Executive Management

Sam Zaid serves as Chief Executive Officer of Getaround and is a member of the Getaround Board. An engineer by training, Mr. Zaid has over two decades of experience in working with innovative companies in all areas of technology. Prior to founding Getaround, Mr. Zaid founded Apption, an enterprise software consultancy, and 360pi, a retail price intelligence platform which was acquired by Vista Equity. Mr. Zaid is the recipient of a number of accolades including E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2009, Microsoft Code Award 2008, and a Google Scholarship. He is an active member of the technology community and a co-founder of Fresh Founders, a club for young technology entrepreneurs. He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University and is an alumni of the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Tom Alderman serves as Chief Financial Officer of Getaround since November 2022. Mr. Alderman previously served as Vice President, Finance of Getaround from February 2020 to November 2022 and as Senior Director, Finance of Getaround from October 2017 to February 2020. Prior to joining Getaround, Mr. Alderman served as Vice President of Investment Banking at Piper Jaffray, an investment banking firm, from early 2017 to October 2017. From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Alderman served as Vice President of Technology Investment Banking at Credit Suisse, a global investment bank and financial services firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Alderman worked in various investment banking roles at both Piper Jaffray and Credit Suisse.

Sy Fahimi serves as the Chief Operating Officer for North America. Mr. Fahimi brings over 25 years of experience to Getaround with executive roles in Consumer and Enterprise software companies. Prior to joining Getaround, he was the Senior Vice President, Products, for Symphony RetailAI and was a Member of the Executive Team as well as an Operating Partner at Symphony Technology Group. Mr. Fahimi also held various Vice President positions at Yahoo, including serving as the Head of Yahoo’s Advertising Products globally. He was a founder and Chief Executive Officer of DocSpera, a venture backed healthcare tech company where he currently serves as Chairman. He also has served as an advisor, investor and board member to several technology enabled start-ups including Mint (Intuit), Oportun and Connexity. Mr. Fahimi earned an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves on the board of the Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, CA.

Spencer Jackson serves as General Counsel and Secretary of Getaround. Prior to his role at Getaround, Jackson served as Vice President,General Counsel, and Secretary at Ooma, Inc., a cloud-based provider of communications and connected services. He was also a corporate and intellectual property transactions attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, an international law firm, and worked as an attorney for Intel Capital, the venture-investing arm of Intel Corporation, during 2010 while on a secondment from Orrick. Mr. Jackson is admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a registered patent attorney. Mr. Jackson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master’s degree in Geophysics from Stanford University, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.