Profile: Feysan Lodde – Co-Founder, Owner and Director MV Transportation, Inc.

Feysan Lodde – Co-Founder, Owner and Director MV Transportation, Inc.

Feysan Lodde is a co-founder, owner and director of MV Transportation, Inc., – the largest privately held passenger-transportation contracting firm in the United States.

Ms. Lodde founded the company in 1975 with her husband Alex Lodde, operating a single van, and under her stewardship, MV Transportation, Inc. has attained growth to the extent that it now has over 16,000 employees and earns revenue of more than US$700 million annually. The company’s vehicles vehicles serve public and private passengers both in the United States and Canada.

Lodde is also a philanthropist and is a strong advocate of sharing the benefits of her success with the communities that make it possible. She is a member of several organizations including the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.;Centers for Independent Living, in involved with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and many others.

She is a fierce defender of disability rights – she established the Freedom of Mobility Foundation, a charitable branch of the company with the ongoing goal to increase access to transportation for persons with disabilities and seniors. She was instrumental in MV Transportation, Inc.’s historic volunteer efforts during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and sent 52 vehicles and more than 100 personnel to assist in rescue and recovery operations for more than 2 months.

Lodde has been a recipient of numerous awards including:
– 2011 Entrepreneur Award Winner, 13th Annual Madam C. J. Walker Business and Community Recognition Awards Luncheon (www.onehundredblackwomen.com)
– 2010 History Makers Awards, Powerful Women of the Bay (honoree)
– 2008 East Bay Business Times, Women of Distinction
– 2008 East Bay Business Times, 24 East Bay Women-Led Businesses
– 2009 Mae C. Jemison Award, COMTO Cincinnati Chapter (www.comtocincinnati.com)