PALO ALTO, Calif. – Jennifer Haroon, Chief Operating Officer at Nauto has been named a 2019 Automotive News Rising Star. Jennifer and her co-honorees are featured in a special section in the April 1 issue of Automotive News.
The Rising Stars: Automakers and Suppliers program honors U.S.-based auto executives, under the age of 45, on the manufacturing and supply side of the auto industry who have the talent and dedication necessary to become industry leaders of tomorrow. Automotive News has published the list of the industry’s up and comers annually since 2014.
This year’s honorees come from 18 companies and10 disciplines — from executive management to supply chain, engineering and human resources.
Jennifer Haroon is Chief Operating Officer at Nauto, an AI-technology company that is improving driver and fleet safety today and the autonomous fleets of tomorrow. Prior to Nauto, Jennifer was the Head of Business Operations for Waymo (formerly the Google Self-driving Car Project), focusing on strategy and business development. She also spent six years at Google working on a variety of projects. During that time, she developed and launched CSquared, a wholesale metro fiber optic network business in Sub-Saharan Africa. She also worked on many of Google’s early health-related initiatives including Google Flu Trends and the Flu Vaccine Finder.
Prior to Google, Jennifer was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group and an Equity Research Associate at Thomas Weisel Partners. She received her B.S. from Duke University and her MBA from US Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
“The Rising Stars program recognizes automotive executives in middle and upper management who are likely to grow in influence and prominence,” said Jason Stein, publisher of Automotive News. The best predictor of big personal success is enormous responsibility at a young age. When high-potential talent is identified and rewarded early, the organization wins.”
The 2019 class of Automotive News Rising Stars emerged from a nomination and selection process in cooperation with KPMG. Complete profiles of all 23 Rising Stars are available at www.autonews.com/risingstars.
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About Nauto
Nauto® is the only real-time AI-powered Driver and Fleet Safety Platform able to help predict, prevent, and reduce high-risk events in the mobility ecosystem. By analyzing billions of data points from over 650 million AI-analyzed video miles, Nauto’s machine learning algorithms continuously improve and help to impact driver behavior before events happen, not after. Nauto has enabled the largest commercial fleets in the world to avoid more than 25,000 collisions, resulting in nearly $180 million in savings.
Nauto is located in North America, Japan, and Europe. Learn more at nauto.com or on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Nauto, Nauto Coach, and Nauto Prevent are registered trademarks of Nauto, Inc. and its subsidiaries worldwide.
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