After securing a $27 million investment led by NEA in November 2014, GoEuro, the comparison search engine for train, bus and air travel – has announced the appointment of former Google Engineering Director, Kacper Nowicki, as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
With currently over 150 rail, bus and other transport partners across seven countries, GoEuro is fundamentally an engineering-driven tech company with significant planned expansion throughout Europe. The company expects to scale up to over 1000 rail, air and bus companies across Europe within next few years.
Kacper joins the company at a period of significant growth, and will lead the way in building a scalable platform that will allow this unprecedented integration of partners across Europe with real-time data. This, along with placing mobile at the core of GoEuro’s product, will make booking trains and buses across Europe as easy as booking flights.
Polish-born Nowicki, who graduated with a Master’s Degree in High Energy Physics from Warsaw University in 1993, is a software architect and engineer with over 20 years of experience in the design and development of computer software. He joins after spending 8 years at Google where he built Polish engineering team and worked on search, infrastructure and cloud products.
GoEuro Founder and CEO Naren Shaam comments: “Kacper brings a wealth of experience and technical leadership from engineering companies such as Google to the growing Berlin startup ecosystem. He joins a strong COO, Malte Cherdron, among others in a truly international team, with 80 people from 30 different countries, to help build the most sophisticated European transportation booking system available today.”
Kacper Nowicki adds: “GoEuro has an impressive business model and made great progress with its product since it was launched in 2013. I am looking forward to solving a problem of providing best answers for people searching for transportation connections. Finding the best routes for our users is difficult, we serve about 50 time more stations in Europe than there are airports. I look forward to bringing engineering-driven culture to GoEuro, data driven decision making and speed of execution, Google-style.”
