Welcome to Day One with Adam Spencer Monica Zarafu from BYKKO
Recorded as Managing Director, BYKKO
About Monica Zarafu
Monica Zarafu is founder and chief executive of BYKKO, a Newcastle-headquartered smart mobility company that supplies electric bike-share stations and e-mobility hubs for workplaces, apartment buildings, hotels and precincts, from installation to servicing.
A transport engineer, she moved to Australia from Romania in 2010, completed a master's by research and worked at the City of Ryde before starting the business in 2014 with bike-hire stations at hotels. She moved it into electric bike share in 2016. From May 2018 BYKKO ran an Australian-first public e-bike share pilot in Newcastle with Transport for NSW and Newcastle City Council, which later continued as a commercial service. She was named Innovator of the Year at the 2021 Women in Digital Awards.
On Welcome to Day One with Adam Spencer, she told the story of starting BYKKO.
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Welcome to Day One with Adam Spencer In their own words.
“No public transport mode makes profit. Why would bike sharing be compared with car usage?”
The path so far.
- Now
Founder & CEO · BYKKO
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Project Manager and Transport Planner · City of Ryde
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Transport Engineer · CFR Marfa
Sources: bykko.com.au
BYKKO on Day One
BYKKO is a Newcastle, New South Wales company that supplies electric bike-sharing and e-mobility hubs as an amenity for workplaces, apartment buildings, hotels…
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