new york, April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nexar, the real-world intelligence platform for the age of physical AI, today announced the appointment of Jen Vescio to its board of directors as physical AI moves from controlled pilots to commercial mobility operations that move people and goods every day.
Nexar, the real-world intelligence platform for the age of physical AI, announced the appointment of Jen Vescio to its board of directors as physical AI moves from controlled pilots to commercial mobility operations that move people and goods every day. (PR News Photo/Nexar)
Competence is no longer an open question. Distribution is what separates advanced AI systems from deployed AI systems. It’s about incorporating predictive safety and real-world intelligence into rideshare, delivery, and fleet operations, where millions of decisions are made every day. Scaling this requires not only model performance, but also commercial infrastructure.
“I have spent my career at the intersection of buy, build or partner strategy and decision-making that helps platforms scale,” Vescio said. “What attracted me to Nexar is that they don’t just build technology. They understand the unique set of data assets they are in, and they understand how to build moats with other providers within the physical AI stack that are focused on building the commercial infrastructure needed for physical AI to emerge in the real world.”
Vescio brings more than 20 years of experience growing platform and partnership businesses at the heart of mobility, technology and commerce. She is the principal of Awestruck Ventures, an advisory firm specializing in buy, sell-side, and operational GTM strategies. Jen is a Swiss Army knife operator, executive coach, and dealmaker who has served on the boards of public and private companies including Newbury Street Acquisition Corp., Offline Ventures, TeamSnap, and the PGA TOUR. She most recently served as Chief Business Development Officer at Uber, where she led the company’s strategic initiatives, global partnerships, and global commercial expansion across mobility, delivery, and new business lines (including self-driving). Earlier in his career, he held senior business development and strategy positions at Verizon, Disney/ESPN, CBS, Yahoo!, and eBay/Paypal.
Vescio joins Nexar’s Board of Directors as the company extends real-world intelligence to rideshare networks, commercial fleets, AV developers, insurance companies, and public agencies – operators who need physical AI to work in production environments. This appointment follows the recent release of BADAS 2.0, Nexar’s family of crash prediction models that span cloud GPU to edge CPU deployments with an average accuracy of 99.4%. Enterprise customers such as Waymo, Lyft, IBM, and NVIDIA use Nexar’s platform to train, validate, and deploy AI systems in real-world situations.
“Physical AI isn’t just about model quality; it’s about being able to deploy it at scale across real-world operations,” said Nexar CEO Zach Greenberger. “Jen has been building how the platform really grows, from partnerships to distribution to revenue. That experience will be invaluable as we move from proving what’s possible to taking control of how it unfolds.”
Vescio’s appointment follows the additions of AI pioneer Yann LeCun and former Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, and expands the composition of the board designed for where physical AI is being deployed today: in research, cities, and commercial systems that shape how intelligence reaches everyday life.
About Nexar
Nexar is the real-world intelligence platform for the age of physical AI, the independent verification infrastructure behind every machine that claims to know the road. A network of 350,000 cameras captures 100 million miles of real-world driving each month, creating the world’s largest confidential archive of naturalistic safety-critical events. That’s 60 million edge case videos, 10 billion miles of ground truth, and 45 petabytes of verified road intelligence covering 94% of U.S. roads.
BADAS 2.0, Nexar’s family of incident prediction models, achieved an average accuracy of 99.4% and ranked #1 in all four major benchmarks. Nexar does not compete with any company, so the platform simultaneously serves Waymo, Lyft, IBM, NVIDIA, and government infrastructure clients. Independence is not a differentiator. It’s a product.
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