About Zimride

What is Zimride?

For too long we have driven our cars with empty seats. Zimride is a simple way to find friends, classmates and coworkers going the same way you are.

Combining social networks and our proprietary route-matching algorithm, we’ve made it easy to share the seats in your car or catch a ride.

Zimride empowers you to create social, sustainable and convenient transportation.

Together we can get anywhere.

Why Zimride?

It's simple! Zimriding is a fun way to get where you need to go. Connect with friends, reduce your carbon footprint and save money.

Why does it work?

By focusing on college, university and corporate communities, we are able to build the critical mass of users necessary to sustain Zimride as a reliable form of transportation. Our approach leverages social trust and hands-on marketing efforts to deliver significant savings for schools and corporations of various sizes and commute profiles.

What’s Zimride got to do with Facebook?

We embrace ridesharing as a social activity and Facebook provides a rich social context to connect and establish trust. Zimriders can view profiles for common networks, interests and friends before deciding to share a ride.

The Zimride community has also greatly benefited from a recent Facebook (fbFund) grant, recognizing Zimride’s useful and innovative integration with their platform.

The Zimride Team

Logan Green, Founder & CEO

Logan has a background in transportation and web development. He created the first car-share program at UC Santa Barbara, and served on the board of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District. His favorite Zimride is Palo Alto to Los Angeles.
Contact: logan [at] zimride.com

John Zimmer, Founder & COO

John is passionate about community driven solutions to environmental problems. John left Lehman Brothers in early 2008, where he spent two years after graduating from Cornell University's Hotel School. He moved from New York City to Palo Alto in July of 2008 by using Zimride to carpool across America. His favorite Zimride is New York to Ithaca.
Contact: john [at] zimride.com

Ashley Bickford, General Manager of University Relations

Feeling frustrated with high gas prices, environmental pollution, and the heavy LA traffic, Ashley decided to join our team in November 2008. Before joining Zimride, Ashley worked at Lehman Brothers for two years. Ashley graduated from USC in 2006 where she studied business and international relations. Her favorite Zimride is Stanford to San Francisco.
Contact: ashley [at] zimride.com

Larry Yang, Lead Developer

Larry is fluent in Chinese and C++. He has extensive experience developing on the web. His favorite Zimride is Palo Alto to Santa Clara for his volleyball scrimmage.

Tessa Petrich, VP Marketing

Tessa has always believed that the best car rides are full ones and she is thrilled to join the Zimride team. After graduating from Harvard, Tessa managed the on-campus pub, then headed back to her native Los Angeles, working in Business Development for Atomic Online. Tessa's favorite Zimride is from Palo Alto to SF or any trip that involves Disney sing alongs.
Contact: tessa [at] zimride.com

Marcus Cohn

Marcus has a background in sustainability, anthropology, and social media. He has and continues to work on a variety of community development and service learning projects in Nicaragua.
Contact: marcus [at] zimride.com

Matt Van Horn

Matt is a super-connecter, helping connect Zimride since day one.
Contact: matt [at] zimride.com

Pablo Alvarez, Chief Algorithm Wizard

Pablo has a background in engineering, business, and project management. He has created the computational algorithms used in Zimride’s software. Pablo is a highly accredited lad holding a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering Management, and an MBA.
Contact: pablo [at] zimride.com

John Siegel

Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, John is working to open up Zimride to a global audience, specifically emerging economies where energy reduction and carpooling have enormous impact, allowing for more dynamic transportation infrastructure and increased avenues to economic growth and social mobility.
Contact: jsiegel [at] zimride.com

Advisory Team

Joe Stump: Joe is the Lead Architect of Digg.com (ranked 23th most trafficked in the US – Compete.com) and serves as Zimride’s technical adviser.
Sean Aggarwal: Sean is a VP of Finance at eBay and advises our team on business operations and strategy.
Catherine Geanuracos: Catherine is the General Manager of Live Earth and advises our team on strategic partnerships.
Michael Taylor: Michael is a Senior Project Manager for the New York City Economic Development Corporation and was part of the inter-agency team that developed the framework for the congestion pricing pilot in Manhattan. He advises our team on transportation policy and strategy.