Wunder Mobility Podcast

Sascha Mayer, CEO of MOIA, joins the Wunder Mobility Podcast to discuss how MOIA is redefining urban mobility with shared, electric, and autonomous solutions. As a Volkswagen-backed company, MOIA aims to bridge the gap between public transport and private car ownership, offering sustainable and efficient alternatives for city travel. In this episode, Sascha shares insights on user adoption, collab...

René Braun is the CEO and co-founder of RYDES and before embarking on the journey which became RYDES , he spent what felt like his whole life working in the mobility space, always having looking at it from different angles. He first worked strategically for Bombardier Transportation, the company's rail branch, for several years, then joining the Lufthansa Innovation Hub. There, as an outdoor enthu...

Harry discovered his passion for shared mobility whilst working at Fifteen, the shared bike manufacturer. He now leads content efforts at Fluctuo, and is responsible for producing the most exhaustive and widely-read report on shared mobility: the European Shared Mobility Index.

Alexander Kirn, CEO of INVERS, has 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, kick-starting and running high-growth software companies. After the sale of his first company, which he founded at the age of 14, he became an investment professional at Summit Partners, focusing on the expansion of tech companies in growth markets. In 2009, he founded Fleet Technology, a holding company that brings tog...

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 h...

Augustin is a well-known shared mobility expert with passion for micro mobility, mobility on-demand service and public private partnerships.

Sam studied Finance and Music before he started his career at eBay. He lived in Central America where he led a project funded by the Mastercard Foundation to launch innovative financial products for youth. When he returned to California Sam and Gunnar met and ultimately decided to launch the forerunner of Wunder Mobility. Today Sam is Managing partner at MobilityFund.

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 overvie...

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...

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 elaboratin...

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 abou...

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 i...

Raymon, 28, was born and raised in the Netherlands. Today he is CEO of one of Europe's fastest-growing shared mobility operators. While he made his first experience in scooter-sharing with German scooter manufacturer Emco, in 2019 he decided together with Donny van den Oever and Doeke Boersma to start GO Sharing with 168 mopeds in Eindhoven. Since then they have multiplied their fleet size several...

Thomas is an entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of electric mobility with more than 20 years of experience in this field. After years in Hong Kong and a successful exit from e-max that was acquired by Vmoto, Thomas founded Govecs in 2009. Today, Govecs has a 10.5% market share in the fragmented shared electric moped market, making it the fourth-largest manufacturer in the world and the largest...

Christian began his entrepreneurial career in his teenage years when he founded and ran a successful web design agency. In 2007, he co-founded Jimdo, which went on to become one of the world’s leading DIY website builders. After stepping back from daily operations at Jimdo, he founded Dance, the premium e-bike subscription provider, with SoundCloud founders Quidenus-Wahlforss and Ljung. We spoke t...

Silvia joined FREE NOW in 2020 to support the strategic transition from a pure ride-hailing provider to the leading Mobility-as-a-Service platform in Europe. In her role, she is responsible for integrating mobility operators into the FREE NOW platforms to achieve the goal of comprehensive multimodality. With her, we talked about the conscious decision to become a multimodal platform: - What’s behi...

Nico is nothing less than a home-grown SIXT veteran. He started his career back in 2004 as a trainee and steered the SIXT core business of car rental with the branch network as Operations and Business Development Manager before he shaped free-floating car sharing as Co-CEO at DRIVE NOW. Since 2018, Nico has served as Divisional Director Mobility Operations and was thus responsible for the digitali...

Oliver Mackprang is a native Canadian who has lived in Berlin for 15 years. In 2012, he founded the carsharing aggregator company CarJump which was sold to PSA in 2016 and where the app was subsequently renamed in free2move. He has previously worked for the management consulting firm KEARNEY as well as the ridepooling provider MOIA before joining MILES in 2019. We spoke to Oliver about how MILES d...

After having built up the career platform squeaker.net, Jonas is leading for the last ten years large-scale digital strategy and transformation projects in the automotive, mobility and TMT sectors at Strategy&, part of the PwC network. He focuses on digital innovation, data-driven business models, ecosystem partner management and corporate venturing. We explored with Jonas the question of how larg...

Detlef Müller is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. He strongly believes that the federal government needs to invest money in public transportation if it wants to overcome the status quo and reach the climate goals of the Parisian Climate Agreement. In this episode, he explains the role he sees public transport a...

Daniela Kluckert is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and serves as deputy chairwoman of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Daniela is committed to ensuring that all road users have equal rights and that decisions about the future are made in a non-ideological way. In this episode, she tells us how she envisions multimodal transport smart connections between dif...

Since 2017, Stefan Gelbhaar has been a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) as the spokesperson for urban mobility and cycling. Since 2020, he is the spokesperson for transport policy for the Green Party. We spoke to him about the three most important transport policy cornerstones of the Greens’ election program: a. tackling the climate crisis by de-carbonizing the transport sector b. i...

At just 32 years old, Matteo founded Estrima with the vision to improve the quality of mobility in the city, thanks to a vehicle designed not only for private use but for hiring and sharing as well. He takes us onto the journey of his company, explains the advantages of a covered LEV and why they designed a new type of vehicle including a peer-to-peer solution.

Valerian and his emmy sharing co-founder Alexander pioneered e-moped sharing in Germany in 2015, at a time when no one was really about it. (The only other vehicle-sharing solution on the market was Car2Go.) What started as an idea conceived at a barbecue with friends turned into Germany’s leading moped-sharing company with immediately recognizable red-orange vehicles. In this special episode, Val...