Our management team includes executives with years of experience and contacts in the transportation industry, the fleet management business, and the Silicon Valley community, as well as technical specialists with strong academic backgrounds (including PhDs in computer science, statistics, and logic), extensive hands-on knowledge of transportation routing software and geographic information systems (GIS), and decades of experience at leading technology organizations such as Xerox PARC (the famed research center), Oracle Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Inc., and several Silicon Valley start-up companies, including Webvan.

The following members of our management team may be contacted by prospective customers, partners, or other parties interested in doing business with SpeedGauge:

Jonathan Hubbard, CEO and Co-Founder
Jonathan Hubbard is a proven serial entrepreneur and has been an innovator in Silicon Valley for over ten years. In 1995, Jonathan founded Hobby Markets Online, an online auction company that he sold to InfoSpace in 2000. Subsequently, Jonathan served as CEO of MetaExchange, a bid-ask commodity exchange platform, which he sold to AVROKO in 2001. Prior to coming to Silicon Valley, Jonathan spent four years at Euro Disneyland in Paris where he worked as an industrial engineer and as Manager of Transportation. Jonathan received an MBA from Harvard Business School (1995) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University (1989). He has been the recipient of several awards including the well-respected “Business on the Internet Award” for Best Site for Business-to-Consumer Commerce from Internet Week (1997).

Robert Reid, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder
Bob is a seasoned sales executive with more than 25 years of Silicon Valley experience. Bob and SpeedGauge CEO Jonathan Hubbard worked together at MetaExchange. Prior to that, Bob was Executive Vice President of Pro Associates, Senior Vice President for Oki Semiconductor, Director of Worldwide Computer Account Sales for AMD, and Industry Sales Manager (Computer Business) for Philips Semiconductor/Signetics. Bob attended California State University at Fullerton.

Christopher Kantarjiev, CTO and Co-Founder
Chris has balanced his career between the research (DEC Western Research Lab, Xerox PARC) and product worlds (Silicon Graphics, Webvan, Oracle, Unimobile). He has found himself on the leading edge of the technology curve more times than he would care to remember. He has been responsible, at times, for the first in-host Internet packet gateway, the fastest TCP-connected PostScript printer, the first medium scale radio-based wireless network of hand-held and lap-held computers, the world’s biggest and fastest network-delivered QuickTime(tm) files, and Webvan’s award winning delivery scheduling and management system.

Chris received a B.S. in Physics from Xavier University and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Purdue University, where his research was into distributed file systems.