• Optibus,  a mobility planning and management platform specializing in city-based bus travel, announced that it has expanded its leadership team in India, Australia, and Japan in line with its commitment to expand its operations in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.  

• The leadership team that joined Optibus includes Oshima Hiroshi; Country Manager, Japan, Russ Yell, Regional Director for Australia and New Zealand, and Nag Sharma and Polash Das, Regional Directors in India. Shaun Bretstein, Optibus' General Manager of APAC will oversee the teams.  

• The new hires will lead the local teams in each of these markets to support Optibus customers in the region such as Chartered Speed, an inter-city electric bus service in India.  

<ul><li> Analyst QuickTake: After having grown its presence in South America, Optibus has turned its sites to the APAC region, where improving public transit services is a priority for many countries. Optibus’ newly introduced real-time bus depot operations solution is likely to support this growth, where bus services are a common form of transportation, especially in emerging markets such as India.</ul>