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mytaxi announces new chief executive officer
09.
February 2018
Hamburg
Press Contact for this Press Release (1)
Florian Otto
Manager Global Corporate Communications Financial Services
florian.otto@daimler.com
Tel: +49 711 2574-5868
Fax: +49 (0) 711 2574-8211
Marc Berg joining as new CEO mytaxi has experienced tremendous growth (>300%) over the last 12 months Andrew Pinnington decides to step down as CEO after successful integration and expansion Pinnington will remain on board to ensure smooth transition to new leadership February 8, 2018, Hamburg: mytaxi announced today that Marc Berg will join as the new CEO, succeeding Andrew Pinnington with effect from April 16 this year.
mytaxi has seen tremendous growth over the past 18 months. In 2017 alone, mytaxi provided 75 million trips (+337%) and increased its active passengers to more than 11 million (+194%). During Pinnington’s tenure, the company grew from a local player in Germany to the European leader in ride hailing services through strategic acquisitions and dynamic growth.
Pinnington decided to step down as CEO after successfully merging Hailo, Clever Taxi and Beat into the mytaxi business, while simultaneously scaling the existing operations. Pinnington will remain in the business to ensure a smooth transition to his successor, Marc Berg.
Berg is currently the CEO, DACH of Klarna Group the leading provider of secured online payment services in Europe. He has held this position since 2016 and during his tenure, the company has seen dynamic growth in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region for which he is responsible. He was also responsible for executing strategic acquisitions while successfully building out the DACH organization. In addition to his banking and e-commerce background, Berg has held various senior leadership positions in other digital and fast-growing companies.
Stephan Unger, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Daimler Financial Services Board Member: “I am happy to have found an experienced strategist and digital executive in Marc. I am confident that Marc will further build on the enormous growth the company has seen over the past year and to further shape the organization to become a global player in the mobility space.
At the same time, I sincerely thank Andrew for growing mytaxi into Europe’s largest ride hailing app and for his leadership as we merged several acquisitions into the mytaxi family. We respect Andrew’s decision and are grateful for his ongoing support as the leadership transitions to Marc at this exciting stage of the company’s development.”
Including Beat and Clever Taxi, mytaxi currently operates in 70 cities in Europe and South America and has more than 120,000 registered drivers. In 2018, it is focused on continuing its growth strategy in relation to cities, customers and drivers. mytaxi is a part of Daimler Mobility Services which is strategically focused on dynamic growth and creating a customer-centric, broad mobility eco-system.
About mytaxi: mytaxi was founded in June 2009 and was the world’s first taxi app that established a direct connection between a passenger and a taxi driver. With over 10 million downloads and 120,000 registered taxi drivers, mytaxi is the leading taxi e-hailing app in Europe.
Since September 2014, mytaxi is part of the Daimler Mobility Services GmbH (part of the Daimler Group). In July 2016, mytaxi announced the merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland, an important step to become the leading taxi e-hailing app in Europe. In February 2017, mytaxi announced the acquisition of Beat (previously Taxibeat), the leading taxi app in Greece, available also in Peru and Chile. In June 2017, mytaxi announced the acquisition of Clever Taxi, the leading taxi app in Romania.
With more than 600 employees in the whole entity, mytaxi spans across UK, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Poland, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Sweden as well as Greece, Peru and Chile (with Beat) and Romania (with Clever Taxi). In total, it is available in over 70 cities of eleven European and two South American Countries. More information is available at: http://www.mytaxi.com/
Media Contact Dennis Heinert, Head of Communications at mytaxi
email: d.heinert@mytaxi.com
phone: +49 40 306068928
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