During the unrest over Uber’s entry into the Belgian market, MacGann found himself cornered by angry taxi drivers while in an Uber car in 2017 at a Brussels train station.
He studied economics and politics at Kingston University in London and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Grenoble, France from 1987 to 1993. He worked for lobbying and public relations firms Brunswick, out of the firm’s offices in London, Paris and New York, and later for Weber Shandwick in the 2000s.
He joined Uber in 2014, taking a significant pay cut to €160,000 a year but was lured to the company with the promise of stock options that were potentially worth millions of euro. Since leaving Uber, he has set up a consultancy business, Moonshot Strategies, near his home in Longford, with older brother, Tom, an engineer, serving as a fellow director.
Something smells wrong in this interview. Quite strange (though Travis would appear to have a super strange tech-bro and rather an unappealing character).
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