Sydney-headquartered electrical bike supplier Zoomo has introduced in some consulting nous with the senior appointments of ex-MBBs Jules Flynn as Chief Operating Officer and Michelle Crocker as Vice President of People & Culture.
Graduating with a mechanical engineering diploma from the University of Melbourne, Jules Flynn kicked off his skilled profession with a two-year stint as an analyst with McKinsey & Company in Melbourne to 2003, earlier than later serving for 2 and a half years as an engagement supervisor within the administration consultancy’s Brussels workplace.
While on the world technique consulting agency, Flynn targeted on the infrastructure, transport and logistics sector.
Since then, he has held various senior city transport positions, becoming a member of New York’s metropolitan Transport Authority from McKinsey in 2010, the place he served as a senior director for strategic initiatives and Chief Recovery and Resilience Officer for subways over the course of 5 years. Most just lately, he was the Head of Operations for Lyft bikes and scooters in New York, and additionally earlier served as General Manager for Citi Bike.
Michelle Crocker joins Zoomo as its inaugural Vice President of People and Culture after greater than 4 years with Bain & Company in Sydney, serving as a supervisor on the consultancy for the reason that starting of final 12 months. Previously, she spent 4 years as a mergers & acquisitions lawyer at King & Wood Mallesons, having first joined the agency in 2012 as an insolvency paralegal whereas finishing a regulation & arts diploma with the University of Queensland.
“I’m so excited to be joining Zoomo at a time of significant growth,” Crocker commented. “People are at the heart of Zoomo’s e-bike products. It’s people that are re-imagining what bikes can do and it’s people choosing to ride them or rely on them for last-mile deliveries. I look forward to bringing my experience in organisational design and future of work strategy, to help grow Zoomo’s ambitious people mission.”
During her time at Bain, which she crossed to as a senior affiliate guide in early 2018, Crocker suggested on strategic and organisational issues for main corporates throughout a broad vary of industries, together with monetary companies, healthcare, industrials, telcoms and non-public fairness, with a give attention to organisational redesign, efficiency enchancment, full potential transformations, technique, and outcomes supply.
In addition to Flynn and Crocker, Zoomo has named ex-Uber product lead Alan Wells as Vice President of Product.
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“Our new hires bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and importantly passion to Zoomo, and will each be supporting a specific need for the business’ continued global growth,” mentioned co-founder Michael Johnson, who additionally served at Bain for 4 years alongside fellow co-founder and CEO Mina Nada. “They also offer an opportunity for me to partner with our existing customers to transition billions of urban miles to light electric vehicles.”
It’s additionally not the primary time the pair have turned to former administration consultants to assist their growth agenda since founding the corporate in 2017.
Growth Product Manager Ishaan Arya joined from BCG Digital Ventures on the finish of final 12 months, whereas one other current arrival, Global Head of Talent Sacha Koffman, frolicked at Oliver Wyman and Kearney, as did US head of technique & planning Timothy Holmes and A/NZ Head of Operations & Growth Siddharth Shankar.