Sharad is a highly accomplished Senior Executive and Board Advisor with 17 years of success in autonomous vehicles, transit, motor coach charter, bus manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer packaged goods (CPG). In his executive career, Sharad has held leadership positions at FirstGroup; First Transit; Bus and Coach International; Pronaia Capital and Windy City Limousines LLC touching a broad range of transportation modes. He is a strategy-active executive using emerging technology and alternative business models to drive effective innovation, cost savings, market segmentation, partnerships, operations, workforce structures, procurement, sales, revenue generation, and rapid growth. He currently is the Senior Vice President at EasyMile, a leader in autonomous vehicle technology focused on public transit.