KeepTruckin,
the leading fleet management platform for growing trucking companies,
today announced the addition of four key executives to its leadership
team - Siva
Gurumurthy as VP of Engineering, Jairam
Ranganathan as VP of Product, Maureen
Bradford as VP of Marketing, and Alice
Sansone as General Counsel and VP of People Operations. With
extensive management experience from Twitter, Uber, Google (News - Alert) and Amazon,
these new additions bring leadership depth to KeepTruckin's executive
team during a period of rapid growth.
Over the past two years KeepTruckin has built the largest network of
connected trucks in the world. More than 250,000 drivers and 50,000
trucking companies depend on KeepTruckin's hardware and software
technology to improve the safety, efficiency and reliability of their
fleets. To support this unprecedented growth, the KeepTruckin team has
expanded to more than 800 employees across 6 global offices.
"Trucking is the backbone of the American economy but has largely been
ignored by Silicon Valley. Our mission is to connect the world's trucks
and bring this industry online," said Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder,
KeepTruckin. "Siva and Jairam bring deep experience in machine learning
and AI and will help us build the products that enable our customers to
run smarter and safer fleets. Maureen and Alice bring marketing and
people operations leadership that will allow us to scale our impact
while preserving our culture. The quality of the talent we've been able
to attract and retain is a direct function of our leadership in the
market and our values-based culture. I'm excited to build the future of
trucking with Maureen, Alice, Siva, and Jai."
KeepTruckn's expanded executive team includes:
Maureen Bradford, Vice President of Marketing
Bradford manages Marketing for KeepTruckin. Previously, Bradford worked
in leadership roles at Google, including Director of Marketing for the
cloud and ads platform businesses. She developed and executed
go-to-market strategies, drove lead generation, partner and reseller
marketing, global field marketing, digital and physical events, and
content marketing. Bradford also worked in marketing leadership roles at
Intel (News - Alert) Corporation. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she earned
her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Siva Gurumurthy, Vice President of Engineering
Gurumurthy leads Software Engineering at KeepTruckin. Prior to joining
KeepTruckin, Gurumurthy worked as Director of Engineering at Twitter (News - Alert)
where he led a 200+ person team responsible for developing and
maintaining the company's consumer-facing product. Before joining
Twitter, he did pioneering work on real time search and graph analysis
at Yahoo! Labs and IBM Research. He was an Edelman (News - Alert) Laureate in 2014.
Gurumurthy earned his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science
and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, and
completed his Masters in Computer Engineering at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
Jairam Ranganathan, Vice President of Product
Ranganathan leads Product vision and development for all of
KeepTruckin's fleet management solutions. Prior to joining KeepTruckin,
Ranganathan worked at Uber where he served as Senior Director of
Product, managing various products from core data and AI capabilities to
marketing systems and operations tooling. Before Uber, Ranganathan
served as Senior Director of Product Management at Cloudera. He earned
his BS and BA in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of
Texas at Austin and completed his Masters in Computer Science at
Stanford University.
Alice Sansone, General Counsel and VP of People Operations
Sansone serves as General Counsel and also leads Human Resources and
Recruiting at KeepTruckin. Prior to joining KeepTruckin, Sansone worked
at several high growth companies, including MC10, Kiva Systems (Amazon
Robotics), and Avid Technology. Most recently, Sansone was Vice
President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Weebly, where she
helped lead the company through its acquisition by Square, Inc. Sansone
earned her BA from Wellesley College, her JD from New York University
School of Law, and studied political philosophy at the University of
Oxford.
More information about KeepTruckin's growing leadership team can be found
here.
About KeepTruckin:
KeepTruckin is on a mission to improve the safety and efficiency of
America's trucking industry by building modern technology products for
truck drivers and fleet managers. The company connects drivers using the KeepTruckin
Electronic Logging Device, KeepTruckin
Electronic Logbook App for iOS and Android,
and the KeepTruckin
Smart Dashcam. The KeepTruckin suite of products help fleets audit
driver logs, manage IFTA
fuel taxes, and track
vehicles in real-time. KeepTruckin is trusted by over 50,000 fleets
for ELD compliance, IFTA reporting, GPS tracking, video monitoring and
much more. The #1 rating comes from our Google Play Store reviews. To
learn more about KeepTruckin visit, keeptruckin.com.
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