Craig Cummings (RideScout)

Name: Craig Cummings (RideScout)
Start: 2015-03-03T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2015-03-03T22:00:00-06:00
Location: Capital Factory (Located in the Austin Centre)

Mar 4, 2015, 1:00 – 4:00 AM

Austin

Craig Cummings is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of RideScout, the “Kayak” of Ground Transportation.  

In-person event

About this event

Craig Cummings is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of RideScout, the “Kayak” of Ground Transportation.  RideScout was acquired by car2go, a Daimler subsidiary, in September 2014.  Since leaving the military in 2009, Craig has co-founded and served as COO of BTS (exit 2011) and co-founded APX Labs (NEA led $10MM Series A in April 2014).  Prior to transitioning to the private sector, Craig spent 17 years in the Army, most of that time as an Intelligence Officer serving in multiple National Security Agency (NSA) assignments and locations.  In 2006-2007, Craig deployed to Afghanistan with the Joint Special Operations Command where he earned the Bronze Star.  During his military career, Craig also served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, NY.  Craig graduated in the top 2% of his West Point class and later earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.  He was the first-ever Truman Scholarship winner from a Service Academy, a U.S.-Italy Young Leader, a former Term Member with the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Board member for several of companies.