Instant Alert: You know Travis Kalanick. Meet the 23 other power players of Uber

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   You know Travis Kalanick. Meet the 23 other power players of Uber by Biz Carson on Jan 29, 2016, 1:43 PM Advertisement Travis Kalanick may be the public face of Uber, but he hasn't built the company by himself.  Like any chief executive, Kalanick leans heavily on his team and direct reports to manage all parts of the business from people operations internally to putting out regulatory fires externally.  As Uber faces challenges on all fronts in 2016, here's who is leading the charge internally to make transportation "as reliable as running water." SEE ALSO: The 21 most innovative startups in tech Ryan Graves was the company's first employee and first CEO. When Graves responded "heres a tip. email me:)" to a tweet about a startup job, there was no way of knowing Uber would become the $62 billion company it is today.  Graves joined and became its first CEO and general manager from February 2010 until December 2010. At that point, Graves was "super pumped" that Kalanick (who was "frickin' pumped") would take over the role.  Since then Graves has been in charge of leading Uber's international expansion and growth as SVP and Head of Global Operations. He's also on Uber's board. Austin Geidt is in charge of expanding Uber everywhere. Joining the ride-hailing startup after battling a drug addiction, Geidt was the fourth hire at Uber and has been with the company ever since. "I'm so proud of the work my team has done at Uber and the work I've done at Uber. But it's not the proudest thing I've done, right? I'm more proud of being sober," she said at a Fortune conference. "I just have perspective." As Head of Global Expansion, she's taken Uber from one city to more than 100 and plots on a map where Uber is going next. If that wasn't enough of a job, she also oversees the PRO team, Uber's equivalent to business ops, that's in charge of streamlining the company. One of her special projects is Uber's 1 Million Women initiative to sign up one million women to the platform by 2020. Thuan Pham makes sure the Uber app stays up and running. As Uber's Chief Technology Officer, Thuan Pham has been leading Uber's technology staff from a team of 40 to more than 1,200 engineers. It hasn't been without its challenges — a report from The Information said Pham was "deathly afraid" of the consumer app going down as it grows — but Pham is universally described as the inspirational leader Uber's technology team needs. See the rest of the story at Business Insider   Share the latest business news with your network: Email sent to:   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011