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Ed Cleary
Principal Member of Odyssey Transportation, LLC.
Mr. Edward Cleary has been actively involved in the ground transportation industry since 1975. Mr. Cleary has owned and operated a yellow medallion cab as well as a radio dispatched luxury sedan. Mr. Cleary served for 10 years as a member of the board of directors for a major Black Car company. During his tenure, he held the responsibilities for administration, IT and Call Center operations.
He was also in charge of the design and implementation of the first computer aided dispatch system in 1987 in use with the black car market. Under his guidance, over 500 vehicles received mobile computer terminals and the associated radio equipment needed to run the computer terminals.
Mr. Cleary was a pioneer in the Black Car field with his co-founding of The Hub Connection (THC) in 1996. THC was the first centralized call center in the New York Tri-State area to employ the “Next Available Car” management tool for multiple black car fleets. THC allowed large corporate black car users to electronically connect through this central call center and get availability to multiple black car groups that they were contracted with. This concept reduced wait times for vehicles, controlled usage and costs throughout their entire company.
In 2002, Mr. Cleary co-founded Odyssey Transportation Group, LLC. By including the tools used in The Hub Connection, he was able to form a powerful black car company that catered to the idea of superior customer service and cost containment through advanced technology.
Mr. Cleary is a graduate of FIT and an A.S. in Business Merchandising
Kathi Markou
Principal Member of Odyssey Transportation, LLC.
Ms. Markou is a managing member of Odyssey Transportation Group, LLC. Ms. Markou owned and operated Odyssey Limousines, Inc. for 14 years. Odyssey Limousines was awarded "Touring and Talent Limousine Company of the Year" by Performance Magazine in 1985. Currently, Ms. Markou is responsible for all administration, sales and fleet, and driver management.
Ms. Markou has developed relationships with managing directors of Fortune 500 companies. She is also directly involved with customer service and follow-up work involving Odyssey's account base.
Ms. Markou sold Odyssey Limousine in 1994 to join the luxury sedan industry as a sales representative for major black car companies in the New York Metro area. Ms. Markou established herself as one of the top sales representatives in the black car industry before leaving to start The Hub Connection.
In 1996, Ms. Markou co-founded The Hub Connection. The Hub Connection was the pioneer company that incorporated a ground transportation clearing-house in the New York marketplace. Mr. Cleary and Kathi Markou came together with an idea for a call center to represent free market sedans and limousines that grew into a multi million dollar company within a year.
In 2004, THC’s reputation and overwhelming demand for service developed in the purchase of The Company Car, which today, operates a fleet of sedans, SUVs, coach and mini-buses, vans and limousines.
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