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EAS 2021 was a great event with some 450 registrants! Thank you to all of our organizers, panelists, sponsors and attendees! Video recording of the first (free) day are available on our YouTube Channel. The entire event (12.5 hours of video recordings) is available for purchase for $125 on our Vimeo Channel.
VFS is again co-sponsoring the annual Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS), organized by the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation, on July 20-22, 2021. This year's 15th Annual EAS will be held virtually! The CAFE Foundation and Vertical Flight Society have been working to advance electric aviation for many years and have partnered again for this year’s EAS. Electric and hybrid electric powered aircraft have the potential to significantly reduce air transportation costs, carbon emissions and community noise.
Register for both Day 2 and 3, and pay only $140 — $20 off! (except students) In 2007, CAFE Foundation hosted the first electric aircraft symposium in North America. In 2011, the Foundation managed NASA’s Green Flight Challenge, which was funded by Google. This US$1.35 million prize was awarded to Pipistrel USA for its winning 4-seat, electric-powered aircraft, the Taurus G4, which flew nearly 200 miles (322 km) non-stop, while achieving 403.5 passenger-MPG (171.5 passenger-km/l)! Its astounding efficiency was more than twice that of the piston-powered aircraft in the competition. The Vertical Flight Society was founded in 1943 by the pioneers of the US helicopter industry to advocate for vertical flight and create a robust international technical community. VFS hosted the world’s first electric VTOL technical meeting in 2014, launched the world’s first eVTOL eNewsletter in 2016 and eVTOL website in 2017, and the world’s first eVTOL short course in 2018. The Society also supported the development of the Uber Elevate White Paper and is a Partner of the GoFly Prize competition. VFS now includes profiles on more than 480 electric VTOL aircraft in its World eVTOL Aircraft Directory, www.eVTOL.news.
Check out the VFS-sponsored videos and presentations from the past three years: 2020: 14th Annual EAS Speakers & Agenda | 36 Presentation Videos 2019: 13th Annual EAS Speakers & Agenda | 26 Presentation Videos 2018: 12th Annual EAS Speakers & Agenda | 19 Presentation Videos About CAFE Foundation: The Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation was founded in 1981.The Foundation occupies a unique position in the electric aircraft industry. As a nonprofit organization, CAFE Foundation's mission is to advance the development of low-emission flight by fostering and promoting early entry practical market opportunities. CAFE Foundation accomplishes this by bridging disciplines and industries, helping to identify trends and innovations, building strategic collaborations and ensuring on-going coordination. www.CAFE.foundation About VFS: The Vertical Flight Society was founded as the American Helicopter Society in 1943 by the visionaries of the early helicopter industry, who believed that technological cooperation and collaboration were essential to support this new type of aircraft. Today, VFS plays a similar role helping to advance today’s revolutionary VTOL aircraft. It is the world’s oldest and largest vertical flight technology organization. www.VTOL.org |
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Posted 2021-05-03; last updated 2021-07-12
Mr. Johnny T. Doo is the President of International Vehicle Research, Inc., focusing on innovations in flight vehicle technology, product development, and applications. His efforts including strategic consulting with global customers on business planning, product development & market strategy. Recent projects include designing a personal air mobility system and the successful development of a utility UAS for agriculture and cargo delivery operations. He is also the Lead of the NASA Transformative Vertical Flight Working Group on Public Services, teaming with over 100 industry leaders and experts to develop the roadmap and use-cases for disaster relief, humanitarian aid, search & rescue, police & firefighting, medical transport, and military eVTOL applications.
Col Diller received his commission from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2000. After simultaneous master’s degrees at Harvard and MIT, he attended Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training and flew F-16s for two Combat Air Force assignments, becoming an instructor pilot. He was selected for the French Test Pilot school and then completed his first test tour at Edwards AFB, supporting B-1, B-2, F-16, F-22 and F-35 flight test and instructing at the Test Pilot School. He served as an Executive Officer to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and as a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Service Chiefs Fellow. Upon completing a program management tour at the Space and Missile Center, he took command of the 586th Flight Test Squadron, supervising classified flight test for joint, interagency and international clients. Col Diller attended the Eisenhower School, completing the Senior Acquistion Course and was assigned as the Air and Space Branch Chief in the Joint Staff J8. He then became that Assistant Director of Aeronautics at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and served at the Office of the Secretary of Defense Strategic Capabilties Office and the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.
Dr. Tine Tomažič was born in 1983 and received B.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Ljubljana in 2007 and 2014 respectively. His work in systems automation and human machine interfaces ranges from autopilot technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles to electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems. Tomažič was involved in development of world's first 2-seat and world's first electric 4-seat aircraft, the Taurus Electro and the Taurus G4. His current research is in the field of certifiable hybrid-electric propulsion systems and their intuitive user interfaces, where besides being involved in the development, Tomazic is active in the working group with ASTM F44.40 to rewrite current General Aviation design standards to allow proliferation of electric flight. He is the CTO of Pipistrel.
CTO and Co-Founder of Electro.Aero, Josh has over a dozen years of experience developing and commercialising electric propulsion and autonomous systems. He is an entrepreneur and robotics engineer who has specialised in electric propulsion technologies. Josh founded Electro.Aero to help safely propel the sustainable aviation industry, through developing and commercialising electric charging systems for aircraft development partners, including electrical management systems and other propulsion sub-systems. Josh also founded the SAE AE-7D committee for aircraft charging standards in 2018.
Marc Ausman is a recognized expert in the fields of next-generation electric and autonomous aircraft. He is the co-founder and CEO of Airflow.aero, which is developing electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) aircraft. He most recently served as Chief Strategist for the Airbus Vahana urban air mobility project, and before that Eclipse Aviation where he helped develop the world’s first very light jet.
Adrienne Lindgren is an urban planner and economic development professional, with a focus on integrating advanced transportation technology into the built environment to enhance urban and regional mobility outcomes. As Hyundai Urban Air Mobility’s (UAM) Lead for State and Local Partnerships, Adrienne partners with entities across the globe to better understand how UAM technology can deliver universal, affordable, and human-centered cities, while driving and supporting initiatives that increase capacity for UAM solutions in a multi-modal mobility environment.
Tim contributes at CAE in several capacities primarily around aviation learning solutions and advanced training programs with specialization in competency-based training programs. Tim has held many positions in the past 25 years in aviation including GCAA FCL Inspector in the UAE, Head of Training Etihad Flight College, Director Flight Operations and currently Global Director of Business & Helicopter Aviation Training at CAE.
Erik Lindbergh is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of VerdeGo Aero which provides Powertrain Systems and Engineering Services to the emerging electric aircraft industry. Erik serves as Chairman of the Board of the Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, and on the board of trustees of the XPRIZE Foundation. Erik and his wife Lyn Co-Host The Lindberghs podcast focusing on second chances in life.
Lee Human has built a career helping aerospace companies bring their products to market. He founded AeroTEC in 2003 with just three employees, providing flight test services to STC companies like Aviation Partners Boeing. The company quickly grew and expanded its capabilities to include certification and engineering services. Lee knew that with this added capability, AeroTEC was perfectly positioned to fill a gap in the industry that few others could.
Kevin Noertker is Co-founder and CEO of Ampaire, and Founder and President of the Amp Division of Surf Air Mobility. Over the past half decade, Kevin and his team have pioneered practical, compelling electrified flight through the upgrade of existing aircraft types. Prior to Ampaire he contributed engineering expertise to stealth aircraft and satellite development programs and as a student he contributed to our understanding of the universe as a research fellow at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Timothy Middleton has fourteen years of airport management, noise abatement, and environmental compliance experience. With a background in Political Science and Public Policy, Tim leverages his technical knowledge and public outreach expertise to effectively communicate to a wide range of clients, including members of the public, airport managers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and state and local officials. His core competencies include operating Airport Noise and Operations Monitoring Systems, responding to airport noise complaints, writing technical reports for senior airport staff, training airport staff on noise abatement best practices and procedures, and presenting complex technical information in an approachable manner.
Mike Hirschberg assumed the duties of the Vertical Flight Society Executive Director in June 2011, after 20 years in the aerospace industry, primarily in vertical flight. As the VFS Executive Director, he represents the vertical flight technical community and advocates for the advancement of vertical flight research and technology. Mr. Hirschberg is the publisher of all society publications, including Vertiflite, the Journal of the AHS, and the Annual Forum Proceedings. He served as the Managing Editor of Vertiflite magazine from 1999 to 2011, and had been a contributing author since 1997.
Willi Tacke, the founder and CEO of Flying Pages GmbH, is a pioneering advocate for electric aviation. Willi Tacke has been working for aviation publications since 1983 as an editor, test flight editor, editor in chief, publisher and presenter. He is a fixed wing private pilot, hang glider and paraglider instructor. Ever since his first flight in an electric ultralight in 2009, he has flown in several electric airplanes. He is the organizer and founder of the annual e-flight-expo which is the world’s first electric aviation trade show at AERO Friedrichshafen in Germany since 2009. He is the also the founder and the host of the annual e-flight-forum in China since 2017.
Xin Gou is the vice president of Flying Pages GmbH and the chief editor of “Flying China” magazine. He flew the electric airplane for the first time in 2015 in the RX1E electric light sports airplane prototype. He is the co-founder and organizer of the annual e-flight-forum in China，the first event dedicated to electric aviation in China.
Mike Friend retired in 2014 after a 36-year career with the Boeing Company and has since worked as an independent consultant specializing in aircraft configuration development, most recently for Mitsubishi in Japan. Mike currently serves on the Technical Advisory Board for ZeroAvia, working to develop a hydrogen fuel cell electric propulsion system for commercial aircraft. While at Boeing, Mike’s early career was as a wind tunnel model design specialist at the Boeing Aerodynamic Laboratories. Mike served as a chief engineer in the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Product Development group, leading preliminary design teams on projects such as the Sonic Cruiser, New Small Airplane, 747 Large Cargo Freighter, and the Boeing Fuel Cell Demonstrator airplane. The Fuel Cell Demonstrator, the world’s first manned fuel cell hybrid electric aircraft, successfully flew in 2008, and the leadership of this project informed Mike’s interest in electric aircraft.
Ms. Barilov is the Business Development and Strategy Lead at Jump Aero, a startup building an electric aircraft designed to help first responders and EMS personnel save lives. Ms Barilov has extensive experience in aviation, structured asset-backed finance, and corporate strategy. She joined Jump Aero in 2019 after several years of providing consulting and niche financing in the aviation industry. Prior, Ms. Barilov was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs' Industrials Group in New York, focused on assisting top tier aviation, aerospace and defense clients.
Stith leads teams planning and building sustainable transportation and distributed clean energy infrastructure. He works on BV projects that span the globe, from North America, South America to Europe and Asia, as he supports investors, developers, OEMs, utilities, fleets and transportation service providers to electrify and automate ground, aviation and marine fleets. Paul sits on the board of Forth, a leading U.S. organization advancing clean transportation and North America Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) Mr. Stith speaks frequently at U.S. and international events and was lead author of Smart Electric Power Alliance’s Preparing for an Electric Vehicle Future: How Utilities Can Succeed; Black & Veatch’s Electric Fleets: 8 Steps to Medium and Heavy-Duty Fleet Electrification; Priming the US Grid for High Power Charging and the NIA-NASA Urban Air Mobility Infrastructure Study, Powered for Take Off, detailing energy and infrastructure requirements for Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Vehicles (eVTOL).
Billy founded REGENT - a startup in Boston, Massachusetts building the future of sustainable, maritime transportation - after years spent as an aerospace program manager, business development leader, and multidisciplinary aerospace engineer. He is experienced in leading all aspects of the aircraft development process - from business case studies and requirements definition; through trade studies, detailed performance analysis, and production; and culminating in flight test and operations. During his time at Aurora Flight Sciences, Billy was responsible for developing new programs in vehicle design and technology maturation to support Aurora’s portfolio of future air mobility solutions.
Eric Bartsch is CEO and Co-Founder of VerdeGo Aero a leader in hybrid-electric aerospace propulsion. Eric has been involved in electric flight for more than 10 years with prior experience leading development and flight testing at one of the early battery-electric aircraft programs. He has innovation leadership and General Management experience running businesses in excess of $200M in revenue; and holds commercial, instrument, and glider flight ratings with experience piloting electric airplanes. Eric co-founded VerdeGo Aero in 2017 along with Dr. Pat Anderson and Erik Lindbergh.
Adam Cohen is a mobility futures researcher with the Innovative Mobility Research group at the Transportation Sustainability Research Center of the University of California, Berkeley. Since joining the group in 2004, his research has focused on innovative urban mobility solutions, including urban air mobility, shared mobility, urban goods delivery, automation, smart cities, smartphone apps, and other emerging technologies. Cohen recently completed two exploratory studies of the opportunities and challenges of urban air mobility for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a manufacturer. He has also co-authored numerous articles and reports in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
Mr. James Sherman has over 25 years of business development, project management and engineering experience with expertise in developing technology for aerospace, automotive, military, and consumer products. Jim Sherman joined VFS in May 2019 as the Society's Director of Strategic Development, responsible for setting and executing the Society’s strategy for promoting membership development and growth. Jim in particular is responsible for supporting the development of the "Electric VTOL Revolution" and expanding the Society’s membership in this fast-growing market segment.
Prior to NEXA, Mr. Dyment was Senior Managing Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers, responsible for key aerospace and defense industry clients. He served in the business consulting unit of Arthur Andersen LLP, where he was the global managing partner of its Aviation Industry Practice.
Kyle Clark is an aerospace engineer and pilot. He’s the founder and CEO of BETA Technologies, a South Burlington, VT based company helping the world transition to electric powered aviation. Kyle is a native Vermonter and craftsman, who takes pride in hands-on work. At BETA, he’s part of a relentlessly focused team developing motors, inverters and batteries, and the most technologically advanced electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in the world. BETA’s products and services, including aircraft and charging systems, enable the movement of people and cargo around the world safely, efficiently and with minimal environmental impact.
Charles Alcock has been an aviation journalist since 1986, having served most of his career with Aviation International News in Europe and the U.S. He was formerly editor-in-chief of this international media group and is now senior editor in charge of creating AIN’s new FutureFlight.aero platform to cover new aviation technology and business models.
Ken Swartz was elected to the Board of Directors of the Vertical Flight Society in 2018 representing the Americas (Canada, Central America and South America) and is the Director of Marketing & Communications for the Electric Aircraft Symposium which he has presented at the past four years. He has been a driving force behind the Vertical Flight Society’s eVTOL News initiative since early 2017 and is senior editor of Vertiflite magazine and the www.eVTOL.news site. Ken is a senior aerospace marketing and communications strategist with Aeromedia Communications working with clients across the helicopter, VTOL and commercial aviation sector. As one of Canada’s leading aerospace journalists, Ken has also written thousands of articles helicopter operations, regional airlines and aerospace technology since the early 1980s.
Yolanka is a business attorney and consultant with over two decades of experience in the successful development, implementation and management of mission-driven programs. Prior to joining Community Air Mobility Initiative as Co-Executive Director, Yolanka has been a sustainable aviation consultant for nine years, working with industry, government, academia and nonprofits on policy, standards and regulations, industry development, market challenges, communications and media relations. Yolanka also serves as Executive Director of CAFE Foundation where she organizes the annual Electric Aircraft Symposium.
Danielle founded hydrogen fuel cell eVTOL company, Happy Takeoff (HTO) in 2019 after working for several years at Spirit Aerosystems in various engineering roles including Urban Air Mobility focal. Before Spirit, she founded an audio and video production company where she served as the CTO for 10 years.
Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense. Born and educated in Scotland, he graduated in aeronautical engineering and worked in advanced design at Hawker Siddeley Aviation in the U.K. before becoming an aerospace journalist. Before joining Aviation Week in April 2008, he spent almost 30 years with weekly aerospace news magazine Flight International, most recently as Americas Editor based in the U.S. Graham is a winner of the Decade of Excellence award for aviation journalism, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Aerospace Media Awards. In 2013 the Jesse H. Neal award for Best Technical Content was awarded to Graham Warwick and Guy Norris for their Advanced Propulsion feature.
Kelsey Reichmann is an associate editor at Avionics International covering emerging and embedded technologies in the commercial and defense aviation space. She previously completed an editorial fellowship with Defense News covering a range of topics across the defense industry.
Rex is a 40-year veteran of aviation and is the co-founder and president of Five-Alpha (5alpha;) LLC, a globally recognized aeronautical consultancy specialized in helicopter and vertical flight infrastructure development, safety, training, and education. He currently serves as Infrastructure Advisor to the Vertical Flight Society, is Co-chair of the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team’s (USHST) Infrastructure Working Group and is a committee member on the National Fire Protection (NFPA) 418, Standard for Heliports. He is past president of the National EMS Pilots Associating (NEMSPA) and past president of the Indiana Association of Air Medical Services (INAAMS).
Scott is a retired United States Air Force Colonel who served on active duty for nearly 24 years as an operational pilot in the KC-135 and B-1B, as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base and in other Pentagon staff assignments. Col Neumann is a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School and has been an experimental test pilot for over 25 years. He was operations officer and a project pilot during the initial developmental testing of the B-2 stealth bomber and later also participated in B-1B Lancer and EC-130 Compass Call and Commando Solo projects and was an instructor pilot at the Air Force Test Pilot School. Following his military retirement, Scott served in the Federal Aviation Administration as the Chief Technical Advisor and Special Assistant to the Director of the Aircraft Certification Service.
Jean Botti is the CEO and CTO of VoltAero SA and also the Co-Founder. Previously, he was Airbus Group Chief Technical Officer. During his time with Airbus Group, he pushed the Group forward on the path of innovation in various areas and through many initiatives. Botti’s perhaps best-known initiative, the E-Fan all-electric aircraft, is a pioneering project for which he has received many international awards – including the prestigious “Pro Pilot Award” for the “Best Aviation Technical Development of the Year 2015” at the 13th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards in Los Angeles.
Lowell Foster is GAMA’s Director of Global Innovation and Engineering and is responsible for developing new paths for the integration of emerging general aviation technologies. His efforts include looking at new ways to address certification and pilot training. Lowell previously worked at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a flight test engineer, where he was responsible for a broad range of general aviation safety, policy, and regulatory activities with the Airplane Standards Branch.
Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights, a website covering the latest news, videos and podcasts about the eVTOL aircraft and Urban Air Mobility markets. He is a UK-based journalist with more than 10 years’ experience in media and communications. eVTOL Insights has quickly grown to become one of the leading news sources in the industry. Jason leads the editorial content, hosts its popular podcast series and organises the virtual networking events held on the final Friday of every month.
Nimrod Joined Urban Aeronautics at 2019 and assumed CEO position at Oct 2020. Between 2015-2019 Nimrod served as VP of Delivery, at Amdocs, a $3.9 billion software and services company for communications, media and financial services providers and digital enterprises (NASDAQ: DOX). At Amdocs he was responsible for a direct and indirect global team of 500 people functioning as an independent business unit (Revenue EBIT, P&A, KPIs), leading program planning and execution and business development with customers (AT&T, Comcast, Dish and Orange) - integrating multiple internal and external stakeholders (Product R&D, Solution and Architecture, Testing, Deployment, Support and Operations).
Kevin Antcliff is the Product Lead of Xwing, a startup whose mission is to dramatically increase human mobility using fully autonomous aerial vehicles. Kevin is passionate about making the joy of flight affordable, sustainable, and accessible for all. Kevin joined Xwing from NASA where he was the Deputy Lead of Emerging Applications and Technologies in the Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch. In this role, he led the development of a white paper in collaboration with experts from industry and academia to cast a vision for Regional Air Mobility. He also served as the Co-PI on the High-efficiency Electrified Aircraft Thermal Research, or HEATheR, project and led the design of several electric and hybrid-electric aircraft concepts including the Parallel Electric-Gas Architecture with Synergistic Utilization Scheme (PEGASUS) concept and multiple Urban Air Mobility concepts within the Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT) project.
Scott D. Gore is a Program Manager for Strategic Engagement in the FAA’s UAS Integration Office. In this role, Scott leads strategic and community engagement efforts related to unmanned aircraft and the emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector. Prior to his current role, Scott was a Senior Congressional Liaison for the FAA from 2009 through early 2021. In this capacity, Scott was the primary liaison to Members of Congress and congressional staff for the FAA’s Aviation Safety organization, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office, and Office of Commercial Space Transportation. Before joining the FAA in 2009, Scott worked for two years on Capitol Hill as a staff member for Congressman Nick Rahall of West Virginia, a long-time member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Bill Peterson is the Founder and CEO of Flying Ship Technologies, Corp., building a distributed logistics network to improve the quality of life for people in coastal areas through technology-focused partnerships. He has almost 20 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry, serving in diverse roles across corporations, governments, consultancies and trade groups. Throughout his career, Bill has led teams in multiple functional areas in the pursuit of business capture, engineering, economic development and government relations.
John-Paul (J-P) Clarke is the CTO of Universal Hydrogen and a professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, he was a College of Engineering Dean’s Professor at Georgia Tech, and previously a professor at MIT.
Armed with a Masters Degree in engineering, Olaf has been working to further the development of hybrid-electric flight since 2016. He is the Director of Programs and Deputy Director of Rolls-Royce Electrical, leading the new product introduction and industrialization strategy and execution.
Fredrik, a Swedish national, worked for several years with the Swedish CAA, first as rulemaking officer, then legal adviser and finally manager for the legal office. He joined EASA in September 2004 as the agency’s deputy chief legal adviser and took up the position as manager for the Agreements and External Representation Section in the International Cooperation Department in May 2016 where he stayed until February 2018. Fredrik came back to Sweden in March 2018 to take up the position as Director Industry Affairs for the Swedish Aviation Industry Group which forms part of the Swedish Confederation of Transport Enterprises.
David Rottblatt is the Vice President of Business Development at Eve Urban Air Mobility. In this role, David is responsible for Eve’s commercial strategy and sales of Eve’s eVTOL, Urban Air Traffic Management and Services & Support product lines. Prior to the spin-out of Eve, David developed the Urban Air Traffic Management concept within EmbraerX where he co-published the Urban Air Mobility ConOps with Airservices Australia.
Michael Duffy serves as Vice President of Product at Electric Power Systems, where he leads the company’s business development and product management units as it introduces certifiable products to the market. Michael Duffy comes to EP Systems following an 18-year career as a leader at Boeing. He held numerous leadership positions at Boeing NeXt—Boeing’s urban air mobility organization—including Propulsion Lead for the “Cargo Air Vehicle” program, which successfully demonstrated electric VTOL potential by flying two life-size, Star Wars X-wing aircraft over Disney World in 2020. He has as also served as a program leader in Boeing’s Research and Technology Division, leading electric VTOL technology programs including the LIFT! vertical electric flying crane, DARPA VTOL X-plane scale demo, and several Urban Air Mobility studies with NASA, DARPA and ONR.
Glen Dromgoole is the founder of Tier 1 Engineering, an innovative design and development company, serving the aviation industry, based in Southern California. In 2015, Glen led the development of the worlds largest battery powered helicopter. The 2500lb aircraft achieved first flight in 2016 and currently holds four Guinness World Record titles including, firsts in electric flight, farthest distance and longest duration. Before founding Tier 1 Engineering, Glen consulted to Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Gulftream and has 20 years of experience in design and development of commercial and military aircraft.
Drew Jacoby Lemos is the senior director of government affairs for the Regional Airline Association (RAA). He oversees the development of federal legislative priorities and strategy and leads legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of RAA. Previously, he served as associate director of federal government affairs for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in his Washington, DC office.
Marilyn Smith is a Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Georgia Tech Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, funded by the US Army, US Navy and NASA. She currently serves as the Technical Director for the Vertical Flight Society, VFS. Her research encompasses computational unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelasticity for complex configurations, including rotorcraft, where she has over 200 publications. She is currently developing reduced-order models for nonlinear applications in active flow control, bluff bodies, and turbulence.
CEO Daniel A. Wolf founded Cape Air in 1989 with one route between Boston and Provincetown, eight employees and a first-year total of just 8,000 passengers. Today, Cape Air, along with sister airline Nantucket Airlines, is the largest commuter airline in the United States. Dan continues to stay current with his Air Transport Pilot license and flies as a pilot for Cape Air on weekends.
Dr. Seyed Mohseni is a serial entrepreneur and former CEO of Samad Power (with successful growth and expansion of the company to be the UK first clean tech company for two years 2015 and 2016), with a successful track record within 20 years in technical roles (including Siemens and ExxonMobil).
Nicolas is a natural-born communicator who has been focusing on electric mobility since 2006. Nicolas brings a unique global view on the strategies behind the emergence of electric mobility industries, including aviation, automotive, and more. Today he enjoys communication strategies for some of the best Urban Air Mobility (UAM) startups. He is published in several international media outlets, such as Michelin's Challenge Bibendum, CleanTechnica, Teslarati, and more. In addition, he is proud to write for the Vertiflite magazine.