<article>Grab has appointed former Amazon executive Mark Porter to the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer for Transport, it announced on Friday.</article>

Grab has appointed former Amazon executive Mark Porter to the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer for Transport, it announced on Friday.
Porter will oversee Grab&#8217;s technology infrastructure and transport business teams, including private-car hires, taxi-hailing, motorbike taxis, carpooling and multimodal services. He will also manage the development of agile platforms, machine learning, AI and data science capabilities at Grab.
Based in Seattle, Porter will lead Grab&#8217;s engineering teams across its six R&amp;D centres in Singapore, Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta. The hire strengthens Grab&#8217;s talent pool in transportation as the company expands to new business units like payments and healthcare.
Theo Vassilakis, Group Chief Technology Officer for Grab, said, “Every day we process approximately 20TB of data. No one knows how Southeast Asia moves like we do – and there is so much more we want to do for mobility. Grab is looking at harnessing our data insights on multiple levels – first to deliver a more seamless, personalised and intuitive experience to our customers, second to create smarter and more efficient transport services across Southeast Asia, and third to work with cities to optimise traffic and multi-modal solutions by studying commuting patterns.”
Prior to Grab, Porter spent five years at Amazon where he was General Manager of Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. His past careers stints have been at NASA, Oracle and Caltech.

Grab has appointed former Amazon executive Mark Porter to the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer for Transport, it announced on Friday.

Grab hires former Amazon exec Mark Porter as CTO for transport

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