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Raising $100,000+ Biking for Autism Awareness, NY-Based Shipping Company Helps Give Young Adults with Autism Strong Opportunities for Successful Careers

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NEW YORK, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MTS Logistics, a NYC-based freight forwarder and shipping company, announced this week it had raised over $100,000 for Spectrum Works, a New Jersey non-profit organization that provides job training, workforce development, and career opportunities to young adults with autism. The funds were raised through the 16th Annual Bike Tour with MTS for Autism event, a landmark event in shipping and logistics that has been held annually over the past 16 years and has collectively raised over $700,000 for autism awareness, while helping place students into jobs with prominent American companies that include IKEA, Rent the Runway, Walgreens, Old Navy, Sesame Street Workshop, and American Dream.

On Saturday, June 13th, dozens of participants that included logistics, shipping, and business professionals, their families, children, and friends biked from lower Manhattan to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, and back to Manhattan after enjoying brunch. With the nearly 26-mile round trip, the bikers were part of a landmark effort within the logistics industry to amplify and support autism awareness and acceptance in the workplace.

Numerous companies including shipping giants Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Company, Hapag-Lloyd, and CMA CGM, as well as companies such as printing company FM Expressions, non-profit Turkish Philanthropy Funds, logistics companies Gepax Group, Manuchar and Bergen Logistics, trucking company SunteckTTS, global air carrier Turkish Airlines, and resin producer Osterman, sponsored the event, helping raise the six-figure sum for autism awareness.

The annual bike tour event is the largest of its kind in the logistics industry – and MTS Logistics remains determined to cement the legacy of logistics positively affecting the lives of young autistic adults. When MTS Logistics President Sedat Saka first partnered with Spectrum Works years ago, MTS sought to bring the logistics industry onboard to help young adults with autism be trained and placed into jobs that could turn into successful careers that last a lifetime. Every student Spectrum Works has worked with to increase employment for autistic young adults means a life and family that is changed for the better.

MTS Logistics President Sedat Saka noted how the logistics industry was making major progress on autism awareness and employment with the annual event:

“For the past 16 years, MTS Logistics has spearheaded this incredible effort to grow autism awareness and ensure that young adults with autism. I always felt that the logistics industry was a great fit to promote autism acceptance in the workplace, and over a decade and half, MTS Logistics and the logistics industry have helped affect so many families by helping to support Spectrum Works and provide jobs to young autistic adults. We are all positively affected for the better when lives are changed for good. With the industry’s biggest traits being attention to detail, reliability, focus, and consistency, autistic individuals are positioned for success in logistics. We are so proud of the more than $700,000 raised since the event’s inception and look forward to continuing these efforts.”

The real-world impact on young adults and their families was evident during the event, as bikers and participants listed intently to several young adults who have received Spectrum Works’ training and support and have been placed into positions that include assembly line logistics, packaging, fulfillment, and more with some of America’s largest companies.

Spectrum Works Founder and CEO Ann Marie Sullivan said:

“Thank you to MTS Logistics, for spearheading the effort to raise autism awareness and supporting Spectrum Works through this annual event. I want to thank all of our sponsors, bikers, volunteers, and supporters for making this year’s event successful. Raising over $700,000 since MTS Logistics first started this event sixteen years ago is a huge achievement, and I’ve seen first-hand how the logistics industry is driving positive change for families of autistic individuals by supporting Spectrum Works and helping them start careers in a variety of industries. 1 in 31 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, but only around 15% of autistic adults are employed, so these employment opportunities make a huge impact.”

MTS Logistics had some fun surprises for participants, too, with two round-trip Turkish Airlines tickets to anywhere the airline flies, as well as four spa treatments and other surprises raffled off for lucky participants. With a healthy brunch, free bike rental and jersey, and beautiful weather, it was a perfect day to make positive change.

About MTS Logistics, Inc.

MTS Logistics, Inc. is a New York-based international freight forwarder in business for over 26 years, providing fast and reliable logistics services to companies of all sizes around the world. MTS is a leader in bringing cutting-edge technology to the logistics industry with its innovative all-in-one shipping software. The company has spearheaded several Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives within the shipping industry, including an annual bike tour event where it raises money for autism awareness and workforce training.

About Spectrum Works:

Spectrum Works is a (501)(c)(3) designated non-profit organization located in Secaucus, New Jersey dedicated to providing job training and employment opportunities for autistic high school students and other young adults on the spectrum. It was founded by Ann Marie Sullivan, an entrepreneur with two decades of experience in building and managing start-up organizations, to address a critical disconnect between an 85% unemployment rate for autistic individuals and their value to the workforce as employees with inherent skills and abilities. In 2013, she partnered with Robert Butters, founder of Green Distribution and FM Expressions, to make the Spectrum Works vision a reality. 

Contact: Gerard Boucher, MTS Logistics, Inc., gb@boucherco.com

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Mercuryo Recognised with Great Place to Work® Certification, Highlighting Strength of Its Remote-First Fintech Culture

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Certification reflects overwhelmingly positive employee feedback and a consistently high-trust culture across Mercuryo’s international team 

LONDON, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo has been certified as a Great Place to Work across five key European markets. The recognition is based entirely on confidential employee feedback gathered through an independent survey administered by Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture.

Employees across all five certified country locations rated Mercuryo above the global Great Place to Work benchmark, with country-level scores of Spain (92%), Croatia (91%), Serbia (89%), the United Kingdom (88%), and Cyprus (86%), reflecting consistently positive employee experiences across the organisation.

The achievement is particularly significant given Mercuryo’s remote-first operating model. With employees based across more than 30 countries, the company has focused on building a connected, high-trust culture that enables teams to collaborate effectively across borders, time zones and disciplines while maintaining the flexibility and autonomy that define the modern workplace.

Yulia Bogomolova, Chief Human Resource Officer at Mercuryo, said, “Building a strong culture is an ongoing commitment. We work hard to ensure every employee feels empowered, supported, and connected to our mission, regardless of location. These results demonstrate the strength of that commitment and the exceptional people who make Mercuryo what it is.”

Ashna Vaghela, Chief Customer Officer at Mercuryo, said, “There is a strong culture of ownership and trust at Mercuryo. People are encouraged to contribute ideas, take initiative, and help shape the future of the company.” Another added: “Despite working across different countries and time zones, there is a genuine sense of teamwork and transparency that makes Mercuryo a rewarding place to work.”

Today, Mercuryo’s team of more than 300 professionals supports a network of over 200+ B2B partnerships and serves more than seven million users worldwide. The company leverages a range of modern tools and technologies across operations, analytics, marketing, and product development to help teams work more efficiently, accelerate innovation, and focus on high-impact initiatives, while maintaining strong human oversight and accountability throughout.

The certification marks an important milestone for Mercuryo as it continues to expand its global team and strengthen its position as a leading provider of payments infrastructure connecting traditional and digital finance. As Mercuryo continues its global expansion, the company is actively recruiting talent across a range of positions including: product, engineering, compliance, marketing, and business development functions.

About Mercuryo 

Mercuryo is a leading payment infrastructure platform in the digital token space. Standing out in the decentralized ecosystem by enhancing payment use case growth and on-chain integration, Mercuryo’s intuitive and robust solutions are powering the next generation of Web3 payment services. Mercuryo’s innovative payment products such as Spend bridge the gap between TradFi, Web2 and Web3. Mercuryo is the proud partner of leading pillars in the digital token economy such as Trust Wallet, Ledger and MetaMask, along with Revolut, Mastercard and Visa. Driven by an evolving product suite, Mercuryo is expanding further and continuing to innovate with a diversified stack of payment services. 

Learn more at: https://mercuryo.io/ 

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Trupeer AI Appoints Former UiPath APAC President & CEO Raghu Subramanian to Accelerate UK Enterprise Growth

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LONDON, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trupeer AI, the workflow knowledge layer for teams and AI agents, today announced the appointment of Raghu Subramanian as President and Chief Business Officer as the company accelerates its expansion in the United Kingdom, one of Europe’s most knowledge-intensive enterprise markets. Backed by RTP Global, Salesforce Ventures and trusted by more than 50,000 teams in over 100 countries, Trupeer is strengthening its leadership team to scale adoption across enterprises, financial and professional services firms, and technology-enabled business services companies.

The United Kingdom represents a strategic priority for Trupeer. London’s financial services and professional services sectors rank among the most compliance-documented, knowledge-intensive industries anywhere in the world, where process knowledge is a regulatory artifact, not a nice-to-have. UK enterprises are also among Europe’s largest buyers of global business services, operating capability centres across multiple countries, placing them squarely on the demand side of the cross-border knowledge distribution challenge Trupeer is built to solve. For organisations managing teams and processes across geographies, the ability to capture knowledge once and deploy it in 120+ languages is operational infrastructure, not a feature. The depth of this opportunity is already visible in Trupeer’s deployments: a FTSE 100 company used the platform to train thousands of employees across a multi-country IT transformation, saving over 9,000 hours in the process.

Raghu joins from a distinguished career at the forefront of enterprise automation. As a founding member of the management team at UiPath, he was part of the core executive team that helped build the company into a $35+ billion NYSE-listed enterprise. He established UiPath’s India operations in 2016 and later served as President & CEO for India and APAC. Bringing over 25 years of enterprise technology leadership, Raghu has built and scaled enterprise businesses across global markets, with deep expertise in automation, business process management, and enterprise AI adoption. Prior to joining UiPath, he served as CTO of EXL Service.

At Trupeer, he will lead the company’s next phase of commercial expansion, with a sharp focus on UK-headquartered enterprises and the demand side of European global capability centre networks. Trupeer’s platform transforms unstructured, multimodal workflows into SOPs, guides, training assets, studio-quality videos, and continuously updated, AI-ready context for employees and intelligent agents, delivering knowledge transfer in 120+ languages.

Shivali Goyal, CEO and Co-Founder, Trupeer AI, said, “Raghu has spent decades helping organisations adopt and scale transformative technologies and brings deep experience in building enterprises globally. Having seen first-hand the challenges enterprises face in organisational knowledge and agentic AI enablement, Raghu immediately resonated with our vision and the momentum Trupeer has built globally. His expertise will help us strengthen our commercial capabilities, deepen partnerships, and unlock the next phase of growth at Trupeer.”

Raghu Subramanian, President and Chief Business Officer, Trupeer AI, said, “Enterprises have long struggled to get real value from AI, and the reason is fragmented context. The knowledge that makes AI useful sits trapped in people’s heads and scattered across tools. In the agentic AI era, where agents are only as good as the context they run on, that gap becomes the difference between AI that works and doesn’t. This is the gap Trupeer was built to close. I look forward to partnering with enterprises and organisations across the globe to build the context layer that makes enterprise knowledge structured, accessible, and actionable, and AI genuinely useful.”

About Trupeer

Trupeer AI is the workflow knowledge layer for enterprises that enables teams and AI agents. The company helps organizations capture critical operational knowledge that is often trapped in the minds of subject matter experts and scattered across tools, transforming it into structured, accessible, and queryable knowledge. Its platform captures enterprise workflows and turns unstructured, multimodal input into SOPs, guides, studio-quality videos, training assets into 120+ languages and continuously updated, AI-ready context that intelligent agents can leverage, making institutional knowledge accessible, actionable, and queryable. Backed by RTP Global and Salesforce Ventures, Trupeer supports more than 50,000 teams in over 100 countries, including Fortune 100 enterprises, Global Capability Centers and technology-enabled business services companies.

Further details: https://www.trupeer.ai/

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Resilience Actions, a Re Sustainability Initiative, Launches ECOHUB.IN to Power India’s Climate and Circular Economy Innovation Ecosystem

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HYDERABAD, India, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Resilience Actions, the social and environmental impact initiative of Re (Re Sustainability), has launched ECOHUB.IN, a sustainability-focused incubator designed to support early-stage enterprises working in climate and clean-tech, pollution management, resource efficiency, circular economy, and sustainability innovation.

The initiative is aimed at startups that have moved beyond the ideation stage and are ready for commercial scale, with a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP), a committed team, and a clearly defined market opportunity.

As India advances towards a low-carbon and circular economy, the demand for innovative sustainability solutions continues to grow. However, many promising ventures face challenges in scaling due to limited access to mentorship, catalytic capital, industry partnerships, pilot opportunities, and business validation. ECOHUB.IN has been established to bridge these gaps and help transform high-potential sustainability ventures into scalable businesses capable of delivering measurable environmental and social impact.

Through the incubator, participating startups will gain access to mentorship, technical and business advisory support, investment-readiness assistance, pilot-to-commercial pathways, ecosystem partnerships, and opportunities for industry integration. A key differentiator of ECOHUB.IN is its connection to Re’s extensive operational ecosystem, enabling selected ventures to engage with domain experts, validate solutions in real-world environments, and explore pathways for commercial deployment and scale.

Commenting on the launch, Masood Mallick, Managing Director and Group CEO, Re (Re Sustainability), said:

“India’s sustainability transition will not be driven by infrastructure alone. It will be driven by innovation, entrepreneurship, and the ability to scale ideas that solve real environmental challenges. Through ECOHUB.IN, we are creating a platform that brings together innovators, startups, industry leaders, investors, academia, and policymakers to accelerate solutions that are commercially viable, environmentally responsible, and capable of delivering measurable impact.

India has no shortage of ideas. What is often missing is the ecosystem that helps transform those ideas into scalable enterprises. ECOHUB.IN is designed to bridge that gap by providing mentorship, industry access, business validation, and pathways to commercial adoption. By combining the strengths of innovation with the experience and operational ecosystem of Re Sustainability, we hope to enable the next generation of climate and circular economy entrepreneurs to build solutions that contribute meaningfully to India’s sustainability journey and create lasting value for society, industry, and the planet.”

Over time, ECOHUB.IN aims to strengthen India’s sustainability innovation ecosystem by supporting ventures that reduce pollution, improve resource efficiency, advance circularity, create green jobs, enable decarbonization, and contribute to a more resilient future.

Applications for the inaugural cohort will open shortly through ECOHUB.IN.

About Resilience Actions

Resilience Actions is the social and environmental impact initiative of Re Sustainability, focused on building resilient communities through sustainability, innovation, capacity building, and ecosystem partnerships.

Learn more: resilience.org.in | ecohub.in 

About Re Sustainability

Re Sustainability (Re), a KKR company, is one of Asia’s leading providers of integrated environmental and sustainability solutions, delivering waste management, circular economy, water, remediation, and sustainability infrastructure solutions across India and international markets.

Learn more: resustainability.com

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