About Us
At RideAmigos, we are on a mission to take cars off the road by empowering commuters to make smarter transportation choices. Our mobile and web-based commuter engagement solution combines innovative technology with proven principles of behavioral science and acts as a hub for fragmented industry mobility offerings.
What We Do
Large employers, universities and government agencies use our powerful platform and programs to influence smarter commuter behavior that reduces congestion, parking demand, and environmental impact while creating healthier, happier communities. In 2019, we helped our clients take 4.5 million cars off the road and reduce our collective CO2 footprint by 34.3 million pounds.
RideAmigos Core Values
Embrace and Drive Change
Encourage Individual Contributions and Expressions
Love What You Do
Raise Others to Their Highest Potential
Do More With Less
Build Open and Honest Relationships through Compassion, Humility, a Positive Team and Family Spirit
Jeffrey Chernick
Founder + Director
Jeffrey Chernick is the Director and Co-Founder of RideAmigos, created in 2007 in response to a frustrating one hour subway commute from home to work in New York City. Within a week of the company’s launch, Jeffrey was sharing a $10, 10 minute taxi to work with a neighbor (and co-worker) he did not know prior.
Soren Eilertsen
CEO
Soren Eilertsen, CEO of RideAmigos, creates focus and alignment around strategy and execution with the great people at our company. Soren has worked with RideAmigos since late 2015 and was inspired to join by our founders’ transformational vision of serving to better the world of transportation and commuting.
Evan Meyer
COO + Co-Founder
Evan is the bridge between the front-end and back-end of RideAmigos. He is responsible for ensuring all major business systems and operations are optimized for overall efficiency in our organization. He also spearheads all major projects, and works relentlessly to make sure our clients are 100% satisfied.
Ben Dalton
CTO + Co-Founder
In January of 2009, Ben’s experience in software engineering and user experience led him to join RideAmigos. He is now working as Chief Technology Officer, utilizing his full skill set to ensure that RideAmigos follows a user-centric approach towards development while providing for maximum usability, scalability, and flexibility.
Corey Tucker
Director of Customer Success
Corey brings experience researching and running commuter and transportation management programs at MIT, where she also became an expert RideAmigos administrator. She helps our partners maximize their impact with innovative programs and proven techniques. From getting new partners up and going to helping create new product features, Corey keeps customer success as priority #1.
Mark Stosberg
Director of Systems + Security
Mark focuses on making our backend scalable, fast, and secure. With more than 15 years of experience in website development and hosting, Mark was previously a co-founder and Senior Developer at Summersault, a website development firm. Mark has also developed and deployed many small self-hosted sites and managed growing complex cloud-hosting sites.
Kathryn Hagerman Medina
Director of Marketing
Kathryn believes in empowering people and organizations with insights from data. She contributes her extensive experience in public policy, GIS, human resource management, and SaaS strategy to the RideAmigos team. Kathryn is committed to helping organizations discover innovative approaches to meeting their goals for wellness, efficiency, and sustainability.
Victor Fani
Director of Strategic Partnerships
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Matt McKimmy
Director of Support
Bringing 20 years of organizational leadership training and experience, Matt helps keep our whole team and their tools running great. He oversees the RideAmigos Academy, CRM systems, communications tools, contributes to product development, and provides guidance for maintaining a positive, partner success-focused culture. A long-time smart transportation advocate, Matt doesn’t remember the last time he solo-drove to work.
Lee Cholodenko
Director of Product Strategy
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Grant Heger
Director of Technical Services
Situated within the technical team, Grant works on feature scoping and construction while keeping all our clients’ needs in mind. Grant also helps with education efforts by conducting Office Hours webinars on the latest and greatest features of the RideAmigos platform.
Daniel Paauwe
Director of Finance
Daniel’s passion for value creation is instrumental in guiding RideAmigos towards realizing its vision. He focuses on giving the team the support they need to complete their mission. With experience helping fast-growing organizations, Daniel’s leadership is ensuring we scale efficiently.
Ryan Mackey-Paulson
Application Architect
With a deep and abiding love for developing node.js APIs and web components, Ryan embodies our core value of "love what you do" in his role as one of our full-stack engineers. Through his work expanding our API connectivity, he appreciates that we’re not just incentivizing alternative commuting, but creating stronger, more sustainable communities.
Alex Temkin
Customer Success Manager
A Los Angeles native, Alex is all too aware of the problems caused by a car-centric society. He joined RideAmigos to remedy these issues by promoting smarter commutes and taking cars off of the road. As Client Success Manager, Alex works with RideAmigos’ Partners to support their transportation demand management programs and plans.
Rob Ludwig
Senior Systems Engineer
Rob is a backend engineer with a background in building large cloud applications. His job is to to build new features for our API and mobile app, and develop the backend infrastructure. Rob works with clients to make sure they’re using GTFS and all their geodata to their maximum potential.
Karuna Pallavi
DevOps Engineer
After a successful stint as a systems engineer with IBM, Karuna joined the RideAmigos team to help further our mission of transforming transportation through smarter commuter management. Her work on backend processes and site setup improves our ability to serve our partners efficiently and effectively.
Alissa Lioznova
Partner Development Manager
Snow, rain or shine, Alissa grew up in Germany using a bike as her primary mode of transportation. Coming to the United States at the age of 18, the prevalent car culture immediately stood out to her. That’s when she made it her mission to take cars off the road and encourage people to try out alternative modes of transportation, both in her job and private life. As the Partner Development Manager, she educates organizations about RideAmigos and empowers as many institutions as possible to promote smarter commuting.
Christian Briggs
User Experience Engineer
He could have been a pro volleyball player. Seriously. But instead he chose to use his superpowers for the common good. Now Christian’s experience in human-computer Interaction and social technology helps RideAmigos create people-focused solutions to commuter management challenges.
Seth Salinas
Senior Front-End Engineer
Prior to RideAmigos, Seth worked in research compliance, building software that provided risk analysis for research institutions. Now he helps our front-end team improve architecture, integrate test automation, add to core functionality, and build new features that make RideAmigos more powerful and easier to use.
Chance Magno
Full Stack Engineer
Chance‘s background in mobile development helps RideAmigos create next-level technology both in our mobile app and in our cloud platform. He helps out with both frontend and backend feature development and is passionate about being part of a team that’s transforming the way people commute.
Wesley Schlenker
Customer Support Specialist
I’ve always loved multiplayer games, and learning about how the internet can create global communities inspired me to learn how to code when I was in high school. My skills as a developer, along with years of entrepreneurial experience, led me to find my perfect fit as a Customer Service & Success Specialist here at RideAmigos.
Randy Todd
Senior Marketing Specialist
A whiz at inbound marketing strategy and quality content creation, Randy supports all our efforts to spread the word about RideAmigos. Having worked with everyone from small businesses to Fortune 500s across a wide variety of industries, he’s a constant wealth of experience and ideas to improve the visibility of the entire commuter management industry.
Used by thousands of businesses and organizations including municipalities and transit authorities, enterprises and corporations, universities and K-12 schools, nonprofit groups, and transportation management associations. Check out our portfolio to see who in our area or industry is already using RideAmigos and how our platform can serve you.