Leadership
Three decades building the future of electric mobility — before it was inevitable.
Ian McAvoy is the Co-Founder, Chair, and CEO of Volterra Technologies and founder of its IP holding company, VEMX Technologies Inc. A three-time cleantech founder, he brings more than three decades of experience across transportation and technology — including two decades as an executive operator inside municipal and transit organizations in both the United Kingdom and California.
Volterra is his third venture. His first, GreenPower Motor Company — which he co-founded and served as President and Board Director before it was taken public — established his track record in electric mobility. His second, Thomson Power, developed a novel driver-focused energy-efficiency platform. Each gave him direct, operator-level experience of the EV and clean-technology markets EVCare™ now serves.
Before co-founding GreenPower, Ian spent much of his career inside public transit. At the San Mateo County Transit District, Caltrain, and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority, he held a wide infrastructure remit — strategy, planning, engineering, construction, maintenance, real estate, and project finance — serving as Chief Development Officer before leaving to co-found GreenPower. Earlier UK municipal roles, including the London Borough of Barnet, gave him a transatlantic view of how fleets are actually run.
Educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ian today divides his time between California and British Columbia. His combination of front-line transit operations, corporate growth strategy, and global networks is the reason EVCare™ is designed the way it is: not as software built by engineers guessing at what fleet managers need, but as a platform built by someone who has sat in both chairs — and understands exactly what's at stake when a battery fails on a bus route.