“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
DDS Wireless is a global leader in providing intelligent passenger transportation solutions. DDS boasts its patented ‘routing & scheduling’ and ‘closest cab dispatch’ algorithms as the best in the industry and is the leader in providing integrated hardware and software solutions.
DDS Wireless is an international company based in Canada with offices in the US, Finland, UK, and Sweden from where it designs, and supplies SaaS-based solutions to the Taxi and Transit markets. We use state-of-the-art technologies to provide real-time dispatching, vehicle location & tracking, and routing & scheduling optimization solutions. Our product offerings include TaxiBook Cloud, ADEPT IQ, and MTC as well as ruggedized Android tablets for the transportation industry.
Our products and solutions are used by a wide range of customers including North America’s largest transit authority to efficiently dispatch over 30,000 rides every day.
Our Story
DDS Wireless International Inc. was founded in 1987 as Digital Dispatch Systems Inc. and was renamed to its present name after the acquisitions of Stratagen Systems Inc. and MobiSoft Oy in 2008 to better represent the diverse and global nature of our business. From November 2003 to June 2014 DDS was listed on the Toronto Stock exchange but is now a private company.
DDS was founded by Vari Ghai, our chairman, when he bought the rights to the IPR related to taxi dispatch software from Motorola Inc. In 1992, DDS bought Kustom Electronics Ltd. based in Kansas, which designed and manufactured in-vehicle mobile data terminals (MDTs). This enabled DDS to transition from purely a software company to an integrated software and hardware company. Following the acquisition of the Transportation division of MDSI based in Cambridge, UK in 1999, DDS expanded into markets in Europe and Asia. The acquisition of MobiSoft in Finland and Seattle-based StrataGen Systems enabled DDS to target the Transit market.
Over the last 30+ years, DDS has been a pioneer in the passenger transportation industry with a number of industry firsts including GPS Dispatching, Win CE mobile computers, and in-vehicle payments. DDS continues to innovate and is proud of offering high-value services to its customers in 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
Vari Ghai
Executive Chairman
Vari Ghai
Executive Chairman
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.
Jaswinder Randhawa
VP – Product Management & Marketing
Jaswinder Randhawa
VP – Product Management & Marketing
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.
Charles Cyna
VP – Sales
Charles Cyna
VP – Sales
Software Industry background. Current focus is on providing SaaS based global transit solutions as part of DDS Wireless. Experience in SaaS Sales Methodologies, Continued Service Improvement, CRM, Call Centres and Technical Service Desks.
Specialties: Building Sales Teams, Continued Service Improvement (CSI), Building companies, IT, Sales and Marketing SaaS Analytics, Service Desk, IT Technology Evaluation, ITIL, Corporate Governance solutions (COBIT)
Vikrant Rana
VP – Software Engineering
Vikrant Rana
VP – Software Engineering
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.
John Matthews
VP – Support Services
John Matthews
VP – Support Services
Ken Stavenes
VP – IT and Dev-Ops
Ken Stavenes
VP – IT and Dev-Ops
Matti Jokelainen
Country Manager, Finland
Matti Jokelainen
Country Manager, Finland
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