Safe Rides Unlimited

Like everything else in our lives, if we help you plan your nights ahead of time, we can help you avoid drinking and driving. Safe Rides Unlimited (SRU) is a charitable 501 (c) 3 organization that provides realistic and effective safe ride solutions to college students and the general public!

The primary goal of Safe Rides Unlimited is to save peoples’ lives. Society suffers many ills, and Safe Rides Unlimited strives to reduce the epidemic of drunk-driving to a near non-existent state. Drunk-Driving has taken its toll on each of our lives , whether, we’ve been an innocent bystander or passenger in a drunk -driven car or lost friends or colleagues to drunk-driving accidents. No matter where you live or what your lifestyle, the epidemic of drunk-driving affects each one of us. Our organization provides a solution at the source. We are unique in our efforts, and by embracing bars and clubs and offering them realistic solutions for their patrons, Safe Rides’ rapid growth is proof that we are heading in the right direction. We are encouraged to create realistic alternatives for law-abiding venues and the hospitality-seeking public.Safe Rides Unlimited evolved from the Syn3 Transport method, both having saved more lives in the past six months than any other committee involved in such a cause.

By implementing the Safe Rides Programs, WE WILL SAVE LIVES! Safe Rides Unlimited provides the most realistic and efficient model for reducing drunk-driving statistics.

“Drunk driving is not a disease or a health problem that cannot be cured, it’s a simple matter of choice and available options.” Moe Sattar/Founder

Public speaking on college campuses and advertising ( i.e.billboards, tv commercials, radio spots ) help to raise awareness, but they do not put an end to the drunk-driving dilemma. The problem is the lack of real alternatives available to the public. Safe Rides Unlimited gives people a real-life option to drunk-driving, and SRU in turn enlists the cooperation of the nightlife/hospitality industry and encourages working together towards a common goal .

Our goal is to eliminate drunk driving once and for all from our list of “causes of death”. Only with everyones participation will this be possible. Here is your chance to make a difference; do it for your family, your friends, your colleagues, and for yourself. Be pro-active and get involved!

Amanat M. Sattar | Founder

Amanat Moe Sattar (Moe) discovered his entrepreneurial skills at a very young age. At thirteen he had established a food serving network at his family’s business. At twenty he established a web based business serving needs of club goers. One key for his success was the implementation of physical services into web based concepts.

Mr. Sattar through his dealings with the hospitality industry realized a serious need for providing safety for bar/club goers and teaching responsible drinking. It became a passion of his life when. Mr. Amanat lost two of his friends to drunk driving.

He founded SYN3 Transport to provide safe rides to students. Thus the very purpose of this transportation company was to specifically provide safe rides to students who frequent bars and clubs.

After successful results from Syn3 Transport, Mr. Sattar decided to bring these life saving services to the masses and he, therefore, founded Safe Rides Unlimited. Today his main focus is to make sure every person knows that responsibility is the key before anyone consume any alcoholic beverages.

Mr. Sattar is still striving hard to complete his college degree while so much involved in all of these entrepreneurial activities.

Wasif S Imam

Wasif S Imam has over 35 years of progressive responsibility and expertise in developing financial strategies, business planning and closing successful merger and acquisition business deals. He is a founding board member of Safe Rides Unlimited (SRU), a non-profit organization headquartered in Pine Brook, New Jersey.

He was Chief Financial Officer of MarketXT Holdings Corporation from 1998 to 2004 located in New York City and over 35 locations all around United States and England. MarketXT Holdings Corporation was formerly known as Tradescape Corporation, the third largest day-trading firm conducting electronic trades in equities on all the major US stock exchanges including NASDAQ. He was instrumental in attracting a major capital infusion into the Corporation in 1999 from Softbank of Japan. He played a key role in the merger and sale of Tradescape Corporation’s three subsidiaries to E*Trade Financial Group for $ 280 million in 2002.

Prior to that in 1994, he was one of the four founding partners of Potomac Associates International Ltd., a consulting firm headquartered in Washington D.C with three overseas offices in Japan, Malaysia and Pakistan. He has brought in several major international projects into the firm and arranged cross-border financing for the projects in the areas of health-care, agriculture and manufacturing/engineering thru his global relationships both in the financial industry and the government sector.

Mr. Imam in 1992 conducted successful negotiations in Tokyo with top Japanese government officials and business leaders to restructure foreign debt of a Latin American country with Japan. He was at the time Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance, for Berkeley Securities, Inc., an equity and bond securities trading firm at Wall Street. He participated in and successfully completed five IPO’s for the firm.

Mr. Imam spent almost 20 years with PepsiCo, Inc. and held senior level positions in the Finance department of the Company from 1967 to 1986. For ten years (1976-1986) he was the Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo (Japan) Ltd. in Tokyo, subsequent to his transfer from PepsiCo’s world headquarters in Purchase, NY. He was responsible for the financial management of PepsiCo’s North Pacific Region covering Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, a $300 million Pepsi operation at the time. He managed and supervised 3 Controllers, 1 EDP manager, 1 Personnel and Office manager and an overall staff of 25 spread over three countries of PepsiCo’s North Pacific Region headquartered in Tokyo.

He helped establish the first PepsiCo plant in Shen Zhen, across Hong Kong. Following this model, PepsiCo established several additional Pepsi bottling plants in mainland China. He raised for PepsiCo $ 100 million in Tokyo through innovative yen financing covering foreign exchange exposure at the lowest possible cost to the Company.

Mr. Imam graduated in 1962 from Karachi University in Pakistan and earned a B.A. degree in Accounting and Auditing. He received his MBA in Business Management and Finance in 1967 from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ.

Mr. Imam is a proud father of two married children and has 5 adorable grand-children

Jeffrey C. Davis

Jeffrey C. Davis has more than forty years of experience and successful results encompassing domestic and international business, consulting, government service, academic appointments, and not for profit enterprises. His consulting company has provided technical and other writing services, strategic planning, marketing and sales, financial advice, international public relations, promotion, project development and trade services to companies, organizations, and countries.

During President Ronald Reagan’s Administration he was invited on a Special Trade Mission to Saudi Arabia and Algeria sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce and The White House. He represented the American business sector on behalf of the U.S. Government at the Council of Europe Conference in Strasbourg, France. He also created, planned, organized and implemented the Friendship Forest Park Program in Algeria on behalf of the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Forest Service, and the American people.

Mr. Davis was a Senior Consultant to Hill and Knowlton, Inc., working out of the Seattle, Washington and Washington, DC offices. One of his several assignments was as a member of the Free Kuwait Committee, a domestic and international campaign established to assist President Bush and the Allies during the Gulf War.

While living in Malaysia and Vietnam he arranged financing as well as technical and project management services (through a large, European construction firm) for a major cement plant project development program in Vietnam; researched and wrote an extensive Marketing Plan for a physician group in the U.S. interested in introducing state-of-the-art medical technology and non-invasive cardiovascular health care services to the Asian marketplace; and arranged for a sizable investment and private sector financing for the inventors of a Thin Flat Matrix/CRT Monitor Display product.

During the late 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s, Mr. Davis’s consulting activities included: a bold agricultural wheat growing farm project in the desert in North Africa; organizing a significant oil cargo shipment for a U.S company and a member country of OPEC; writing the Marketing Plan for a U.S. real estate company responsible for an industrial, commercial and residential project in China; completing a Feasibility Study and Foreign Recruitment Program for a U.S. health care company; securing a contract with a major U.S. Port for a Dutch company to develop a state-of-the-art Navigational Safety Model Program; arranging for and participating in high-level briefings for a European company with U.S. Department of Defense officials relating to former Soviet Union energy issues; initiating and completing the Consular Office consolidation program for Kobe/Osaka, Japan; managing the advertising campaign for the largest Ford automobile dealership in Northern California; and implementing the first pre-paid mental health care program in America.

Mr. Davis worked for the California Legislature, and was responsible for the analysis and reporting of the Welfare, Medicaid and Medicare budgets and related legislation. His appointment as Special Assistant to Governor Ronald Reagan included research, speech writing, contributions to the Series of Creative Studies, and special project assignments. He was appointed by the Governor as the Assistant Director of the California State Department of Social Welfare, the second largest department in the State Government.