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Gabe Klein
Gabe Klein is a government official, urban planner, entrepreneur, and an investor specializing in sustainability and transportation.
Klein served in the Biden Administration as the head of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. In this role, he worked to enable the roll-out of a national electric vehicle charging network and electric school and transit busses in the U.S. Klein–who supported a $19 billion budget in this position–was the first-ever Executive Director of the Joint Office, also the first office in the federal government to span multiple agencies.
Previously, Klein co-founded Cityfi, a consultancy that works with local governments, foundations, and venture-backed startups. He was also the Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), and the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT). Before those roles, Klein was an Executive with Boston-based Zipcar. He authored the book Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun.
Gabe Klein was born in Hartford, Connecticut. At 10, he studied under Swami Satchidananda Swami Satchidananda at the Yogaville Vidyalayam interfaith school in Buckingham County, Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1994 with a degree in marketing management.
Gabe Klein's career began working as Director of Stores for Bikes USA, the largest bike retailer in the 1990s.
In late 2002, Klein was hired by Zipcar Founder Robin Chase to help scale the company, which had less than 30 cars in Washington D.C. and under 150 cars nationally. As regional Vice President, he convinced the D.C. government to give Zipcar on-street parking, and oversaw a team that developed models for fleet management, operations, and marketing.
Concurrently, Klein co-founded On The Fly, an electric vehicle vending company, with electric food trucks called SmartKarts that drove on the streets and sidewalks, serving local, fresh, and natural food in the Washington, DC area. On the Fly was one of the first multi-unit and multi-channel food truck companies in the United States, with brick and mortar stores and mobile catering options launched in 2008.
Klein was appointed by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty as the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) in December 2008, and served until the end of Fenty's term on December 31, 2010. Klein immediately solicited feedback from progressive City Council members, smart growth organizations, and people in the smart cities and transportation space nationally in order to reinvent the agency as a customer-focused operation.
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Gabe Klein
Gabe Klein is a government official, urban planner, entrepreneur, and an investor specializing in sustainability and transportation.
Klein served in the Biden Administration as the head of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. In this role, he worked to enable the roll-out of a national electric vehicle charging network and electric school and transit busses in the U.S. Klein–who supported a $19 billion budget in this position–was the first-ever Executive Director of the Joint Office, also the first office in the federal government to span multiple agencies.
Previously, Klein co-founded Cityfi, a consultancy that works with local governments, foundations, and venture-backed startups. He was also the Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), and the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT). Before those roles, Klein was an Executive with Boston-based Zipcar. He authored the book Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun.
Gabe Klein was born in Hartford, Connecticut. At 10, he studied under Swami Satchidananda Swami Satchidananda at the Yogaville Vidyalayam interfaith school in Buckingham County, Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1994 with a degree in marketing management.
Gabe Klein's career began working as Director of Stores for Bikes USA, the largest bike retailer in the 1990s.
In late 2002, Klein was hired by Zipcar Founder Robin Chase to help scale the company, which had less than 30 cars in Washington D.C. and under 150 cars nationally. As regional Vice President, he convinced the D.C. government to give Zipcar on-street parking, and oversaw a team that developed models for fleet management, operations, and marketing.
Concurrently, Klein co-founded On The Fly, an electric vehicle vending company, with electric food trucks called SmartKarts that drove on the streets and sidewalks, serving local, fresh, and natural food in the Washington, DC area. On the Fly was one of the first multi-unit and multi-channel food truck companies in the United States, with brick and mortar stores and mobile catering options launched in 2008.
Klein was appointed by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty as the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) in December 2008, and served until the end of Fenty's term on December 31, 2010. Klein immediately solicited feedback from progressive City Council members, smart growth organizations, and people in the smart cities and transportation space nationally in order to reinvent the agency as a customer-focused operation.