Numaan Akram | Source | Founder and CIO at Rally

Numaan Akram is the founder, Chief Investment Officer and director of Rally since 2015. He has over 30 years of experience in technology industries in the United States, with the last decade dedicated to transportation. Under Mr. Akram’s leadership, Rally has facilitated more than 1.7 million rides to date and expanded its offerings to include Lines, Platform, and Network in addition to Events. His dedication and commitment to Rally’s mission to create regional transportation networks that dynamically interconnect cities with robust, safe, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible mobility solutions is evident from the expanded offerings and the increased consumer demand for Rally rideshare since its inception. Notably, in 2017, under his supervision, Rally helped facilitate 80,000 rides to and from Washington D.C. for a single event. Mr. Akram has been instrumental in leading the financing efforts of Rally raising capital from various sources, including venture funds, strategics and angel investors. Prior to founding Rally, from 2007 to 2014, Mr. Akram served as the founder and CEO of Psyography, a technology consulting company. While there, he built international teams to deliver web and mobile based applications for various clients. Prior to Psyography, from 2001 to 2006, Mr. Akram served as Solutions Architect at Univision, a global media company. While at Univision, he helped launch their online division Univision.com, seeing multiple projects from concept through product/service deployment. From 1997 through 1999 Mr. Akram studied Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a result of his professional and academic experiences, Mr. Akram brings extensive breadth, depth and expertise in the digital transformation transportation services combined with a dedication to Rally’s mission to our management team and board of directors.