Home News Solutions Projects About Join us Contact EST ENG About Management board Partnership Quality Management Careers Press kit About Ridango is an international technology company that provides market-leading transit solutions and services. Ridango delivers turnkey projects or separate solutions and services for real-time information and state of the art ticketing solutions for transportation agencies and companies. History: Ridango was incorporated in 2009 (previously known as UnitedTickets) by private investors in Tallinn, Estonia. Ridango is a spin-off company from Estonian Certification Centre that is Estonia's primary and currently the only certification authority, providing certificates for authentication and digital signing to Estonian ID Cards. Certification Centre is owned by large Scandinavian banks (SEB Bank, Swedbank) and telecommunication companies (Telia Sonera Group). Therefore, Ridango history goes back to 2004 when Certification Center started working on ID-card based ticketing solutions, which was deployed in the city of Tallinn and Tartu in Estonia. Important steps in the history of Ridango: 2009 Separation of ticketing arm from Certification Center, Ridango incorporated 2010 Ridango won the future ticketing solution in the City of Tallinn 2010 Custom developed online ticketing validators launched 2011 Partnership with TriNorth Holding AB for Sweden 2012 Entering Swedish market, ticketing solution for Gotland Region, Sweden 2012 Unique one of its kind tablet based drivers console and POS solution 2012 MasterCard Vendor agreement made 2013 Ridango merged with WebPartner, majority of Estonian intercity and municipality ticketing solutions offered by Ridango 2013 Ridango invests to Reserbus.mx to sell tickets in Mexico 2013 Multi-operators multi-company based connected e-wallet launched for ticketing 2014 QR ticketing solutions launched 2014 Dedicated mobile app launched for mobile tickets, ticket purchases and real-time information 2014 Real-time passenger information systems launched 2014 Ridango participates in MaterCard StartPath accelerator in Ireland for payment services in Transit Back Management board Ridango management team consist of highly experienced team of professionals and entrepreneurs with proven track record in the public transportation services and operations. Their collective knowhow and experience has led Ridango to become one of the most successful new transit services provider in the industry. Ain Järv - CEO and Chairman of the management board ain@ridango.com Ain Järv is the founding CEO of Ridango and is responsible for HW / SW Development and Projects Execution side of Ridango. Previously Ain served as the CEO of Estonian National Certification Center, that it is Estonia's primary and currently the only certification authority, providing certificates for authentication and digital signing to Estonian ID Cards. Ain is engineering graduate from Tallinn Technical University. Erki Lipre - Business Manager and member of the board erki@ridango.com Erki is responsible for Marketing and Sales and Operations of Ridango. Previously Erki served as the CIO of Baltic States for ABB Group as well as Head of Marketing and Sales for ABB Group in Estonia. He ha also worked as management consultant at Ernst & Young in Estonia and Spain. Erki is international business management graduate from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus. Ado Are - Development manager and member of the board ado@ridango.com Ado leads development and project execution in Ridango and oversees all new projects that we implement. Ado was running and co-founded previously company named Wepartner OÜ in Estonia. He worked with majority of Estonian municipalities on county ticketing solutions. Webpartner OÜ merged with Ridango in 2013. OTHER KEY CONTACTS: Argo Verk - Sales Manager argo@ridango.com Argo oversees ticketing and real-time passenger information sales at Ridango. Argo has previously founded and led a company that was focused on ferry ticket sales for transport companies in Estonia. Marko Uustalu - Head of IT Development marko@ridango.com Marko manages Ridango's software development team. SUPERVISORY BOARD Herty Tammo - Chairman of the Board (Kauffman Fellow, Holds number of Supervisory Board Positions from manufacturing to IT) Jevgeni Kabanov - Member of the Supervisory Board (day-to-day job: Founder and CEO of ZeroTurnaround) Kalle Vaalma - Member of the Supervisory Board ( day-to-day job: Director of Business Development at Nets) Argo Verk - Member of the Supervisory Board (day-to-day job: Sales Manager at Ridango) Back Partnership Ridango is open and working on many partnerships in various markets. We are in constant discussions with different partners in the value chain from both sides – sales and procurement. We value partners that share the same vision in the transit market, which should become easier, more customer friendly and open to all stakeholders. If you are looking to become our sales partner or operations partner in your local market, please contact info@ridango.com. Quality Management Ridango has ISO 9001:2008 certification and audited by Bureau Veritas. ISO certification covers "Programming, development, sales, operating of ticketing and real-time information systems and payment solutions.". Ridango provides competitive and high quality hardware and software solutions, system integrations and related services. Our products reach their competitiveness through thorough and devoted management principles, regular research & development process and daily integrated communication and improvement processes with our partners and suppliers. Quality principle: Ridango is devoted to offer high quality products and services with on-time delivery that are in meet and exceed the expectations by our customers. Back Careers Ridango is rapidly growing and also employing new talents. If you are ready to contribute and work with some of the brightest minds in one of the fastest growing transit solutions providing company in the region then we are happy to hear from you. See "Join us" page for more information. Back Press kit Please download the press kit below. For further information, arrange photography or schedule an interview, please contact Erki Lipre, Ridango Business Manager and Member of the Management Board (E-mail: erki@ridango.com). Boilerplate Ridango is an international technology company that provides market-leading transit solutions and services. Ridango delivers turnkey projects or separate solutions and services for real-time information and state of the art token based ticketing solutions for transportation agencies and companies. Ridango was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Estonia, Tallinn. Ridango logos: Ridango Logo Horisontal Ridango Logo Vertical Ridango has developed solutions since 2009 and is rapidly expanding in Nordic regions. Back Ridango Home News Solutions Projects About Join us Contact Get in touch © Ridango AS | Pärnu mnt 139E, Tallinn 11317, ESTONIA | info@ridango.com |