Naren Shaam

Naren Shaam, CEO and Founder, is one of the leading European tech entrepreneurs, pioneering a revolution in the way we travel. Born in Bangalore, Shaam studied engineering in India and worked in the auto-industry as Global Product Manager for a multi-million dollar business, in the US. Following this he won a place at Harvard where he completed his MBA.

A passionate traveller, it was while backpacking around Europe in 2010 after completing his studies that Shaam first became aware of the need to improve the transport booking system on the continent; and the inspiration behind GoEuro was born. Although the trip was a fantastic experience, Shaam found he was spending too much time planning the trips rather than enjoying the travel. There was no centralised, clear platform, to compare train, bus, rail, and car hire options, in your mother language. The travel operators were not all presented in one search engine, and each country had a different way of showing data and managing user experience, making it a very challenging process, in need of change.

Following a couple of years spent in the private sector on Wall Street, after Harvard, Shaam looked again at the situation in Europe, finding it had not improved. Seeing the opportunity to innovate the travel sector, in 2012, he quit his job, packed his bags and took all his learning and insight to found GoEuro.