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Astro Aerospace President and CEO of LuftCar confirmed as next speakers at eVTOL Insights’ virtual networking event

With just over a week to go until our next vir­tu­al net­work­ing event, we’re super excit­ed to reveal our two speak­ers as Bran­don Robin­son, CEO and co-founder of Hori­zon Air­craft, and Santh Sathya, CEO and Founder of Luft­car.

The 90-minute ses­sion will be held on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 24th from 4pm to 5.30pm BST and once again brings togeth­er indus­try pro­fes­sion­als from across the eVTOL air­craft and urban air mobil­i­ty mar­kets. Atten­dees are eas­i­ly able to net­work face-to-face, while trav­el restric­tions are still in place due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Robin­son is the CEO and co-founder of Hori­zon Air­craft and has been recent­ly appoint­ed Pres­i­dent of Astro Aero­space. Cur­rent­ly, he is focused on lead­ing Astro Aerospace’s mul­ti prod­uct offer­ing in the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty sec­tor.

Pri­or to the suc­cess­ful launch of Hori­zon Air­craft, Robin­son flew CF-18s in the Roy­al Cana­di­an Air Force for near­ly 20 years and had the dis­tinc­tion of hav­ing grad­u­at­ed from the Cana­di­an ver­sion of Top Gun.

Upon retire­ment from the Air Force, Bran­don decid­ed to pur­sue his pas­sion for aero­space — with Hori­zon Air­craft born out of a fam­i­ly-owned high tech aero­space com­pa­ny that was design­ing a rev­o­lu­tion­ary new eVTOL air­craft, a design for which Bran­don suc­cess­ful­ly co-authored one of the core patents. 

While Sathya found­ed Luft­Car — an autonomous air and road mobil­i­ty eVTOL mobil­i­ty com­pa­ny in March 2021.  He cares deeply for envi­ron­ment sus­tain­abil­i­ty and is a relent­less inno­va­tor of tech­nolo­gies that solve com­plex prob­lems, improve lives, build social equi­ty and fuel progress.

Before launch­ing Luft­Car, Santh served as the Direc­tor of Strat­e­gy for L3Harris, man­ag­ing $ 2B P&L for the Sec­tor CEO. Santh was head of sys­tems engi­neer­ing at Boe­ing — Insi­tu drones, and led Mod­el Based Sys­tems Engi­neer­ing and dig­i­tal twin devel­op­ment.

San­th’s great­est accom­plish­ment was in devel­op­ing and build­ing 300 hydro­gen fuel cell cars for Ford Motor Com­pa­ny. Santh has core exper­tise in hydro­gen fuel cells, propul­sion, AI archi­tec­tures and lean start up.

Indi­vid­u­als who have attend­ed pre­vi­ous events work for Archer, Beta Tech­nolo­gies, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, Wisk, Astro Aero­space, Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI), Lil­i­um, Bell­wether Indus­tries, Electro.aero, CAE, Wing­copter and Daedalean.

Reg­is­tra­tion for the event on the 24th is free and you can reserve your space by click­ing here. We’d love as many peo­ple to join our con­ver­sa­tions as pos­si­ble, so please share the link with your col­leagues.

Once you have signed up, you will receive a cal­en­dar invite. For those not based in the UK, this month’s Final Fri­day event will start at 8am PT, 11am EDT and 5pm CET.

We’d also love to hear from com­pa­nies which would like to present at future events. If you’d like more infor­ma­tion, please email our edi­tor Jason Pritchard at editorial@evtolinsights.com

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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