Edwin Olson | Chief Executive Officer and Founder
May Mobility

Edwin Olson is the CEO and founder of May Mobility, Inc. He has focused on the development of autonomous vehicles for more than two decades, co-leading autonomous vehicle development at Toyota Research Institute and helping to develop Ford Motor Company’s autonomous vehicles. Edwin has a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan. He got his start in autonomous technology participating in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007 as part of the MIT team. He was named New Enterprise Forum’s 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year and was one of Crain’s Detroit Business’ Notable Leaders in Energy in 2023