Career
In 2000, Chase co-founded Zipcar with Antje Danielson.[6] In January 2001, Chase fired Danielson after she petitioned Zipcar's board for the ability to make hiring and firing decisions without consulting them.[6] In February 2003, after difficulties in securing additional rounds of funding, Chase was replaced as CEO by the Zipcar board with Scott Griffith.[6]
In addition to Veniam, Chase has served as a board member for the World Resources Institute,[7] and has been since 2014 chairperson of the board for the Nasdaq and TSE listed Tucows Inc.[8]
Formerly, she served on the board of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation,[9] was a member of the World Economic Forum's Transportation Council, a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship,[10] the US Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advisory Committee,[11] the Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force,[12] and Governor Deval Patrick's Transportation Transition Team.[13]
She has appeared in national media such as the Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired, Newsweek and Time magazines, and has been mentioned in several books on entrepreneurship.
Chase is a proponent for the creation of a wireless mesh network[14] so that end-user devices can create a shared wireless network.[15]
In France she started Buzzcar, now Getaround.com a car sharing system See TED Talk
