Kevin L. Matthews is the Head of Electrification at First Student and is responsible for the strategy that will drive the development and deployment of all electrification initiatives and technologies. First Student is the largest operator of school buses in North America with over 44,000 units in its fleet. Further, First Student is the largest operator of electric school buses with 394 deployed and carrying students with 1,800 more on order.
Kevin has worked in the environment sector for more than 30 years. He has served as the managing director of the sustainability sector at National Strategies, LLC, as well as served as the co-project director of the Clinton Global Initiative EV School Bus project, that demonstrated Total Cost of Ownership of electric units could reach parity with fossil fuel school buses. Kevin holds a BA from Hendrix College and an MPA from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.