Community Improvement & Capacity Building
Covesa
SAN RAMON, CA
Total revenue
$1.8M
Total expenses
$1.4M
Net assets
$347K
Grants received
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EIN
263457544
Tax year
2024
Mission
Covesa is an open, collaborative and impactful technology alliance; accelerating the full potential of connected vehicles.
Programs
2 programs
Covesa continued its semi-annual all member meetings in april and october of 2024. These events resulted in roughly 80 organizations and an average of 275 people in attendance at each. Both business-level and technical presentations were made from roughly 70 speakers. While the event was not executed until january 2025, covesa also prepared for a significant showcase and reception event at the ces 2025. This involved contacting roughly 120 organizations for participatioin and sponsorship. Roughly 85 organizations agreed to participate and/or sponsor the event.
Covesa continued to actively align with other standards development and collaborative organizations including w3c, autosar, soaffe, jaspar, and eclipse sdv. The primary goal of this collaboration was to push adoption of the vss open standard into other automotive organizations and consortia. Through this collaboration, the benefits of a publicly available vss were represented to roughly 1000 automotive industry particpants, multiple government-funded technology projects, and standards-setting organizations in the us, japan, and europe.
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
12 listed
GERALD SPREITZ
VP/BOARD MEMBER
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8 hrs/wk
DAN NICHOLSON
BOARD MEMBER
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4 hrs/wk
MATT JONES
PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBER
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8 hrs/wk
GRAHAM SMETHURST
CHAIRMAN/BOARD MEMBER
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8 hrs/wk
THOMAS BLOOR
SECRETARY/BOARD MEMBER
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8 hrs/wk
JOHN SERGAKIS
TREASURER/BOARD MEMBER
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8 hrs/wk
HISAO MUNAKATA
BOARD MEMBER
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4 hrs/wk
CHRISTOPH LUDEWIG
BOARD MEMBER
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4 hrs/wk
FLORIAN BAUMANN
BOARD MEMBER
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4 hrs/wk
MONA LEVEACHER
BOARD MEMBER
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4 hrs/wk
GERHARD GROSSBERGER
BOARD MEMBER
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4 hrs/wk
STEVE CRUMB
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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20 hrs/wk
Independent contractors
GLOBAL INVENTURES INC
MANAGEMENT SERVICES
PAUL BOYES LLC
TECHNICAL SERVICES
MICHAEL NUNNERY
MARKETING SERVICES