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Smarking's Leadership

Wen Sang, Chief Executive Officer

Leader of the team, Wen is an automotive engineer turned entrepreneur who pinpointed the idea behind the company while earning his PhD at MIT. A hustler, doer, and data-driven thinker, he is passionate about fixing up the information inefficiency in the parking and urban mobility industry and a lover of running, sailing, golfing, and skiing.

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Maokai Lin, Chief Technology Officer

With a PhD in Applied Math / Operations Research from MIT, Maokai has danced with tons of data at Facebook and Morgan Stanley and wants to use his data expertise to propel parking into the future. The winner of a National Olympiad Medal, and the Champion of MIT Poker Bot Competition, Maokai also won “fittest baby” in his hometown at 9 months old.

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Cassius Jones, Head of National Accounts

Spearheading Smarking's nationwide business development and customer success since 2015, Cassius has a passion for discovering new ways of leveraging Smarking’s Business Intelligence and Yield Management platforms to enable business successes for commercial real estate managers, municipal parking managers, parking operations professionals, and many others in this $100B+ massive but overlooked industry. A former UBS banker, Cassius graduated from William and Mary with a degree in Finance and enjoys spending his spare time at the gym and beating his colleagues in board games.

In the News

June 2020: Yahoo! Finance

Smarking Launches the First Parking Industry Benchmark to Help Accelerate the Recovery of Parking Businesses

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Oct 2019: Bloomberg  

Smarking Boosts Commercial Real Estate Revenue and Asset Value Via Dynamic Pricing Engine for Parking

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Oct 2019: ParkNews

Smarking Launches Parking Industry’s First Fully Automatic Dynamic Pricing Engine

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October 2019: Business Wire

USA’s Largest Parking Automation Provider Amano McGann Partners with Smarking - Industry Leader in Business Intelligence and Yield Management Software

April 2015: Tech Crunch

Smarking Drives Big Data to the Parking Industry

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Nov 2015: The Wall Street Journal 

Smarking Raises $3 Million to Help Parking Providers Fill Every Space

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April 2017: Dezyre

5 Big Data Applications for Parking Lots

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March 2018: CRETech

One of the Best Signs that Commercial Real Estate is Really Gaining Momentum

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September 2015: NPA

National Parking Association 40 Under 40: Smarking's CEO, Wen Sang

By providing market-leading Business Intelligence and Yield Management Enterprise SaaS to the industry, Smarking has been enabling revenue increases at 2,000+ parking locations across North America. 

Smarking is a San Francisco-based technology company founded by two MIT PHD professionals. With a team of enterprise leaders, we're on a mission to enable highly efficient urban mobility by providing cutting edge solutions to parking leaders.  

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We work with leading commercial real estate owners and parking management firms such as, Brookfield Properties, Hines, Tishman Speyer, and many others, to maximize the return of their conventionally overlooked parking assets.