Ms. Starr Ginn leads the planning, development, and execution of the Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign (AAM NC) series, which consists of flight testing an experimental AAM Eco System of novel eVTOL and cargo vehicles, infrastructure, and airspace management technologies in the context of increasingly complex safety scenarios enabled by automation. To scale these operations the NC will be evaluating the evolution of closed loop automation between vehicle operations, infrastructure and airspace service providers to get to a UML-4 in a relevant environment prior to industry operating in a UML-4 environment. The NC will involve a broad range of industry, government and community both domestic and international. Starr has 25 years of experience conducting one-of-a-kind flight tests.  Starr has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cal State Northridge and Master of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles.

Clive Lewis of Achieving the Difference has delivered market insight and the confidence to make strategic decisions to numerous large and medium organisations in high-value product and service sectors.

In recent years, many have sought Clive’s knowledge and insight in Advanced Air Mobility. He authored the ADS AAM Market Outlook, an underpinning baseline for business and public investment cases. He leads the Market Workstream of the AAM Group within ADS, the premier trade organisation for companies in the UK Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space Sectors and has advised the UK’s Aerospace Growth Partnership on AAM.

Jack is an experienced Commercial Director with a demonstrated history of working in sales, media, tech and
startups. Skilled in Business Development, Networking, Sales Negotiation, Team Management and Business
Solutions. Currently building Airspeeder, the first electric flying car race series.

Hristo is a Business Development Manager at DRONAMICS, an autonomous cargo drone company
that will revolutionize the middle mile air freight with its "Black Swan" unmanned aircraft. Hristo is
responsible for the company's expansion and development of future drone delivery networks for
logistics companies as well as large customers in spare parts distribution, e‐commerce, and pharma.

Nick is an exited aviation entrepreneur (Sky-Futures 2019) and pilot passionate about bringing software and best in class sustainable aircraft to market for the safe and sustainable growth of the commercial aviation industry. Nick is now on his second startup as cofounder and Chief Commercial Officer at KinectAir. His whole career has been in commercial aviation and includes 15 years/10,000 hours as a pilot for British Airways, the last 5 years as Captain on the Airbus A320. 

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 in 2020, David joined EmbraerX in 2017 where Eve’s projects were originally conceived.
David is a commercial fixed wing pilot, Helicopter pilot, and sUAS (Drone) pilot with over 18 years of flying experience. David has a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University, a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Connecticut, 
and a Master of International Business from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Gary has 30 years’ experience in the Aviation industry, mainly working on complex engineering systems, but with experience in business development, customer consultancy and services creation. He has held engineering leadership positions in Rolls-Royce working across the product lifecycle covering technology acquisition, concept definition, development/certification and service management. He has also held many global, executive leadership positions for the group including creating the System Design function and leading the digital transformation of Engineering. He is now leading the UK government’s Future Flight innovation programme.

Gary’s passion is to bring teams together to challenge the status quo and drive step changes in both the technology and business thinking to transform the aviation industry.

Darrell has established himself as a subject matter expert regarding electric aviation and how it will lead to a future of distributed aviation.  His knowledge encompasses both electric fixed wing and distributed electric propulsion VTOL aircraft infrastructure requirements as well as insights into how the industry could evolve to provide a truly distributed aviation system. 

He is an advisor to the UAM panel at ADS Group as well as a board member of the British Aviation Group, the largest trade body in the UK.  Darrell has over 20 years’ experience as an aviation consultant on airport masterplanning projects thru to airport acquisition advisory services.  

Jarek has spent the last 16 years working for and providing services to leading aviation companies including airlines, airports, leasing companies, aviation consulting firms and suppliers. 

He specializes in demand modelling for advance air mobility, air service development and traffic forecasting for airports, and network, fleet and schedule planning / strategy for airlines. 

Jarek holds a Master’s degree in International Management from The University of Warsaw, a Postgradute degree in Air Transport Sector Management and Finance from Warsaw School of Economics. He has also attended numerous Management and Leadership courses in the US and Europe.

David Hyde leads the World Economic Forum’s efforts on Advanced Aerial Mobility and electric and hydrogen propulsion. In this role David works with leaders from the public and private sectors to lay the groundwork for the adoption of new aviation technologies. David joined the Forum in 2021 from the Aerospace Industries Association, where as Director of Environmental Policy he was responsible for developing and advocating industry positions on issues including climate change and supersonic aircraft. Prior to this, David was an aviation policy advisor at the UK Department for Transport. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Master’s degree in Global Politics, and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Hervé Drevillon has over 25 years’ experience in air traffic management, having managed projects
in the innovation and safety domains for air navigation service providers (DSNA, skeyes),
institutions (EUROCONTROL, EDA, ESA), airports (Aeroports de Paris) and industry (EDF).
He leads Egis activities in UAS Traffic Management and Urban Air Mobility, bringing together
expertise from different business units to address the challenges posed by these new entrants in
terms of safety, security, integration or social acceptance.
Hervé also sits on Airport Council Europe’s (ACI‐E) Technical, Operations and Safety Committee and
is supporting work to update EUROCAE’s A‐CDM standards and guidelines as a contributor to WG‐
111.

Damian Kysely is the Head of Europe and Middle East at Skyports. He is responsible for leading
Skyports’ vertiport infrastructure business in Europe and Middle East, focusing on business
development, government affairs, project management and technology deployment. In his
previous role at Skyports, he was responsible for the design and development of the world’s first
passenger air taxi vertiport in Singapore in October 2019.
Prior to joining Skyports, Damian founded a UK government backed company developing analytics
tools for drone infrastructure deployment in built environments and held previous roles in
transport technology consulting and early‐stage venture capital.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from The University of Manchester.

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 in 2020, David joined EmbraerX in 2017 where Eve’s projects were originally conceived.
David is a commercial fixed wing pilot, Helicopter pilot, and sUAS (Drone) pilot with over 18 years of flying experience. David has a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University, a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Connecticut, 
and a Master of International Business from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Dr Vassilis AGOURIDAS is Head of the EU Public Co‐Creation & Ecosystem Outreach activities at AIRBUS
(Urban Mobility).

Vassilis is the Leader of the UIC2 (Urban Air Mobility Initiative Cities Community) launched
in October 2017 within the Smart Cities Marketplace of the European Commission and Chairman of the UAM
Committee of ASD Europe (the AeroSpace & Defence Industries Association of Europe).

Vassilis has led the development, by UIC2, of the EU’s (Eltis) publication on Urban Air Mobility and Sustainable Urban Mobility (SUMP‐UAM, Practitioner Briefing). He is a member of the EASA’s Task Force on UAM Societal Acceptance, and has been a member of the EASA's Steering Group on the development of Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMCs) and Guidance Material (GM) for the U‐Space Implementation Regulation [(EU) 2021/664] as team leader of experts for Article 18(f) (U‐Space Coordination Mechanism among authorities and entities including at local level).

Mirijam Böhme, M.A., studied political science at the University of Bamberg and led a research project on the psychological determinants of political decision-making at the same institution for four years.

Today, Ms. Böhme is the Head of the Science Office at the City of Aachen, where she is responsible for strategically shaping the cooperation between Aachen's universities, the city administration, and the city's society. As a dynamic network institution, the Science Office promotes Aachen as a location for innovation and makes science a tangible experience together with universities, research institutes and researching companies within the framework of creative event formats.

Since 2019, she also serves as coordinator of the EU-regional Urban Air Mobility Initiative, in which the cities of Maastricht (NL), Aachen (D), Hasselt (B), Heerlen (NL), and Liège (B) jointly research technologies and use cases for the socially relevant use of innovative airborne devices with local innovation drivers from science and industry.

Michael has over 20 years of civil and military aerospace experience at Rolls‐Royce.
Michael co‐developed Rolls‐Royce’s electrical strategy and led future technologies programmes.

Michael has over 20 years of civil and military aerospace experience at Rolls‐Royce.
Michael co‐developed Rolls‐Royce’s electrical strategy and led future technologies programmes.

Charles Alcock is a senior editor with AIN, having rejoined the company in 2019. He has been an aviation journalist since 1986, and previously worked for AIN from 1990 to 2017, most recently as editor-in-chief. In his new UK-based role, he focuses on covering new aerospace technologies and international news.

Paul graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in Chemistry. With over 35 years of experience in the advanced composites industry, Paul has commanded roles that span R+D, technology development, product management, and business development. Paul has overseen the advancement of lightweight structures across aerospace and automotive markets, including the qualification and development of composite materials for aerospace primary structures and processes for high volume manufacturing in industrial and automotive applications. Paul is currently the UK Sales Director for Toray and is responsible for developing and advancing lightweight material solutions for emerging and existing markets.

Kolin is a passionate "Future of Mobility Analyst" with several years of educational and hands‐on experience in the academia, tech industry and digital innovation startup ecosystem. Build expert knowledge of data collection, analysis, synthesis and turning data into compelling visualization and business implications.

Experienced analyst trained in Tableau, Powerpoint and Excel. Adaptive team player, eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills. Dynamic individual with a proven history of innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and effective, results‐oriented work attitude.

Matthew Sattler is a transportation and startup problem solver focused on solving hard tech challenges. Matthew currently leads Infrastructure and Ecosystem Partners at Supernal and is responsible for creating partnerships that will enable a future mobility ecosystem. Prior to joining Supernal, Matthew helped commercialize autonomous airplanes at Reliable Robotics and led business development for Boom Supersonic, a startup building a new supersonic airliner.

As Director for Aerospace and Assured Space Systems at CGI, Hannes focusses on commercial, business aviation and general aviation safety and operations, including emerging technologies such as future air mobility and drones.

With more than 20 years of experience in designing, building, testing and flying spacecraft and space payloads for planetary exploration and telecommunications, Hannes has worked for the German Federal Armed Forces University, the European Space Agency, Thales Alenia Space, Inmarsat and Griebel Aeropsace Consulting prior to joining CGI in 2021.

He is a recognized expert on space science and exploration, satellite-based aviation safety and operational services, Global Aeronautic Distress and Safety Systems and advanced air traffic services. As a recognized expert on global aircraft tracking and flight recorder data recovery, Hannes is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and chairs the EUROCAE working group for flight recorder minimum operational performance standards.

Dr Seyed Mohseni is a serial entrepreneur who has founded a number of successful businesses with his academic background in aerospace engineering design.   

He holds an MSc in aerospace propulsion (Cranfield University) as well as an MBA and doctorate in gas turbine technology (Cranfield University). 

Samad Aerospace Ltd, a UK based company, developing a range of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) electric powered business aircraft for civil aviation use. 

Kostas is currently SVP Engineering and Technology for the GKN Aerospace Civil Airframe Business. An Aeronautical Engineer with almost 30 years’ experience in the aerospace industry.
Has led multiple airframe design applications on airframe platforms and has held direct responsibility (Chief Engineer) of major GKN Design and Build Programmes.
Held executive positions in GKN Aerospace since 2013 being responsible for a multitude of aircraft designs undertaken by GKN for most OEM’s.
Vast experience in the whole aircraft development lifecycle from concept, design, introduction into manufacture, certification, operational delivery and customer support.
Responsible for development of new technology and how it can be used to improve sustainability and performance of future aircraft platforms and drive efficiency in aircraft manufacture. In this role, Kostas is helping shape future air travel and aircraft through innovation and technology.

Robin co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility and its work in mobility disrupters in the Americas and is a global leader of the Disruptive Aerospace sector within McKinsey’s Aerospace & Defense Practice.

His work focuses on innovative topics in the aviation industry, including advanced air mobility, unmanned aerial systems, sustainable aviation, and super or hypersonic flight. This covers the entire value chain, which includes operators, aircraft manufacturers, part-and-service providers, airports, ground handlers, training organizations, regulators, and investors.

In this constantly evolving, competitive market, Robin leverages hands-on expertise and broad, cross-functional knowledge to support clients across the aviation industry by addressing strategic challenges, and capturing value and growth.

Before joining McKinsey, Robin held department leadership roles in both the commercial and operations branches of a major airline. He is also a certified commercial airline pilot.

Jia leads strategy for Honeywell’s AAM business and is an expert in the evolving AAM industry, its regulatory issues and its technical challenges.

Before joining Honeywell, Jia worked as the chief architect for advanced air mobility systems at Airbus, where he led the development of operational architectures and business cases. He also held research and leadership positions at the RAND Corporation, where he led advanced technology programs in artificial intelligence and machine learning, uncrewed aircraft and autonomy. On the vehicle side, Jia has led UAS design and engineering analysis efforts at General Atomics.

Jia received his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. He also holds master’s degrees in computational methods from Imperial College London and international relations from the London School of Economics. Both were completed under the tenure of a Marshall Scholarship.