Why cities need reliable transit

Cities need reliable transit

Every year, inefficiencies in transportation take a staggering toll on cities:

One billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, a widening economic divide, and $160 billion in lost productivity in the US alone.

Swiftly delivers reliability

Swiftly is a transit reliability platform to keep public transportation a fast, frequent, and attractive alternative to the private vehicle.

Swiftly stats

Passenger trips
per year

180+

Agencies using Swiftly

7,000+

Transit professionals using Swiftly

Swiftly is a transit reliability platform to keep public transportation a fast, frequent, and attractive alternative to the private vehicle.

Swiftly Stats

Passenger trips per year

180+

Agencies using Swiftly

7k+

Transit professionals using Swiftly

Swiftly Stats

Passenger trips
per year

180+

Agencies using Swiftly

7k+

Transit professionals using Swiftly

Meet the team

Our leadership team

Jonny Simkin

CEO/Co-Founder

Jonny Simkin is the Co-founder and CEO of Swiftly. Prior to founding Swiftly, Jonny was the Director of Product at Rafter Inc., where he helped 3 million students save over $700 million on college textbooks.

Michael Smith

CIO/Co-Founder

Mike co-founded Swiftly to build the next generation of passenger information systems and big data analytics for transit agencies. He's a former GM & CTO of NextBus, and co-founded Walk SF.

Will Dayton

CTO/Co-Founder

Will co-founded Swiftly to improve urban mobility with software. Before Swiftly, Will was a Lead Platform Engineer at Thismoment, Inc., as well an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley Campus.

Meredith Bordoni

Chief Product Officer

Meredith, former Head of Product at WordPress.com, joined Swiftly to improve transit at scale with a brilliant team. Meredith delights in helping people achieve their goals with lovable, useful, performant software.

Natalie Fedie

Chief Customer Officer

Natalie is a recognized Customer Success executive with experience in both the Public and Private sectors. Natalie’s main goal is to enable Swiftly customers to achieve their missions of improving public transit throughout the world.

Rob Gaffney

Chief Financial Officer

Rob joined Swiftly to help build a great scalable company as it moves into its next phase of growth. Prior to joining Swiftly he was CFO or finance leader of both public and emerging growth companies.

Annie Lin

Chief People Officer

Annie has over a decade of leadership experience in People/Talent and Operations. She was most recently the VP of People at Lever. She loves building great workplaces that drive both team and business success.

Ritesh Warade

General Manager, Transit

Ritesh has over 16 years of transit data experience, having worked with almost every major agency in North America. His past roles centered on executing and providing strategic advice for transit technology projects related to data systems and passenger information.

Jim Shedlick

VP, Engineering

Jim has extensive experience designing and deploying reliable, scalable, cloud-native production systems at companies large and small. At Swiftly, he combines that experience with a passion for building great teams that leverage technology to deliver impactful products to customers.