Mapping & Automotive Veterans Join rideOS Advisory Board

I’m pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the rideOS advisory board today, Brian McClendon and Ralf Lenninger.

We are super excited and grateful to have these two industry veterans join the rideOS advisory board. Bridging Silicon Valley tech companies and the automotive industry will be instrumental to the future of mobility and deploying self driving vehicles at scale, and both Brian and Ralf are uniquely positioned to help us with our market expansion.

Brian McClendon has built a career as an entrepreneur and technical leader in geographic information systems (GIS). In 2004, his digital mapping startup, Keyhole, was acquired by Google and became the foundation for Google Earth. During a 10-year tenure at Google, he became the vice president of Google Maps, Earth, and Street View. McClendon joined Uber in 2015 as vice president of Mapping and most recently stepped down to return to his hometown in Kansas to become a research professor at the University of Kansas.

Ralf Lenninger has cultivated deep automotive expertise in the more than forty years he’s worked in the industry. Lenninger joined Siemens Infineon division as a development and application engineer in 1984 and served many roles within automotive technology for the company over the years. He’s since worked at leading automotive firms and continuous to be a prominent voice in the industry.