Awards & Recognition
★Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
★Fellow recognition in Vertical Flight Society (formerly American Helicopter Society)
★Listed in Vertipedia as notable figure in vertical flight history
Notable Facts
→Former CEO of Zee.Aero (Larry Page's flying car company) from 2015-2018, leading development of Cora air taxi
→Head of Uber Elevate from 2018-2021, launched Uber Copter service in NYC
→PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University
→Current annual salary of $551,688 at Joby Aviation with substantial equity holdings (750,000+ shares worth $13M+)
→Led multi-disciplinary engineering teams from zero to 75+ engineers at Zee.Aero
→Testified before U.S. Congress on advanced air mobility and aviation policy
→Over 1,000 full-scale test flights experience across eVTOL development