Robin Chase

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Robin Chase is the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, an innovative car sharing service, and is currently the CEO of GoLoco.org, a venture combining online carpooling and social networking. She is also founder of Meadow Networks, a transportation consulting firm, and maintains a blog Network Musings on the topics of climate change, transportation, and wireless networks.

Chase has been frequently featured in the major media including the Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired, Newsweek and Time magazines, as well as several books on entrepreneurship. She has received many awards, including the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit, Start-up Woman of the Year, Business Week’s top 10 designers, Fast Company's Fast 50 Champions of Innovation, technology and innovation awards from Fortune, CIO, and InfoWorld magazines, and numerous environmental awards from national, state and local governments and organizations.

Chase graduated from Wellesley College and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and won the competitive Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.^[1]

Chase and her husband Roy Russell live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with their three children, the oldest of whom is model Cameron Russell. Roy is the Chief Technology Officer of GoLoco and was Zipcar's founding CTO for 6.5 years.