“It is an exciting time to be in the on-demand transportation industry. I see a lot of potential for growth – for our partners, our clients and DDS Wireless alike. I believe without a doubt, the team at DDS can bring transportation technology to the frontier it needs to be.”
Company
At DDS, we’re re-envisioning transportation in the 21st century
About Us
At DDS Wireless, we are passionate about leveraging technology to provide intelligent solutions to the transportation sector. With our revolutionary AI (Artificial Intelligence) driven routing and scheduling software, we enable transportation providers to offer highly efficient and cost-effective services to their customers.
DDS Wireless is an international company based in Vancouver, BC, Canada and offices in the USA, Finland, the UK, and Sweden. Our cloud-based SaaS offerings are used by numerous paratransit, demand response transit, school bus, and taxi operators around the world. We are proud to support some of the largest operators in the passenger transportation industry including North America’s largest transit authority offering service to over 30,000 paratransit riders every day.
Our Story
DDS was founded in 1987 and started offering software solutions to the taxi industry. During its journey serving the transportation industry, DDS made several strategic acquisitions to offer better and more comprehensive solutions to its customers. Most notably, acquisitions of Stratagen Systems Inc. and Mobisoft OY in 2008 enabled DDS to expand its offerings to the ParaTransit, Home-to-school, and Demand Response Transit Markets. DDS Wireless Inc. was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange from Nov 2003 to Jun 2014 but is now a private company.
Over the last 30+ years, DDS has been a pioneer in the passenger transportation industry with several industry firsts including GPS Dispatching, in-vehicle mobile devices, in-vehicle payments, and AI driven routing & scheduling. DDS continues to innovate and is proud of offering high-value Software-as-a-Service solutions to its customers in the transit, taxi, and home-to-school markets.
Our Vision
Customer focused global leader in intelligent wireless solutions to optimize transportation.
Our Mission
Grow through relentless customer focus by continuously innovating products and services through disciplined exceptional execution with highly skilled staff.
Values and Guiding Principles
Leadership Team
Ali Sanei
Ali Sanei
I’m a forward-thinking executive who thrives in competitive markets while guiding entire businesses to achieve record growth. With 12 years of C-level leadership achievements and another 9 years of senior management consulting, I continue to provide superior outcomes.
I am known as a visionary leader who guides innovative strategies spanning burgeoning startups and growth and mature organizations. I also build lasting stakeholder relationships and act as a thought leader across business advancement and transformation. As an out-of-the-box thinker, I am committed to continuous improvement, using state-of-the-art technology and contemporary methodologies to secure record growth.
Supporting these achievements are my exemplary educational qualifications. These include MBA degree from Cornell University, Chartered Professional Accountant designation from CPA Canada, and CMA designation from CMA BC.
Vari Ghai
Vari Ghai
Vari has been actively involved in the wireless mobile data and transportation industry for over 40 years. Over the last 30+ years, he led DDS Wireless to be an industry leader though series of innovations and strategic acquisitions. Prior to founding DDS Wireless, Vari held several positions at Mobile Data International Inc. (now Motorola Inc.) including President of its’ Taxi Division. Vari has an Electrical Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) and is a registered Professional Engineer.
Kerry Biggs
Kerry Biggs
Kerry Biggs has 25 years of experience, most recently as CFO of a publicly-traded company in the Canadian cannabis sector. Prior to that, Mr. Biggs served as Vice President, Treasurer at Lululemon Athletica, Vice President, Finance at GCT Global Container Terminals., a company wholly owned by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and has held various senior finance roles at Finning International and Enbridge Inc.
Mr. Biggs holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, and a Bachelor of Arts, political science degree from the University of Victoria. Mr. Biggs is a designated Chartered Professional Accountant.
Jaswinder Randhawa
Jaswinder Randhawa
Business executive with over 20 years of international experience in bringing new propositions to market and driving profitable growth. Jaswinder has led marketing, product development, and performance improvement at various organizations across Europe and North America. He also brings significant experience providing strategy and M&A consulting to various corporate and private equity clients. Jaswinder has an MBA from INSEAD, France and holds B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Vikrant Rana
Vikrant Rana
Over 22 years of experience in mid to large scale organisations responsible for IT Engineering, Program management, Strategic planning, Roadmapping, Frameworks and methods and Architecture guidance with a strong background in business processes and technology. This includes hands on experience on IT Architecture design, Software Development and Infrastructure management for global organisations based out of Americas, Asia pacific and Europe.
Recent Achievements:
• Delivery management of $140 million worth of IT infrastructure services & solutions spanning to two year and over 800 FTE globally.
• Successful execution of Bank Transformation program in Latin America.
• Consolidation of Data centre and Service operations regionally to Mexico.
• Reduction in incidents, significant productivity increase by implementation of improved processes, procedures, automation & prevention of human errors
• Improvements across organisation via awareness and Process Re-Engineering using Optimus/RBPM & ITIL
• Reorganization and effective use of off-shoring, near-shoring, in-sourcing and outsourcing capabilities with a 40% of multiple services & support processes delivered out of India (Pune & Hyderabad), China (Guangzhou) & Brazil (Curitiba) from US, Canada, Middle East, UK and Continental Europe.
Specialties:
Strategic Planning | Business Transformation | Enterprise Architecture | Business Architecture | Change Management | Global IT Delivery & Governance | PMO | IT Architecture & Infrastructure Planning | Technology Integration | Regulatory Compliance | M&A Due Diligence | Scorecards, Dashboards & KPI | Outsourcing & Offshoring | E-Commerce & Internet Services | Cloud | RBPM | ITIL | SOA
Strong people skills with a proven record as an operation planner, executioner and IT management. Recognized for focus on service delivery, service quality, cost reduction, innovation, aligning teams and maintaining hands on approach to achieve business goals.
Ken Stavenes
Ken Stavenes
Matti Jokelainen
Matti Jokelainen
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