Board Members

Sona Wang

Chairman
Managing Director, Ceres Venture Fund L.P.
Ms. Sona Wang possesses over 20 years of institutional venture investment experience. Since 1987, she has raised three Chicago-based venture capital funds totaling over $100 million under management: Batterson, Johnson & Wang, INROADS Capital Partners, and CERES Venture Fund LP. Previously, she was an investment manager with Allstate Venture Capital, one of the oldest institutional venture funds with over $400 million invested. Her investment focus has been in information technology, business services, and healthcare. She has served on numerous corporate  boards including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, High Tower Software, TrafficCast International, SuccessLab Inc., Ultimo Enterprises, and IKOS Systems. Prior to her career in venture capital, Ms. Wang was employed with Intel Corporation in key management positions in engineering, manufacturing and marketing. Ms. Wang graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering (1980) and received an M.B.A., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of  Management. She currently serves on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees.

Bin Ran

PhD, Co-founder
Dr. Ran also provides strategic consulting services to the Company. Dr. Ran is a full Professor and the Director of the Traffic Lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison . Dr. Ran is an expert in dynamic transportation network models and traffic simulation and control, and has led the development and deployment of various information systems and technologies, Internet/Intranet and web-based geographical information systems. Dr. Ran is the author of two leading textbooks on dynamic traffic networks. He has published 51 papers in refereed journals, and has presented 83-refereed papers at national and international conferences. Earlier in his career, Dr. Ran held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California at Berkeley . He is active in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America ).

Connie Li

PhD, PE, Co-founder, President & CEO
Dr. Li is a co-author of one of the leading traffic flow texts. She founded and was the CEO for a successful and profitable traffic and transportation consulting business, TranSmart Technologies, for several years before founding TrafficCast, Inc. and TrafficCast International, Inc. Dr. Li received her PhD in Transportation Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago, her MS in Transportation Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and her BS in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. She is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Wisconsin , Minnesota , Illinois and Arizona .

Terry Kelly

Mr. Kelly is the President and Principal Owner of Weather Central, Inc. He is also the Chairman and CEO of MyWeather, LLC. A leader in the development of innovative weather display and forecasting equipment, software and services for over 30 years, Mr. Kelly holds a degree in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison , The American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval , and the AMS award for Outstanding Service By A Broadcast Meteorologist . He has founded several other successful technology companies, including ColorGraphics System, Inc., and New Star. He also managed the Dynatech Video Group of companies from 1983 through 1993. Mr. Kelly has been an owner of radio and television stations, and he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in Wisconsin by Ernst & Young in 2003. He also served as the Chairman and CFO of Air America Radio.

Paul Schneider

Mr. Paul Schneider is a Director for Schneider National. He is responsible for new business development and pricing of over $3.5 billion in annual revenue with Schneider’s global client base. He re-joined the family business in September of 1998 as a supply chain engineer.  From 1999-2003, he spearheaded Schneider’s e-commerce efforts, served as Director of Research and General Manager at Schneider Logistics. He successfully launched a new internet-based procurement product called BidSmart. In 2003, he led Schneider National’s Midwest driver operations. Prior to this, he was a financial analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co.’s investment banking division. Mr. Schneider serves on the Board of Directors of Schneider National, Inc. and Family Services of Wisconsin. Mr. Schneider received a bachelor's degree in economics from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.  He earned a master’s of science degree in information systems from the University of Wisconsin.  

Board Observers

Joseph P. Hildebrandt

Mr. Hildebrandt is a Partner at Foley & Lardner, LLP, was founder and chair of the Emerging Companies/Venture Capital Team and is a member of the firm's Private Equity & Venture Capital (which he founded and co-chaired), Transactional & Securities, and Emerging Technologies Practices. He has represented clients in over 350 private placement offerings. Outside of his legal practice, Joe has personally invested in over 50 private companies, has been a vice president of a small investment brokerage firm, manager or co-manager of several small venture capital funds or partnerships, and active in the venture capital community for over 30 years. Joe has served by appointment on several Wisconsin Securities Commissioner's committees and as chairman of the Wisconsin Secretary of State Improvement Committee and has participated in drafting Wisconsin legislation for partnership, corporation, LLC, tax credit and securities laws. He was co-organizer of the Governor's Summit on Venture Capital, co-organizer and president of the Wisconsin World Trade Center-Madison, Inc., and co-organizer, officer and director of Downtown Madison Partners, Inc., and The Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, Inc. He was awarded the national Lynford Lardner Community Service Award, the Madison Catholic Women's Club Christian Achievement Award, and the Madison Community Foundation Individual Excellence Award. Included in Who's Who in American Law, he has received the highest performance rating in the Martindale-Hubbell national directory of attorneys and was selected to be listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for the last 10 years. He earned a BS in Finance, Investment and Banking, and his MBA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He received his JD degree from Harvard Law School.

Barbara Boxer

Ms. Boxer is a Managing Director of Women Angels of Milwaukee and Florida and General Counsel and Director of Governmental Affairs of PDM Bridge. She was the chair of the Government Relations Department at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. She has substantial political experience at the local, state and national levels and her clients include Fortune 500 companies, commercial developers, municipalities and a wide range of nonprofit organizations. She served on the steering committee for Wisconsin Women's Prosperity under Lieutenant Governor Lawton. She sits on the boards of numerous local nonprofit organizations including the Medical College of Wisconsin, YMCA, Jewish Home Foundation and Westside Healthcare Association. She earned a Master degree in Public Administration and a law degree from Marquette University. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Wisconsin State Bar and the Milwaukee Bar Association. In addition, she is a member of the Association for Women Lawyers and the Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists.