Courtney Ehrlichman, CEO

Courtney Ehrlichman, CEO, started her career as a scrappy bike messenger curious about commerce and community. Then she pitched herself as a growth-agent and shaped up a punk rock ironworking shop into an award-winning business. In less than two years, with Courtney as Director of Operations, the owner of Red Star Ironworks was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the US Small Business Administration with net revenue growth of 200% year over year.

In 2016, Ms. Ehrlichman co-founded RoadBotics — a Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute spin-off — that uses artificial intelligence to monitor road surfaces in over 200 cities around the world.

Ms. Ehrlichman spent a decade at Carnegie Mellon University serving as Deputy Executive Director of the Traffic21 Institute and two USDOT National University Transportation Research Centers; Assistant Director of two internationally-recognized art-as-social-practice spaces; and as a special faculty researcher designing and deploying a nationally-recognized entrepreneurship fellowship that was backed by the 2009 US Stimilus package.

Ms. Ehrlichman proudly serves on the board of the Intelligent Transportation Society of PA, ITS of America’s Cybersecurity Task Force, Pennsylvania’s Autonomous Vehicle Task Force and PittCyber’s Public Algorithm Task Force. She earned her MPM degree at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College of Public Policy + Information Systems and her BA in Urban and Architectural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.