An industry leader in group travel & bus rental service, Bus.com welcomes Maxie Lafleur as the new Board Member & CEO of Bus.com. Prior in 2019, Maxie joined Bus.com as the company’s CFO. Since Kyle Boulay, the former CEO & Co-Founder, stepdown, the board has come to a decision to appoint Maxie to fill in. Kyle will continue to hold her share in Bus.com while the board is pepping to bring new transformation to the company offerings. Having Maxie as the new lead, the leadership team is marching forward with an upright notion to revise the offerings, integrating disruptive technologies to sharpen its scaling abilities and also in making a potential acquisition.

“I am honored to lead Bus.com as Chief Executive Officer and I look forward to working closely with our exceptional senior leadership team. We feel confident the bus charter industry will recover and rebound from this setback. We will emerge more resilient through the advancements of our technology and the tough and strategic decisions we have made and will continue to make,” says Maxie.

Maxie’s extensive experience in the digitalization, scaling and business transformation has gained her an easy passageway to success in the corporate world.This young influencer in the B2B sector also holds robust expertise in business expansion with Merger & Acquisition (M&A) through joint ventures within large companies.

We feel confident the bus charter industry will recover and rebound from this setback. We will emerge more resilient through the advancements of our technology and the tough and strategic decisions we have made and will continue to make

Her role as the CFO in Bus.com was instrumental, improving the company’s unit economics and redefining the position of the company in the competitive market. As the CEO of Bus.com, Maxie’s international contacts in Europe & Asia will be of immense help to gain global competency in the industry.

“We are sensitive to the challenges our bus partners across North America are facing. They are in most part small operators that risk losing their livelihood because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, we have been compelled to act and have shifted a significant portion of our resources to actively support their families and them by providing advice, information and guidance as they make difficult decisions, renegotiate their financial obligations and navigate the many government programs and subsidies. I am also very optimistic about the future of this industry and to work on the next chapter with Maxie,” said Wolf Kohlberg, Co-Founder & COO, Bus.com.

Bus.com has played an important role in compounding the largely unorganized sector of bus charter and group travel industry across North America. Viewing the possibilities the company can bring to the industry, it was granted a bulk of $15 million as a Series B funding, which enabled it to hire more leading heads to improve its services. Further, Bus.com is launching ‘the Bus Angels Program’, an initiative to support its bus partners across North America for a quick recovery from the COVID pandemic setback.