Praveen Arichandran, Argo’s co-founder and CEO

“Let’s build a future where transit is the ideal way to travel within and across cities.”

A team with experience at the world’s leading mobility and technology companies.

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Senior leadership

  • Praveen Arichandran

    Co-founder, Chairman & CEO

    Praveen joined Tesla as head of growth in 2016 at age 25. Without traditional advertising, he and his team helped transition the company from retail to a referral and online sales model. Before this, he was a member of Facebook’s early international growth team and led the Internet.org product team, whose products connected over 100M people to the Internet. He has advised several companies, including TikTok and Athena, and was recognized on Forbes’ 2019 30 Under 30 list.

  • Qamar Qureshi

    Co-founder & Chief Business Officer

    Qamar is a CPA and MBA who most recently served as President and Chief Financial Officer at Knowledgehook. As President of the Americas and a board member at University College London’s Tech Labs, he oversees accelerators and early-stage companies across the continent. He has led digital transformation for Canada’s largest financial institutions, held senior roles at Sun Life Financial and IBM, raised millions in financing and secured precedent-setting sales contracts, featured in TechCrunch, Entrepreneur and Forbes.

  • Holly Lim

    Chief Financial Officer

    Holly served as CFO of Google’s Sidewalk Labs sustainability initiative and, before that, as CFO of SoundCloud and TuneIn. She brings deep experience in finance, operations and governance.

  • Jenna Bendayan

    Head of Business Operations

    Jenna brings nearly a decade of strategic leadership delivering large-scale infrastructure projects and building operational systems that work at scale. Most recently Head of Priority Initiatives in the Office of the Premier of Ontario, she led the execution of critical infrastructure and operational reforms. In 2023, iPolitics named her one of Queen’s Park’s five most influential government staffers. As Chief of Staff to the President of the Treasury Board, she managed fiscal planning, digital transformation and procurement across the largest sub-sovereign spending portfolio in the country.

  • Colette Bridgman

    Director

    Colette has taken some of the world’s leading mobility companies from their earliest days to clear market dominance. One of Tesla’s earliest hires, she led global marketing through every phase of the business from 2004 to 2017. After Tesla, she created the marketing function at self-driving leader Aurora, taking the company public in 2021.

  • Daniel Habashi

    Director

    Daniel brings deep experience in operations, technology and governance. He is Chief Customer Officer at SSENSE and previously served on the board of Aritzia. Before that he led operations in North America and over 30 other countries as a member of TikTok’s senior management team, after senior leadership roles at Facebook, Instagram, Soho House and Microsoft.

Senior team

  • Yulin Chen

    Engineering

    Former senior engineer at Uber’s Autonomous Technology Group and Google, and a founding engineer at Connectly.

  • Jeffrey Chen

    Engineering

    Former senior engineer at TikTok, where he led development across several AI content and augmented reality features, and at LinkedIn, where he helped re-architect the mobile app. Founder and CTO of SayHomee.

  • Thanu Chandrarajah

    Engineering

    One of the lead engineers on Zynga’s poker products, driving critical technology and growth initiatives. More recently a senior engineer at Coursera.

  • Tobi Balogun

    Design

    A design leader who spent the past decade in Europe leading teams and shaping experiences for global brands including Booking.com and adidas.

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