Awards & Recognition
★Top-10 Tech Leaders of 2015 by Fortune Magazine
★U.S. Secretary of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal
Notable Facts
→Former CTO of both Airbus and United Technologies Corporation
→Led 30,000-person engineering function at United Technologies
→Created and headed Google's Project Ara modular smartphone platform
→Former Deputy Director and Acting Director of DARPA's Tactical Technology Office
→Founded Universal Hydrogen, operated world's largest fuel cell-powered passenger airliner
→Currently CEO and Co-founder of P-1 AI focused on agentic AI systems
→Recently appointed to SAIC Board of Directors in April 2026
→Serves on Board of Directors of Eve Holding Inc
→Has Wikipedia page documenting career achievements
→One of the most senior aerospace industry executives who is openly gay