Scottsdale-based Envoy America, a ride-sharing program for seniors, is expanding into Tucson as its second market, with other markets being considered in future months.
Cindy Hartin will serve as senior vice president of Operations for Envoy America – Tucson.
Envoy America provides door-to-door service for its riders by having drivers help passengers to the door during a drop-off. Each driver is 50+ in age, and helps the rider get to doctors’ appointments, with grocery shopping, social outings and more.
Founders K. C. Kanaan and Andrew Beran initially developed this service in order to care for their own aging parents, who recently lost the ability to drive and with it, their independence.
“We created Envoy America so that my mom and people like her would never have to worry about where they wanted to go,” said Envoy America CEO and Co-Founder K. C. Kanaan. “We understand that seniors need reliable, safe, door-to-door transportation that comes at a specified time, is affordable, and provides polite, compassionate, professional service, and that’s what we do every single time.”
