About us

Xentrans offers award-winning managed services and professional consulting for the conception, procurement, implementation, and support of innovative technology solutions for passenger transportation.

Xenconsult, Inc. dba Xentrans is a privately-held company incorporated in California. We are headquartered in Corte Madera in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Washington D.C., and Canterbury, UK. Established in 2010, Xentrans provides transportation agencies specialized vendor- and solution-agnostic technical and business consulting; procurement and project management; managed services for operations support; and extension-of-staff administrative services across the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe.

Our clients include Amtrak, Altamont Corridor Express, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Caltrain, Capitol Corridor, Eurostar, Sonoma Area Rail Transit, Chicago Metra, LA Metro, Santa Clara VTA, Golden Gate Transit, and All Aboard Florida. Our executive team has extensive transportation technology experience in the US, UK and European markets, having held senior management positions within transit agencies and technology vendors including Amtrak, Metrolink, Moovera, Icomera, and Nomad Digital.

Executive Team

Jim Baker

Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)


Soren Bakken

President & Chief Financial Officer (CFO)



Jeremy Dalton

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)



Alan Rowe

Chief Technical Officer (CTO)



Erika Ehmsen

Customer Experience Officer (CXO)


Colleen Richter

Chief Program Officer (CPO)




Richard Strand

VP, Engineering


Clay Michaels

VP, Support



Angela Ledesma

Director, Operations



Jonathan Hollander

Lead Developer



Dave Palmer

Chairman (Non-Exec)