May Mobility

Alisyn Malek spent her early career at General Motors, first as an automotive engineer leading a global team developing advanced charging technology for the Spark and Bolt EV programs, then as an investment manager at GM Ventures, where she led the automaker's investments in the autonomous space — including the early negotiations with Cruise — before heading GM's innovation pipeline. Smithsonian named her a top ten female innovator to watch in 2018. In 2017 she co-founded May Mobility with Edwin Olson and Steve Vozar, serving as COO, where she ran operations and led fundraising for the autonomous shuttle startup. She left May Mobility in early 2020 and in July 2020 became executive director of the Coalition for Reimagined Mobility, a policy-focused transportation group. She has since founded Middle Third, a boutique mobility consultancy she leads as CEO, and authored the book *Intersection: Reimagining the Future of Mobility Across Traditional Boundaries*.

Steve Vozar earned his PhD at the University of Michigan — Edwin Olson sat on his committee — and was named a Human-Robot Interaction Pioneer in 2012 for his doctoral work on tele-robotic mobile manipulation. His earlier career included developing tele-robotic satellite-servicing technology with NASA at Johns Hopkins University and co-founding Absolute Nano, a university spin-off building instruments for nanomaterials research that won a 2009 R&D 100 Award. As a research fellow with Michigan's APRIL and PeRL labs he developed robotic systems for Ford's next-generation autonomous vehicle program and DARPA's Squad X Core Technologies program. In 2017 he co-founded May Mobility with Olson and Alisyn Malek, serving as CTO and leading the technology team that deployed the first commercial fleet of self-driving shuttles in the United States, with responsibility spanning product, hardware, software, autonomy, and vehicle production. He later departed May Mobility and is now a technical lead manager for fallbacks and reliability at Waymo.