Wunder Mobility Podcast

Wunder Mobility Podcast

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Wunder Mobility Podcast episodes

  • #43 François Hoehlinger , Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Troopy
    François and Gunnar’s opinions about the upcoming vote on a potential ban on e-scooters in Paris🇫🇷 on 2nd April, How Troopy has grown and where its going, and the importance of dominating your home turf before you can consider yourself to be profitable

    Alumni of EMLYON Business School & Polytechnique in France. François is an entrepreneur and a mobility expert who’s currently the Managing Director of Troopy, one of the European moped sharing companies, based in Paris.

    After a career in Strategy consulting, he became a top manager at Flixbus, developing the B2B business in Europe, then becomes a VP at EasyPark Group.

    And then joined Troopy in 2022 to help the company scale from 6 employees to 150 and , 250 mopeds to 3.000 mopeds by the end of 2023.
    François is strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, being part of working groups at European commission and in other circles, emphasizing this engagement in a book by the name :“Lettre à un jeune manager” published in 2022 (L’Harmattan).

    In 2023, with 4 other influential mobility actors, he also launched the Intermobility network, to create a strong community of founders & experts around tomorrow’s mobility.

    48 min
  • #42 Alexander Kirn , CEO, INVERS
    Predictions for the mobility industry, how INVERS reached profitability, being a provider of car sharing solutions, talks about damage & fraud prevention technology.

    🎙The Wunder Mobility Podcast is back! Get to know more about Alexander Kirn, CEO at @INVERS, and discover his predictions for the future, find out more about INVERS road to profitability, their car sharing solutions, and their damage and fraud prevention technology.

    50 min
  • #41 Patrick Arle , CEO & Founder, MotionTools
    The state of tech, the issue of fraud , reaching profitability in shared mobility, the role AI will play and Autonomy Paris.
    Patrick discovered his passion for the transportation industry early in 2005 when he started his studies of computer science and business management .Then continued his journey by holding several roles at Lufthansa German Airlines, including assistant to the CEO, as well as project- and product manager, working with customers such as United Airlines.
    Before launching MotionTools in 2017, Patrick helped to build up Wunder Mobility, a leading software and hardware provider for sharing mobility operators.
    Today he is the Founder & CEO of MotionTools, the All-in-One Software for logistics services that boosts efficiency and delights customers.
    51 min
  • #40 Augustin Friedel, Shared Mobility Expert

    In this episode of the Wunder Mobility Podcast Gunnar and Augustin talk about:

    • What is shared mobility and where do we stand today?
    • What are the current challenges of shared mobility and how do we overcome them?
    • Augustin is a well-known shared mobility expert with passion for micro mobility, mobility on-demand service and public private partnerships. After launching Uber in Germany, Augustin worked for companies like Blacklane, Rocket Internet and Deutsche Bahn subsidiary ioki. He is currently employed by Volkswagen AG but the views expressed in this interview are his personal ones and do not represent any of Volkswagen’s activities or thoughts.

      52 min
    • #39 Sam Baker, Managing Partner, MobilityFund
      Investing in the new mobility value chain

      MobilityFund's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable mobility by backing the best founders in European mobility start-ups. It invests in disruptive mobility start-ups with ambitious founders from Seed to Series A and onwards. The experienced team includes entrepreneurs from Europe and Silicon Valley who partner with companies as they scale to become global transportation leaders.

      41 min
    • #38 Julien Chamussy, Co-founder & CEO, fluctuo
      A macro overview of the vehicle sharing business in Europe

      Julien Chamussy is the CEO and co-founder of fluctuo, Europe’s aggregator of data on shared mobility services like bike, scooter, moped or car sharing.

      Prior to that, Julien was VP Marketing of Smovengo, the operator of Vélib which is the public bike-sharing service in Paris and the greater area.
      fluctuo sources data from various mobility operators and open source and uses it to provide an overview of the shared mobility industry. Every quarter, they publish the European Shared Mobility Index in which they analyze the development of user numbers or highlight and compare vehicle distribution in different European cities.
      We took the opportunity to dive deeper into the data and get Julien's opinion and best guesses on the vehicle sharing industry.

      fluctuo website: https://fluctuo.com/

      European Shared Mobility Index: https://european-index.fluctuo.com/

      46 min
    • #37 Jennifer Dungs, Global Head of Mobility, EIT InnoEnergy
      The innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe

      Jennifer has spent over 20 years in the automotive industry, including Ford, BMW and Porsche. She contributes regularly to Forbes and is a global speaker on the topic of Future Mobility. Today, as Global Head of Mobility at EIT InnoEnergy, she is responsible for all mobility investments with 30 new seed and Series A investments in the last 2 years.

      How does InnoEnergy support the European mobility value chain?

      How does Jennifer envision Shared Mobility from Europe?
      Why InnoEnergy hasn't invested in popular shared mobility players?
      What are the pressing challenges in micromobility?

      52 min
    • #36 Maya Ben Dror, Practice Manager, Automotive & New Mobility, World Economic Forum
      How the WEF helps shape opinions

      Maya's career is outstanding: she holds a PhD in dynamic transportation policy and technology transition from the Technion and has more than a decade and a half of global work experience in the public, private and third sectors, with a focus on clean technologies and sustainable transport. At WEF, she now leads the Sustainable Automotive and Mobility work.

      We started the conversation by elaborating on the WEF's unique approach to improving the state of the world and dived deep into the topics what they believe are the 3 main issues of the hour:

      1. urban mobility transitions
      2. circularity
      3. automotive ecosystem in a new software era
      4. 47 min
      5. #35 Cory Schmidt, Chief Revenue Officer, Wunder Mobility
        Building brand authority in the shared mobility industry and what role content plays

        Cory is CRO of Wunder Mobility, the international provider of software and hardware for shared mobility services. In his executive leadership role, Cory oversees Wunder Mobility's marketing and sales organization as well as the account management. Over the last one and a half years Cory wrote his first book on brand primacy and how google made companies the kings of content.

        We spoke with him about why building a company's brand is so important and how creating valuable content helps bring organic traffic to the website.

        25 min
      6. #34 Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General, POLIS Network
        How can innovations from industry be aligned with public policy goals?

        Karen was appointed as Secretary General of POLIS in September 2014, after havening been the Network's Research Director. Since then she's leading the European network of cities and regions on urban transport innovation. For over 30 years already, members have been working together to develop and deploy sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the city of today and tomorrow.

        Karen is certain that what was originally the preserve of the public sector, namely the provision of mobility services, is now also increasingly becoming an area in which private players are becoming active. Over the past few years, this has led to cities having to rethink and reinvent their role.
        With her, we explored smart ways to align innovations from industry with public policy goals.

        37 min

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      Welcome to the "Wunder Mobility Podcast". Every two weeks we will provide you with exciting insights around the Future of Mobility. Tune in as we invite thought leaders from the mobility sector to share their vision, products, successes, and setbacks.