Umojo Capitalizes on Opportunity in 2023 with Key Appointments and Portfolio Expansion

 

Leading communications and automation company adds to executive team and introduces new Smart City platform solution,

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Chicago, IL – Umojo, the parking and mobility industry’s leading provider of communication, data analytics, and automation solutions has announced its executive appointments and expanded solution offering to empower smarter urban on-street and off-street management in 2023 and beyond.

Umojo is thrilled to elevate Director of Strategy, Tyler Kirsh, to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Tyler has been with Umojo for four years, and over that time has been instrumental in driving business planning and operations, finance, and strategy for the company. As CFO, Tyler will play an integral role is scaling the company’s operations for aggressive growth in 2023.

Umojo has also brought on as VP, Head of Marketing, Jordan Weiss. Jordan, an experienced Parking Industry Marketing leader, will oversee Go-to-Market strategy, messaging, demand gen, brand, and will play a key role in driving market leadership for Umojo across its portfolio.

“I am excited to leverage my tenure at Umojo and expand my responsibilities as we look to building the future of the company,” said Kirsh. “We are entering an exciting time in Umojo’s journey, and I look forward to helping drive strategy and growth with our current valued customer partners, while entering new markets and driving leadership amongst a new customer base.”

In addition to these strategic personnel announcements, Umojo is excited to bring to market its NexCity solution to drive more efficient and safer management of on-street, curb operations. NexCity is a powerful tool that can be used by cities across the world, allowing municipalities to gain control of their curbs, increasing revenue, lowering operation costs, easing traffic congestion, while increasing safety of pedestrians (Vision Zero) and curb equity.

“Since our founding in 2011, Umojo has long become the gold standard in the parking industry for communications and automation in parking facilities.” stated Rick Neubauer, Founder and CEO, “As we continue to grow and cement our leadership in off-street parking, we could not be more excited to take that expertise to the next level and help municipalities modernize their curb management with NexCity. And with the promotion of Tyler Kirsh and addition of Jordan Weiss, we are poised to take both on-street and off-street by storm in 2023.”

With over 3,500 customer locations across globe, Umojo has given operators the freedom and flexibility to integrate a mix of hardware and software, to automate and remotely manage their properties with a multimedia dashboard and data tracking that allowed them to continually improve their operations and get smart about what was really driving their business forward. NexCity is designed to take that core technology architecture that has made the company such a trusted industry partner, and tailors it to an end-to-end solution using the most accurate video artificial intelligence in the industry. Integrated with current city assets and data, and the ability to communicate with that technology and the rest of the city assets, enable municipalities an unparalleled level of intelligence, visualized all via a single pane of glass.

About Umojo

Founded in 2011, Umojo seized on the new opportunities IP telephony and smart technologies made possible in connecting remote individuals, teams, and systems. The company hit its stride in the parking industry where technology systems were siloed, proprietary and unreliable. Umojo’s NexPark platform gave operators the freedom and flexibility to integrate a mix of hardware and software, so they could automate and remotely manage their properties with a multimedia dashboard and data tracking that allowed them to continually improve their operations and get smart about what was really driving their business forward — as well as what was holding it back. In less than a decade, Umojo has set the standard for more efficient parking operations and integrations by providing a unified solution of call routing, remote access controls, and data analytics.

Media Contact:

Jordan Weiss
VP, Head of Marketing, Umojo
ph: 312-257-2504 ext. 2504
jweiss@umojo.com