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Streetline’s advisors are leaders in technology, transportation and city planning.

Robert Cervero
Dr. Cervero is Professor and Chair of the Dept of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, and one of the world’s foremost authorities on sustainable transportation systems.

Donald Shoup
Dr. Shoup is Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, and is recognized as the world’s foremost authority on parking policy and management. His recently published book, The High Cost of Free Parking, has been praised as a blueprint for better parking management and land use.


Paul A. ToliverPaul A. Toliver, Advisory Board Member
Paul has 34 years of experience in the transportation industry including Director of the King County Department of Transportation, Transit Director for Seattle Metro, Deputy General Manager/Chief Transportation Officer for the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) and Assistant General Manager for Operations for the New Orleans Regional Transportation Authority. Paul is a current member and former Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Norman Y. Mineta Institute, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA). He is also a past Vice President for Management and Finance of the American Public Transit Association and past National Chairman/President of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials. Paul has both a Bachelor’s of Business Administration and Master’s of Business Administration degree from the University of Cincinnati.


Carol Redfield
Ms. Redfield is an expert in the field of pricing optimization, demand forecasting and inventory management. As Senior Vice President of Talus Solutions, the world leader in the development of pricing optimization solutions, Ms. Redfield led sales, development, and operation of market-based pricing solutions for freight transportation, and expanded the company’s products into the telecommunications and manufacturing markets. As Vice President at Decision Focus Incorporated, Ms. Redfield led the company’s transportation practice, building revenue management solutions for airlines, car rental companies, and freight carriers. Ms. Redfield holds an MS in Operations Research from MIT and a BS in Math and Economics from Duke University.

Gordon Bell
Mr. Bell is a principal researcher with the Microsoft eSciences Research Group in San Francisco, and Visiting Professor at Macquarie University¹s Institute for Innovation. Mr. Bell¹s career includes: Vice President of R & D, Digital Equipment Corp. (1960-1983); Professor of Computer Science and electrical engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-72); founding Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation’s Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate (1986-1988); National Research and Education Network (NREN) panel chair (1987-1988) for creating the internet. He is a Diamond Exchange Fellow, on TTI Vanguard¹s Advisory Board, and the Dept. of Energy¹s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee. Mr. Bell has BS and MS degrees from MIT (1956-57), University of New South Wales Fulbright Scholar (1957-58) an honorary D. Eng. from WPI (1993), and is a member of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Science. His awards include: ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, the IEEE¹s Computer Pioneer and McDowell Awards, and the IEEE Von Neumann Medal, Fellow of the Computer History Museum, the AEA Inventor Award for the economic contribution to New England, the IEEE 2001 Karapetoff Eminent Member’s Award of Eta Kappa Nu, and The 1991 National Medal of Technology.

John Mashey
Dr. Mashey is “an ancient UNIX person,” having started work on it at Bell Labs in 1973, and continuing there for 10 years. He was the principal maintainer of the PWB shell, more popularly known as the “Mashey Shell”. He moved to Silicon Valley in 1983 to join Convergent Technologies, ending as Director of Software. Dr. Mashey joined MIPS Computer Systems in early 1985, managing operating systems development, and helping design the MIPS RISC architecture, as well as specific CPUs, systems and software. He continued similar work at Silicon Graphics (1992 2000), most recently contributing to the design of SGI’s NUMAflex modular computer architecture, ending as VP and Chief Scientist. Dr. Mashey was one of the founders of the SPEC benchmarking group, was an ACM National Lecturer for four years, has been guest editor for IEEE Micro, and one of the long-time organizers of the Hot Chips conferences. Additionally, he has chaired technical conferences on operating systems and CPU chips, and has given more than 500 public talks on software engineering, RISC design, performance benchmarking and supercomputing. He currently consults for venture capitalists and high-tech companies, and is a trustee of the Computer History Museum. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Mashey was widely known for the IBM Model 360 assembler language teaching software, ASSIST (Assembler System for Student Instruction and Systems Teaching), that he developed while at Penn State with the help of his computer science students.

Elizabeth Sullivan
Ms. Sullivan is a co-founder of Streetline Networks and is credited with the company¹s early mission-driven commercial success and collaboration with Bay Area cities. She transitioned from the management team to Streetline¹s Advisory Board in early 2007, to spend more time with her newborn son and family. Ms. Sullivan is a seasoned community organizer and social entrepreneur with strong ties to the San Francisco Bay Area non-profit world. Before Streetline, she founded and ran a successful car-sharing program called City CarShare in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work in urban community transformation and smart growth has earned her recognition from notable agencies such as the California Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco Tomorrow, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. She is an active member of numerous Bay Area organizations including the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR), the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, and Mission Parents. Sullivan holds a BA in Communication from Antioch College.