CEO
Lawrence Mulligan
Lawrence runs the company. He owns commercial strategy, investor relations, and the cross-functional execution that turns research and patents into shipping deployments.
LinkedInThe same year the App Store launched, we started using phones to verify real-world travel. Nearly two decades later, the platform underneath that idea is live on five U.S. networks, proven in a 2017 corporate pilot at Toyota, and protected by thirty-two granted U.S. patents. We're the longest-standing smartphone-mobility company in the United States.
The company that became Carma Technology Corporation was founded by Sean O'Sullivan as Avego, with the original thesis that the phone in every driver's pocket was enough infrastructure to verify real-world travel. That bet — that smartphones could replace the roadside hardware the transportation industry had assumed was non-negotiable — has shaped every product we've built since.
Today Carma is led by three operating co-founders — Lawrence Mulligan, Paul Steinberg, and Emmett Murphy — who have spent the last decade turning that thesis into shipping deployments. Sean's role is strategic and capital, via the firm he founded.
We hold thirty-two granted U.S. patents covering the smartphone-mobility stack: how a phone verifies a trip, how occupancy is determined, how a road segment is priced, how an HOV discount is settled. We are the longest-standing company in this space — by a measurable margin.
Carma's leadership has been building this category longer than any team in the U.S. transportation sector. Three co-founders still run the company. A head of engineering ships the platform. A VP of operations ships the agency deployments. The same senior team owns every line of code, every customer call, and every contract — which is why we deploy in weeks while the legacy toll-system vendors take years.
Lawrence runs the company. He owns commercial strategy, investor relations, and the cross-functional execution that turns research and patents into shipping deployments.
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Paul owns the commercial channel — agency relationships, corporate partnerships, and the deal pipeline. The reason a DOT, a corporate sustainability lead, or a tolling integrator is talking to us at all is usually Paul.
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Emmett owns product. The Driving Wallet — the platform that spans HOV verification, tolling, transit, parking, and the corporate VMT bank — sits under his roof.
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Eoin runs engineering across the platform — the iOS / Android wallet, the agency back-end, the eligibility engine, and the integrations with the existing roadside and back-office systems we plug into.
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Katy runs operations across the live deployments — onboarding agencies, shepherding pilots, owning the customer relationship from first call through reporting. The reason a deployment is live and reporting on time is usually Katy.
LinkedInCarma's primary investor is SOSV, the venture firm founded by Sean O'Sullivan — the same Sean who founded Avego and shaped Carma's original thesis. SOSV's relationship with the company is strategic and capital. The day-to-day company is run by the three operating co-founders.
Founder of Avego — the company that became Carma. Anytime the word "founder" appears in Carma's history, this is who's meant. Sean is the strategic and capital relationship between the company and SOSV; he is not on the operating staff.
Our work is measured by how many drive-alone miles get displaced, how many tons of CO₂ are kept out of the atmosphere, and how many transportation programs become more equitable and more efficient as a result.