Our Team

Designed and built 30+ novel aircraft

Broke 4 of 7 Absolute Aviation records recognized by FAI  

Global Flyer; SpaceShipOne

Led manufacturing of the highest production rate rocket engine ever

SpaceX Raptor Engine

Led materials/processes for highest production rate GA aircraft of this century

Cirrus SR Series

Part of the Collier trophy and X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne team

SpaceShipOne

Leadership team has built 5 billion-dollar startup companies

Built software with combined 4.6B active users worldwide

100+ years of uniformed U.S. military service

Leadership


Danny Goodman was Co-Founder and CTO of Vannevar Labs, where he led the development of the company’s core product, Decrypt, from inception through Series A fundraise. This included winning 5 customer contracts with over $50M in combined capacity.

Danny previously served as VP of Platform for MetaMind (acq. by Salesforce) and Director of Data Science for MetroMile (NYSE: LMND). Danny holds a bachelors degree in math and physics from Harvard, a masters in computer science from Stanford and an ASP fellowship from MIT.

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Danny Goodman

CEO


Oliver Palmer advised the Secretary of Defense as OSD China Director and as Taiwan team lead (GS-15 level), where he negotiated a $1.8B in arms sales to Taiwan and worked with senior Taiwan leadership to implement an asymmetric defense strategy through $10B/year in force structure investments.

As General Manager at Voleon Group, an AI hedge fund with >$5bn in AUM, he helped rapidly scale the company and stood up a new business division with global operations. He helped Embraer navigate entry into corporate venture capital, eVTOL, and new advanced manufacturing initiatives. Oliver attended Princeton and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Oliver Palmer

COO


Peter Kalogiannis brings 20+ years of aircraft experience, including more than a decade at Scaled Composites, where he specialized in designing, building and testing unique aircraft and spacecraft.

Peter was CTO and Co-Founder of Airflow.aero and Integration & Test Lead and Pilot in Command for the Airbus Vahana eVTOL demonstrator – the fastest eVTOL ever to go from conception to flight.  Peter’s past work includes the Eclipse 500 VLJ, Proteus high-altitude research jet, and SpaceShipTwo.

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Peter Kalogiannis

Chief Engineer

Tyler Ives

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Clint Nichols

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Munir Zanial

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Jeremy Feltracco

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Spyros Korsanos

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Spencer Rodriguez

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Mission Advisors

Gen Arnold W. Bunch Jr. (USAF, Ret.)

Commander of Air Force Material Command; $60bn annual weapons acquisition budget

Lt Gen Thomas Conant (USMC, Ret.)

Former Deputy PACOM Commander​

Maj Gen Dawn Dunlop (USAF, Ret.)

Led $140B Air Force Futures portfolio​

Maj Gen Stephen Sargeant (USAF, Ret.)

Led Air Force OT&E

Col Brandon Baker (USAF, Ret.)

Led $24B USAF UAS portfolio​