Meet Courtney

I understand how overwhelming it is to stay on top of new entrants and emerging trends in the mobility industry while trying to run a successful organization, designing public policy, and using technology for good in communities. Like you, I care about solving real-world problems.

I’m Courtney Ehrlichman, CEO of The Ehrlichman Group. Along with founding a company out of the world’s #1 robotics research institute at Carnegie Mellon University, I’ve spent the past 16 years helping countless startups, corporations, and government agencies navigate the mobility industry, develop products to fit the market, design policy that fosters innovation, and invest in technology that positively impacts communities. When you have proven insights you can act on, you’re able to anticipate changes in the market; be well positioned to capitalize on them; better serve your customers, clients, and constituents; and grow.

Prior to founding the Ehrlichman Group, Ms. Ehrlichman spent a decade at Carnegie Mellon University serving pioneering minds in different capacities. As Deputy Director of the Traffic21 Institute, she ran $90M in future of transportation R&D across Computer Science, Robotics, Policy and Engineering Schools, in partnership with USDOT, pushing the national conversation into an automated vehicle future while building partnerships to deploy the research in a real-world testbeds. Prior to that, she was awarded an Obama Stimulus grant for her economic development research, which was spun out into a nationally-recognized, entrepreneurship fellowship

In late 2016, while at CMU, Ms. Ehrlichman co-founded RoadBotics, a Robotics Institute spin-off company that uses AI to monitor road surfaces. She writes on the social implications of mobility ai and has spoken both locally and globally about her concerns (from TEDx Pittsburgh to the United Nations).

Ms. Ehrlichman serves as an advisor for start-ups at Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurships; on the boards of Partnership for Advancing Responsible Technology (PART) and the Intelligent Transportation Society of Pennsylvania (ITSPA); and on the Pennsylvania Autonomous Vehicle (PAAV) Task Force and PittCyber’s Public Algorithm Task Force. Ms. Ehrlichman is a founding board member of the Women’s Transportation Seminar - Pittsburgh Chapter.

Of note

• Advisor, Mobility Start-ups, Carnegie Mellon University

• Universal Basic Mobility Keynote: United Nation’s AI for Good Conference, 2019

• State of the AV Industry: Presentation to Pennsylvania AV Task Force, 2019

• Contributing Writer at The Drive, 2019

• Winner of Ford’s City of Tomorrow Challenge Pittsburgh, 2018

• Transpo Tech Subject Matter Expert for Mobiliti, a first of it’s kind co-design workshop

• Tedx Talk: Autonomous Vehicles for the Rest of US, 2018

• Co-founded RoadBotics - a spin out of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute; $7.5M Series A round

• USDOT Smart City Challenge, Mobility Analytics Lead, SmartPGH

Psssst:

To find out when Courtney worked as a bicycle messenger, visit LinkedIN.

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