Scott Griffith was the chairman and chief executive officer of

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, Inc. from February 2003 until his resignation on March 15, 2013, following the acquisition of Zipcar by Avis Budget Group. As of October 2020, Griffith is the CEO of Ford Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility Businesses at

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. Griffith has a BS in engineering from

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in 1981 and an MBA from the

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in 1990. While Griffith was CEO, Zipcar became the world's largest car-sharing service. In the fall of 2007, Zipcar merged with Flexcar, with Griffith as CEO of the merged company which continued to use the Zipcar name. Zipcar also bought London-based

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, the UK's largest car-sharing service at the time. For his accomplishments at Zipcar, Griffith was named a Mass High Tech All-Star in 2009, selected as one of

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’s 2010 Game-changers in transportation, and dubbed Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 2010 Social Entrepreneur CEO of the Year. In addition,

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named Scott one of its “Best Leaders of 2006,” and he was the recipient of

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's ELiTE Award for entrepreneurship. Griffith has been interviewed by many news outlets, including ''

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, CBS-TV, FOX-TV, ''

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'' and ''

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''. Prior to Zipcar, Griffith held senior level positions at

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, Information America, an

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-based provider of online public record information, and The Parthenon Group, a boutique business strategy and investment firm. After Zipcar, Griffith co-founded TrueMotion, a safe driving technology company, before it was acquired by Cambridge Mobile Telematics. He served as Chairman of the Board while also sitting as

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at General Catalyst.

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