Jon McBride, Executive Director

Jon McBride is a musician, producer, business manager, and creative advocate for human growth. He brings vision and humor to the challenge of broadening perspectives and connecting people and ideas.

After a fifteen-year career in Los Angeles working in film and television music production, Jon relocated to Burlington, Vermont, with his wife and daughter, where he has pursued interests in community investment models, net-zero building design, and policy surrounding shared mobility, and equity, climate justice, and de-carbonizing transport and our built environment.

He was the Director of Operations & Business Development for BRIDJ, a micro-transit startup founded in 2013, providing technology for efficient and accessible transportation to both public and private partners. Following BRIDJ, Jon worked as a transportation consultant for a national firm based in the Washington, DC area. He also managed operations, strategy, and business development for BreakShuttle, the largest college break transportation company in the United States.

Jon has been honored to speak at many transit conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada. He worked with the cities of Austin, Texas, and Kansas City on their Smart City Challenge bids, and he contributed to the International Transport Forum report, Shaping the Relationship Between Public Transport and Innovative Mobility, presented to the ITF-OECD Governance of Transport Summit in 2017.

As a marketing consultant, he has worked with businesses and nonprofits (including EarthTones), providing strategy, content development, media creation, email marketing, and SEO support.

Jon continues to be an active musician and composer, playing saxophone and leading his own band several times a month in performances at clubs and festivals across Vermont and upstate New York.

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