SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartDrive Systems, Inc., a global Driver Safety and Risk Management company, announced the appointment of Richard Davidson as Chief Financial Officer.

"Richard's experience in providing financial leadership at IBM and restructuring companies, like Kintera, to position for growth will play a key role in our expansion strategy in the upcoming months," said Greg Drew, CEO of SmartDrive. "Richard's mix of both finance and operations expertise brings financial vigor to our operational efficiency to scale our business in the coming years."

Richard Davidson is finance and operations executive with more than 17 years experience in the technology, professional services, financial services and wireless telecom industries. Davidson, former CFO of IBM's $2.5 billion consumer division, was named SmartDrive System's Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, he was the CFO of Kintera Inc., a publicly traded software as a service (Saas) company, focused on providing fundraising tools for the non-profit industry. Prior to Kintera, Davidson was the CFO of inCode Telecom Group, Inc and spent 10 years as a finance executive at IBM.

About SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

Based in San Diego, SmartDrive Systems mitigates risk by monitoring the safe operation of vehicle fleets worldwide and assesses liability in collisions. By combining sight and sound, event analysis and driver coaching, SmartDrive's automated event recorder (AER) technology and associated web-based service reduces vehicle damages, workers' compensation and personal injury costs by over 50 percent. Customers include enterprise with fleets: from small- to mid-size fleets (e.g. motor coaches, ambulances, and taxi companies) to large 500+ fleets (e.g. school bus, utility, waste management, and transit companies). For more information, please go to www.smartdrive.net. Website: http://www.smartdrive.net/