Georgetown University

California State University-Sacramento

Transportation/Technology/Smart City Executive  -  
Board Member  -  Global Public Speaker

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Transportation technology consulting firm focused on helping cities, companies, universities and governments around the world to advance new forms of mobility – autonomous and electric surface transportation, micro transit and electric urban air mobility services (UAVs).For more information, please see <a href="http://chrisbarkerconsulting.com">chrisbarkerconsulting.com</a>

Chris Barker Consulting - CBC

President - Smart City, Transportation & Technology Consulting

Transportation, Technology & Smart Cities Global Speaker. Other topics covered include: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, The Future of Transportation, Additive Manufacturing and Clean Energy.For more <a href="http://information:https://www.bigspeak.com/speakers/chris-barker">information:https://www.bigspeak.com/speakers/chris-barker</a>

BigSpeak Speakers Bureau

Global Speaker

Board Director responsible for advancing connected transportation projects, policy initiatives and urban mobility education and awareness for the Association for Commuter Transportation.

Association for Commuter Transportation

Board Director/Vice President - Arizona/Nevada/New Mexico Chapter

Focused on providing multi-modal transportation options to cities and communities across North America.  Deployed the first autonomous shuttle services to operate on open roads in the US.  Launched on-demand micro-transit services in multiple US cities.  Lead New Mobility, Government Relations, Communications and Marketing as part of the North America leadership team.Keolis is a global leader in operating passenger transportation systems throughout the world. The company transports 3 billion passengers a year via trains, buses, standard/autonomous shuttles and taxis, while providing transportation fleet management, maintenance, logistics and routing services. Learn more about Keolis at <a href="http://www.keolisnorthamerica.com">www.keolisnorthamerica.com</a>

Keolis Group

Vice President - New Mobility, Communications & Marketing

Provided business and communications consulting support to companies using technology for the advancement and modernization of transportation.  The C3 Group brings a combination of editorial content, leading event programing and focused consulting services to the companies and organizations involved in the global technology and transportation markets. The C3 Group provides timely news and analysis through its C3 Report website/newsletter and the Connected Car Council. C3 events also bring together top thought leaders who are shaping the future of transportation through technology. For more on the C3 Group visit <a href="http://www.cthreegroup.com">www.cthreegroup.com</a>.

C3 Group - Connected Car Council, Conferences, and Consulting

Connected Car/Transportation Technology Consultant

Lead business development and marketing for global public relations firm.  Also lead Waggener Edstrom's (WE) Connected Car team – a global group of communications professionals that support automotive OEMs, tier-1 suppliers and technology companies operating in the automotive market. Launched WE’s Connected Car Forum, which included a series of US technology expo and roundtable events on the future of the connected and autonomous car.

Waggener Edstrom

Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing

Managed global communications and media relations for Honeywell Aerospace headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.  Responsibilities included communications support for Honeywell's global business aviation, space and defense and air traffic management business.  Position included media and analyst relations, crisis communications, integration with government relations, executive counsel and international business and regualtory coordination.

Honeywell Aerospace

Global Director of Communications and External Media Relations

- Managed communications for Cisco’s global public sector business which includes federal, state and local government, defense/security, education and healthcare.* Core work included global and regional public sector and vertical market message development, issues management, public policy support, global product launch support, press/analyst relations, global event development and executive platform development, media training and social media campaign coordination.• Managed a team comprised of both internal reports plus two outside PR agency teams comprised of 10-12 PR professionals.• From April 2008 – September 2010 – managed corporate communications for Cisco’s enterprise vertical market business which included financial services, healthcare, retail and sports and entertainment.Highlights of success:* Education: Convened global education leaders for international forum to discuss the role of technology in transforming K-12 and higher-ed learning.  Forum included press roundtables in 14 countries with more than 40 global education leaders.  More than 100 feature news stories secured.* Healthcare: Grew Cisco’s presence in the healthcare business media by more than 68 percent by securing top-level feature stories on the company’s healthcare transformation work with news outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, BBC, Nikkei, CBS News and PBS News Hour* Sports: Managed the external communications for the roll-out of Cisco Stadium Vision technology at Yankee Stadium, New Meadowlands Stadium and Kauffman Stadium.  Work included press conferences with Cisco CEO John Chambers and New York Yankees Owner Hal Steinbrenner, New York Jets Owner Woody Johnson and New York Giants Owner John Mara

Cisco

Senior Corporate PR Manager - Cisco Global Public Sector Team

- 15 year PR industry veteran responsible for global business development, PR staff recruitment/training, office management, new market segment development, crisis PR consulting, client message development, executive media training, media/analyst relations and internal communications.* Created and managed North American Security Practice - covering IT security, physical security, homeland defense-based security. Launched initial security practice and grew team from 0-20 plus people in less than two years. Managed team of 15-20 PR practitioners across North America plus oversight of an additional 10-15 security focused PR staff in EMEA and APAC. Practice included PR representation of public and private companies as well as work with federal, state and local government.*  Managed crisis communications for Fortune 100 companies through start-up level size firms.   Crisis work included executive level message development/training, incident response drill testing and media spokesperson support.  Crisis work includes support of product recalls, class action software copyright lawsuits, stock delistings, executive indiscretions, employee labor disputes, security breaches and mock-airline crash training.* Led North American business development programs - targeted at growing Fortune 500 client base across multiple industry segments, geographic areas and practice areas for Text 100.

Text 100

Vice President of Public Relations

Managed strategic public relations on behalf of Avaya, Compaq, Expedia, Lucent and Microsoft.Work included message development, product launch support, crisis communications, IPO positioning, media/analyst relations, executive media training and business development.

Shandwick

Senior Account Manager

Served as executive speechwriter and corporate communications manger for the Office of the President.  Provided speechwriting support to six Boeing senior executives including the president of the Commercial Airplane Group.  Also managed corporate crisis communications related to plane incidents, labor deals, plane contracts or employee personnel matters.Served as executive writer for internal and external Boeing publications.  And provided event management support for global aviation conferences and tradeshows.

Christopher Barker