YSE Alumni Career Panel: The State of the Global Micromobility Industry (Virtual)

Join CPD, Jessica Bediako, MEM ’22, and YSE and SOM alumni Louis Pappas, Marisa Rodriguez-McGill, Krysia Solheim, and Matt Yau for a virtual panel discussion on trends, predictions, and innovations in the global micromobility industry. Micromobility refers to a range of small, lightweight, low-speed vehicles, such as bikes, e-bikes, cargo bikes, and e-scooters, that are an increasingly popular urban transportation choice for short distances, making first and last-mile connections, and disrupting the single-occupancy vehicle.

REGISTRATION (Email isabella.duenas@yale.edu if you can’t access the registration link). 

Moderator:

Jessica Bediako, MEM ‘22, spent this summer working with Green Business Certification International and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Projects included WBCSD’s Mobility Decarbonization and Commuting Behavioral Change and the development of the US Green Building Council’s RELi Certification Rating System. At YSE Jessica is focusing on Corporate Sustainability and Resiliency Management. She is a Title IX Fellow at Yale University, Student Interest Group leader and a Mentor for The Earth Prize. Jessica works with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment as a Writer for the Conservation Finance Network and Research Assistant for the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy online certification program.

Panelists:

Louis Pappas, MBA ‘16, is a Co-founder and Principal at Electric Avenue, a Brooklyn-based mobility strategy firm focused on accelerating the uptake of two and three-wheeled light electric vehicles. Electric Avenue supports a range of innovative companies, NGOs, and public sector partners committed to decarbonizing urban transport, with a specialty in helping startups roll out new products that inspire citizens and public officials. Louis served for 5 years in the Obama-Biden White House before earning his MBA at the Yale School of Management. Prior to founding Electric Avenue, he led policy and public-private partnerships at mobility companies Bird, Via, and Uber.

Marisa Rodriguez-McGill, MEM ‘17, leads Public Policy and Government Relations in the Southeastern US for Lyft’s Transit, Bike, and Scooter team. She has been working in transportation planning and urban design for her 10+ year career across local and federal government and nonprofits, spending the last four years launching bike and scooter systems for private operators. She graduated from Yale School of the Environment in 2017 and is based in Washington D.C.

Krysia Solheim, MEM ‘15, is the Managing Director for nextbike UK, the UK subsidiary of nextbike GmbH, a German bike share company that operates in over 300 cities globally. Previous to nextbike, she was a sustainability consultant for the City of New Haven Engineering Department and Transportation, Traffic and Parking Department. She earned her MEM from YSE in 2015 and her BS in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona in 2011. 

Matt Yau, MEM ‘18, joined Lyft in 2020 to develop Lyft’s hardware sustainability strategy, including influencing sustainable hardware design. Matt represents Lyft on the People for Bikes sustainability working group. Matt has over 12 years of experience in sustainability, specifically in greenhouse gas management and product sustainability. Prior to Lyft, Matt Led Cisco’s circular economy program for product design, including introducing closed loop materials in hardware products. Matt is a registered Professional Engineer and Lead GHG verifier in California. He holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale School of the Environment and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical &Environmental Engineering from the University of Southern California.