Otonomo Appoints Fred Kohout as Chief Marketing Officer
13 January 2022 - 12:30AM
Otonomo Technologies Ltd. (Otonomo), (Nasdaq: OTMO), a leading
mobility intelligence provider, today announced the appointment of
Fred Kohout as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Bringing more than
three decades of sales and marketing experience to Otonomo, Kohout
will be charged with scaling Otonomo’s brand to demand engine to
capitalize on the immense market opportunity represented by
connected vehicle data and mobility intelligence.
Mr. Kohout joins a growing executive team at Otonomo, including
recently appointed leaders Doron Simon, Executive Vice President of
Corporate Development and Strategy, Anders Truelsen, Chief Revenue
Officer, and Amit Hammer, EVP Operations. Kohout, Simon, Truelsen,
Hammer and Matan Tessler, Executive Vice President Products, will
partner to develop and execute Otonomo’s go-to-market strategy
across all geographies and segments.
Kohout has worked in the technology sector for more than three
decades during which time he has served as the Chief Marketing
Officer of Cray, Inc., UC4 and Tagsys RFID. Kohout also held senior
roles across marketing and sales at Sun Microsystems, EMC and, most
recently, HPE where he led both Product and Field Marketing. Kohout
started his career in broadcast journalism at KXLE radio and KVEW
television in Washington state. He is a graduate of Central
Washington State University and currently serves on its Foundation
Board.
Ben Volkow, CEO of Otonomo, commented, “The
timing is right to bring Fred onto the Otonomo team to help
lead us through the next stage of rapid growth. His experience and
skill set make him the best person to strengthen the Otonomo brand
across a very diverse set of industries and geographies worldwide.
I look forward to his contribution and partnership, as we ramp our
go to market activities.”
“Otonomo is at the forefront of market creation with a platform
that will change how we think about mobility,” said Fred
Kohout, newly appointed CMO of Otonomo.
“Otonomo has an exciting story to tell about creating safer driving
experiences, more effective and sustainable transportation
strategies and enabling an ecosystem built around vehicles to
capture the value of data by creating new services.”
About Otonomo:
Otonomo fuels a data ecosystem of OEMs, fleets, and more than
100 service providers spanning the transportation, mobility, and
automotive industries. Our platform securely ingests more than 4
billion data points per day globally from over 40 million vehicles
licensed on the platform and massive amounts of mobility demand
data from multimodal sources, then reshapes and enriches it, to
accelerate time to market for new services that improve the
mobility and transportation experience. We provide deeper
visibility and actionable insights to empower strategic data-driven
decisions – taking the guesswork out of mobility and transportation
planning, deployment and operations. Privacy by design and
neutrality are at the core of our platform, which enables GDPR,
CCPA, and other privacy-regulation-compliant solutions using both
personal and aggregate data. Use cases include emergency services,
mapping, traffic management, EV management, subscription-based
services, micro-mobility, parking, predictive maintenance,
insurance, media, in-vehicle services, and dozens of smart city
solutions.
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ability to identify and realize additional opportunities, and
potential changes and developments in the highly competitive data
marketplace. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You
should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks
and uncertainties described in Otonomo’s prospectus filed with the
SEC on November 3, 2021, and other documents filed by Otonomo from
time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other
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