Aerospace Team
Ed Zunzunegui
Daamini Visaalaakshi
Daamini Visaalaakshi
Ed founded and leads Air Amelia Aircrafts. He is a private pilot, has a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, and over 30+ years of business experience with leadership positions in five startup companies with one major exit. Throughout his career, he has built and led multiple teams solving customer problems by delivering innovative solutions.
Daamini Visaalaakshi
Daamini Visaalaakshi
Daamini Visaalaakshi
Daamini is an experienced aerospace professional with over 6 years at Boeing and Raytheon Technologies, specializing in the design, analysis, and certification of primary structures for commercial aircraft. She has extensive experience in the complete product development lifecycle and has built airworthy components. She is a graduate student in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, where her research focuses on creating a System of Systems Co-Architecture that integrates airplane design, production, and the supply chain digital thread, aiming to revolutionize the future of aerospace design and manufacturing.
Major Latessa Meader
Daamini Visaalaakshi
Major Latessa Meader
Latessa Meader is an Air Force Major and Aircraft Commander with a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. Her 18 years of experience in aviation include turbine engine mechanic, propulsion engineer, and military pilot.
Brian German, PhD
Brian German, PhD
Major Latessa Meader
Prof. Brian German, PhD, has over 17 years of professional experience, including 15 years as a faculty member at Georgia Tech and 11 years of experience with electric aircraft propulsion. He specializes in configuration design of electric aircraft, aerodynamics of distributed propulsion systems, battery and hybrid electric propulsion modeling, and operations research problems for aviation.
Mark Kotwicz, PhD
Brian German, PhD
Mark Kotwicz, PhD
Mark Kotwicz has a PhD in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and has several years of relevant industry experience. He also has extensive experience in research, having authored or co-authored 10 accepted or published peer-reviewed journal papers in the areas of operations research, optimization, aircraft acoustics, rotor design, data analytics, and demand modeling for AAM.
Russ Pizzuto
Brian German, PhD
Mark Kotwicz, PhD
Russ is a Mechanical Engineer from Georgia Tech, and is an avid pilot. He leads multiple aviation businesses KPDK.
Advisory Team
Bill Hayes
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman
Bill has a background in entrepreneurial, operational, and technology leadership. He has 30+ years of C-level and upper management experience including leading all aspects of operations, sales, marketing, business development, legal, human resources and IT for a number of pre-revenue start-ups to companies with $100+ million annual revenue.
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman
Mark has a 30+ year history with venture capital and private equity backed companies of all stages across multiple industries. He has created exceptional stakeholder ROI while holding diverse leadership roles responsible for all aspects of operations, strategy, finance and buy/sell side M&A.
Aaron Hurst
Mark Chapman
Clay Wardlaw
Aaron is the Founding Managing Director of Endeavor Atlanta, supporting many of the fastest growing technology companies in the Southeast as they scale. Since graduating from Georgia Tech, he has spent his career leading and investing in high-growth technology companies, including at Ceridian, Manhattan Associates, Symphony AI, and IDEA Fund Partners.
Clay Wardlaw
Mark Chapman
Clay Wardlaw
Clay is President and Chief Operating Officer of his business Safety Plus.