The Company

ParkingCarma is pioneering new ground by using technology to improve quality of life and the environment, while solving one of today’s largest metropolitan issues: Parking. SmartParking is the application of information technology to improve parking, thereby mitigating the environmental impact of vehicles. ParkingCarma™ is a patented SmartParking Information Network (SPIN) that enables SmartParking and other services. The network uses wireless sensors and interfaces to gather, organize, analyze, and process parking information from off-street parking facilities, and then distribute it to drivers and local organizations in a convenient, easy-to-use manner.

Background

Launched in 2001, ParkingCarma’s innovative SmartParking technology allows drivers to determine the real-time availability of parking spaces from their cars, homes or offices. Recognizing the need for a parking solution, Rick brought together a proven team of both community and technological leaders to form ParkingCarma, Inc.

The Carma Team

ParkingCarma has been made possible because of the hard work and dedication of our team:

Rick Warner, ParkingCarma’s CEO and veteran innovator of technology in the transportation industry, draws on over two decades of knowledge in areas that range from high-strength/low-weight materials for aerospace to providing real-time information to users of ’smart phones’ and PDA’s.

His past responsibilities include: product design adapting aerospace materials for use in trucks, venture-capital fund-raising for several companies, management of R&D teams in wireless communication and sales in a variety of arenas. Prior to founding Acme Innovation three years ago, Rick led the development of Action Engine and was named Computer World Smithsonian Laureate for his work with this innovative wireless company.

He received an undergraduate degree from Michigan State and an MBA from the University of Washington. Rick serves on the Transportation Research Board’s New Transportation Systems And Technology committee and is a resident of Emeryville, CA.

Christian McCarrick is the Chief Technology Officer at ParkingCarma. Prior to Co-Founding ParkingCarma, Christian was Vice-President of Technology at EscapeHomes.com and TotalMove.com. Christian has led technology teams at Sybase, NetCentric, LiveCapital (Dun & Bradstreet), and has started and sold several technology startups, most notably, Hosting.com.

Christian has proven expertise in many technology areas including: high transaction web applications, mobile application development, interactive speech applications, data center operations, security & privacy compliance, search engine optimization, desktop applications, mapping software, and Intelligent Transportation Systems. Christian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Biology from Holy Cross.

Trish Healy, ParkingCarma, Board of Advisors. Ms. Healy is Co-Founder of Hyde Street Holdings, LLC. Prior to Hyde Street Holdings, LLC., Ms. Healy was Co-Founder of the Hanford/Healy Companies (1988). The Hanford/Healy Companies was a hands-on real estate consulting, asset management and investment firm combining real estate analytics with loan workouts and originations, repackaging and sales (often through the public markets). General Motor’s subsidiary GMAC Commercial Mortgage purchased the Hanford/Healy Companies in September of 1996. Prior, Ms. Healy has also held various senior management positions with real estate and financial firms.

Ms. Healy has served on the advisory board of Precept Corporation; the Board of Friends of San Francisco Recreation and Park; Larkin Street Youth Center and California Community Development Corporation. In addition, Ms. Healy and her husband have been actively involved in the development of various educational and mentoring programs for incarcerated and ’at risk’ youths in the Napa Valley.

Ms. Healy was recently been elected incoming chair of ArtSpace in Raleigh; chaired the 150th Anniversary Celebration of Old St. Mary’s, the oldest cathedral in California, and Chaired the 25th Anniversary celebration of USCF’s Rosalind Russell Center for Arthritis Research.

Membership in professional associations include: Lambda Alpha; the American Society of Real Estate Councilors (CRE) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), in which she is a Trustee and Governor. Within ULI Ms.Healy has chaired two different product councils; the Inclusivity Initiative; the Annual Fund and serves on the Executive Committee of her District Council.

Ms. Healy has undergraduate (BA) from Tulane University and graduate degrees from Southern Methodist University (MBA) and The American Graduate School of International Management (MIM).

John J. Healy Jr., ParkingCarma’s Chairman of the Board. Mr. Healy is Co-Founder and Principal of Hyde Street Holdings, LLC, "HSH" (1996-Present). HSH is a small boutique investment firm specializing in the acquisition of opportunistic real estate and/or real estate debt; the strategic investment (planning, operational execution and financial capitalization) of real estate entities or products (intersection of real estate and technology) and the provision of management (as a principal) in the repositioning/turn a round or growth opportunities involving large assets or companies.

Prior to HSH, Mr. Healy was Co-Founder and CEO of the Hanford/Healy Companies (1988-1996). The firm (through 5 national offices) provided real estate investment and advisory services, asset management (rated-special servicer) services and acted as a principal in the acquisition of loan portfolios and below investment grade portions of securities. The firm specialized in real estate analytics, loan workout, repackaging and sales (often through public market execution). General Motor’s subsidiary GMAC Commercial Mortgage purchased the Hanford/Healy Companies in September of 1996.

Mr. Healy has also held various management positions with real estate and financial firms including: Manufactures Hanover Trust Company (VP), The Federal Asset Disposition Association (predecessor to the RTC) and Bank of America (COO and Director of Technical Services for a real estate subsidiary).

Board Memberships

Public
- AvalonBay Communities (REIT) NYSE (AVB) 1998-Present: Committee Assignments: Nominating and Corporate Governance 1998-2004 (Chair 1998-2003); Investment and Finance 1998-present, Chair (2003-present); Technology 1998 to 2003 (merged into Investment and Finance); Compensation 2003-Present

Private
-AMB Institutional Alliance Fund III, LLP (Independent Council) 2004-Present (Subsidiary of NYSE company AMB)

-Libritas 2000-2002, Sold 12-03 to Next Web, Inc.

-ParkingCarma, Chairman of the Board

Non-Profit
-President and Director: Research Triangle Chapter-National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) 2006-Present

-ULI Triangle Chapter Board and Executive Committee (2005-Present)

-Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis (UCSF) 1997-present

-San Francisco Architectural Heritage 1993-1998; Napa Valley Community Housing 1998-2002

Membership in professional associations includes: National Association of Corporate Directors-Certificate of Director Education 2005; National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Urban Land Institute (Councils have included: Small Scale Development, Multi-Family, Inner City and Affordable Housing); American Society of Real Estate Councilors (CRE); American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (MAI-Inactive)-former Long Island Chapter President and Board Member; Fellow-Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Mr. Healy has undergraduate (BBA) and graduate (MBA) degrees in Finance from Hofstra University.

Vision

ParkingCarma's vision is to make people’s lives more productive and support sustainable development by improving the experience of finding a place to park from one of uncertainty, frustration and fuel-wasting searching to one of ease and confidence.

Fundamentally, the top 20 US cities face increasing congestion problems because of steady population growth and the lack of property to build additional parking. This makes commuting, going out for an evening, or even finding a parking spot in your own neighborhood more and more frustrating!

ParkingCarma will help improve the quality of life and increase community development and productivity.

Partners

The California Department of Transportation strives to be the highest performing transportation agency in the country. In pursuit of our mission, we continue to build a talented and diverse team and to strengthen ties with our partners. To keep California moving, we commit ourselves to these goals and values.

California PATH was established in 1986. It is administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Caltrans. PATH is a multi-disciplinary program with staff, faculty and students from universities statewide, and cooperative projects with private industry, state and local agencies, and non-profit institutions.

An analysis by researchers at UC Berkeley shows that without BART, traffic jams from Bay Area bridges would spill back to most of the East Bay and San Francisco street networks.