Management Team
Timothy J. Ericson
CEO and Co-Founder
Timothy brings to the CityRyde team years of business and technology expertise as well as a passion for bicycles. Timothy graduated Drexel University with a Business Administration degree with a concentration in Legal Studies. Outside of CityRyde, Timothy enjoys working with other entrepreneurs to make the world a better place. Timothy also enjoys skiing, traveling, cooking, new technologies as well as volunteering his time with numerous causes. Timothy also studied at the Imperial College in London and was first exposed to bike sharing on a visit to Paris. Timothy found the system to be useful and efficient, and wondered why such a system had not yet made it to the U.S. After discussing the concept of bringing bike sharing to the United States with his business partners, they both agreed not only that it was a great idea, but it was something that they would find useful in their daily lives. Timothy spent the next 2 years traveling to cities such as Paris, Lyon, Berlin, Munich, Stockholm, Barcelona, Dublin, London, Washington DC, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Rome and others to talk with representatives about their bike sharing systems or plans to implement a bike sharing system. As a well seasoned traveler, Timothy has had first hand experiences with virtually all of the major bicycle sharing systems worldwide allowing him to truly understand each system’s strengths and weaknesses which has positioned CityRyde as the industry experts in bike sharing. Timothy has represented CityRyde in Entrepreneur Magazine, US News and World Reports, Fast Company and many local news outlets.
E-mail: tim@cityryde.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/tjericson
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tjericson
Jason H.S. Meinzer
COO and Co-Founder
Jason loves to make the world a smaller place with the connections he has made through his international travels in well over three-hundred cities within more than twenty different countries throughout the world. Jason’s first study abroad experience was a business-oriented six-month Semester at Sea voyage from Cuba to Japan involving visits to 8 other countries with course-specific fieldwork related to environmental climate change. This eye-opening voyage of a lifetime was complimented by a subsequent 3-month study abroad experience at the Imperial College in London where he met Timothy in 2007. Supplementing his global network are the work experiences he has held within an array of technological industries domestically in the States; including but not limited to a Database Administrator position at Unisys Corp. and a Software Business Analyst position at Merck & Co., Inc. In addition to these tenure’s Jason has worked for the government to expand local businesses globally during his role within the Philadelphia Department of Commerce. Jason’s extensive software development experience coupled with his international environmental acumen enables CityRyde to develop their revolutionary software application code named Oyster designed to sit on top of the existing applications being used by bike share operators. Jason graduated Summa Cum Laude from Drexel University and holds a B.S.B.A. with a dual-concentration in Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurship. Aside from the thrills of growing CityRyde, Jason enjoys an active lifestyle alongside his beloved family and friends by participating in sports, exercise and social gatherings.
E-mail: jason@cityryde.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jhsmeinzer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhsmeinzer
Urban Planning
Max Hepp-Buchanan
Urban Policy and Planning Specialist
Max Hepp-Buchanan is a recent graduate of the University of Washington, receiving a Master of Urban Planning degree from the College of Built Environments and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Evans School of Public Affairs. Max spent much of his three years at UW studying alternative and sustainable transportation policy and planning, with a personal preference towards non-motorized/active modes of travel. In 2009, Max received a fellowship to study bike-share programs in Europe and North America before writing his Master’s thesis on successful planning, implementation, and operation strategies for city-wide bike-sharing. Max has worked on bike-share projects for King County Metro, as well as the Seattle Department of Transportation. He also serves as Secretary and is an active member of the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board where he helps advise City staff and elected officials on all matters related to bicycling in Seattle.
E-mail: max@cityryde.com
Information Technology
Justin Lee
Software Engineer
Justin is a very ambitious web software engineer who specializes in scalability, usability and optimization of enterprise web applications. Alongside a Computer Science degree from Drexel University, he also has over 4 years of web development experience both domestically and internationally (London, England). While working in London, Justin had the luxury of visiting 7 different contries which provided for an invaluable trip full of many life lessons along the way. When he’s not staring at a monitor, Justin enjoys traveling, playing the guitar, and anything having to do with sports.
E-mail: Justin@cityryde.com
Bryan Armalavage
UI Engineer
Bryan Armalavage, originally from Naples, Florida, brings over 8 years of web design and development to the table. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Florida State University, he focused his discipline to user interaction and user interface engineering, analyzing information seeking behaviors in order to design more effective means of bringing people to their information needs. Being involved in various forms of business from the time he was very young, he carries many of these valuable experiences with him and uses them as a foundation in his quest to design compelling, cutting-edge software that satisfies both the end-user and client. Being from Florida, Bryan loves spending time at the beach with family and friends, being outside and exercising in general, watching sports (Go Noles!), and produces electronic music when he’s able to get some free time.
E-mail: Bryan@cityryde.com
Marketing and Business Development
Ramona Goveas
Business Development Associate
Ramona is currently a Drexel student majoring in Business administration with a dual concentration of Marketing and Finance. She transferred from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is currently an intern at CityRyde. Ramona is a passionate and diligent worker who is curious to learn and be a perfectionist at whatever she does. She enjoys her work with full enthusiasm and a positive attitude. Ramona is very excited to do her internship for CityRyde and hopes to be a future employee at CityRyde.
E-mail: ramona@cityryde.com
Andrew DiMatteo
Carbon Engineer Associate
Andrew is a sophomore student at Drexel University majoring in biomedical engineering. He is currently considering minoring in business. He is thoroughly interested in the marketing and carbon credit aspect of CityRyde. He understands how important the transportation industry is to reducing carbon emissions. On his free time he enjoys soccer, sailing, xbox 360, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and the outdoors.
E-mail: andrew@cityryde.com
Partnerships and Collaborations
Benoît Beroud (Paris, France)
Business Developer Agent
Benoît Beroud is a freelance consultant. He is specialized on sustainable mobilities, particularly walking and cycling. He has a research master transports economics background, enhanced by a social approach of the modal choice.
He is the first to make a large European benchmark on public bicycles in 2006 – 2007. In facts, he analyzes 7 public bicycles services in 10 European cities. Then, he participates to the European projects NICHES (new seamless mobility services) and OBIS (Optimising bike sharing in European cities). He co-presenting the French national expert meeting of OBIS with EFFIA MTI. Benoît has lived in and biked daily in Lyon and Paris, the two pioneer cities to implement public bicycle on large scale.
For more: www.bb-mobilit.com
E-mail : benoit.beroud@bb-mobilit.com
Koken Kircalioglu (Turkey)
Turkey Sales Representative
Young and driven professional , holding a valuable combination of personal, academic and professional success, completed an MBA in a top 100 (FT) Business School. He has completed his final group thesis on bike sharing programs and was elected as the winner among the MBA.
