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Lior Ron
Founder & CEO, Uber Freight
Lior Ron is an experienced entrepreneur and executive leader with a rich background in innovating, building, and scaling transformative products and teams.
He holds an MBA in Business from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an M.SC in Computer Science, and a B.Sc in Computer Science from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Lior Ron has held prominent positions in various organizations, including being the former CEO of Uber Freight at Uber, Co-Founder at Otto, Special Advisor at Google, CVP of Product Management at Motorola Mobility, Google Maps Product lead at Google, Co-founder at Gaitaid, Product Manager at Yahoo! Search, and CTO and Division Manager at Israeli Army Intelligence.
Highlights
Women are the unsung heroes of trucking. Though they make up only a small percentage of the workforce, there’s no denying their impact. Over the past few years, trailblazing women in trucking have helped to transform an industry built primarily for men into a more inclusive space where diversity is welcomed. One of the reasons we founded Uber Freight was to support this transformation and ensure that the industry could break free from outdated norms and embrace a future where opportunities are accessible to everyone, regardless of gender. There’s still a long way to go though. This month, as part of Women’s History Month, we had the opportunity to shine a light on women’s achievements in trucking as well as highlight some of the challenges they still face. The Sisters of the Road is a touring gallery of portrait photography honoring the women of trucking that took off from Richmond, California on March 1st and ended its epic journey at MATS in Louisville over the weekend. The gallery was housed in an Uber Freight #Powerloop trailer. The tour was a celebration of ALL women in trucking and an acknowledgement of their grit, passion and determination to keep our economy moving forward while improving the conditions of the industry for future generations of truck drivers. We were humbled and grateful to be a part of it and will never stop supporting the #sistersoftheroad!
Kudos to the Uber Freight team for continuously pushing toward a more sustainable logistics future. Good overview here:
