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Electra Names B. Marc Allen as Chief Executive Officer

Electra.aero appoints B. Marc Allen, for­mer Boe­ing Chief Strat­e­gy Offi­cer, as its new CEO. 🚀 Allen’s exten­sive expe­ri­ence in glob­al busi­ness and strate­gic lead­er­ship posi­tions him to guide Elec­tra’s growth, par­tic­u­lar­ly with over 2,000 orders for their hybrid-elec­tric air­craft. This tran­si­tion marks a piv­otal moment as Elec­tra pre­pares to rev­o­lu­tion­ize air trav­el with its direct avi­a­tion mod­el.

Man­as­sas, VA)  Electra.aero, Inc. (Elec­tra) is pleased to announce the appoint­ment of B. Marc Allen as its new Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer. 

Marc Allen joins Elec­tra after a dis­tin­guished career at The Boe­ing Com­pa­ny, where he most recent­ly served as Chief Strat­e­gy Offi­cer and Senior Vice Pres­i­dent for Strat­e­gy and Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment. He led the $5 bil­lion cus­tomer finance busi­ness before spend­ing near­ly a decade on Boe­ing’s Exec­u­tive Coun­cil, where he served as Pres­i­dent of Boe­ing Inter­na­tion­al and over­saw crit­i­cal enter­prise-wide func­tions. As head of all ven­ture busi­ness­es, he led Wisk Aero’s restruc­tur­ing and full acqui­si­tion, focus­ing on the future of autonomous flight and serv­ing as Chair­man. Oth­er roles at Boe­ing includ­ed Pres­i­dent of the Embraer Part­ner­ship, Pres­i­dent of Boe­ing Chi­na, and Gen­er­al Coun­sel of Boe­ing Inter­na­tion­al. Allen is a grad­u­ate of Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty and holds a JD from Yale Law School. His ear­ly career includes clerk­ing for U.S. Supreme Court Jus­tice Antho­ny M. Kennedy, co-found­ing a sports med­i­cine start­up, and serv­ing as a busi­ness con­sul­tant with The Parthenon Group.

“Marc’s excep­tion­al back­ground in glob­al busi­ness and strate­gic lead­er­ship makes him the ide­al choice to guide Elec­tra into its next phase of growth,” said John S. Lang­ford, Electra’s Founder and Chair­man.  “With over 2,000 orders for our 9‑seat hybrid elec­tric air­craft from cus­tomers world­wide, we are poised to become a glob­al indus­tri­al cham­pi­on. Elec­tra already has the strongest tech­ni­cal team in the busi­ness – and now we have the finance, legal, and oper­a­tions expe­ri­ence to match.”

Lang­ford, who has served as both Chair­man and CEO since found­ing Elec­tra, will con­tin­ue to serve as its Chair­man focus­ing on long-term strat­e­gy and inno­va­tion.

“I am excit­ed to join Electra’s first-rate team and help define the next lev­el of air trav­el con­nec­tiv­i­ty,” said Allen. “My pas­sion has always been about build­ing, coach­ing, and inspir­ing high-per­form­ing teams. Elec­tra is at the fore­front of rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing air trav­el with its direct avi­a­tion mod­el, bring­ing air trav­el clos­er to where we live, work and play – with­out air­ports, emis­sions, or noise. Lead­ing Elec­tra at this piv­otal moment is a once-in-a-life­time oppor­tu­ni­ty.”

 About Elec­tra   

Electra.aero, Inc. (Elec­tra) is a next-gen aero­space com­pa­ny pio­neer­ing direct avi­a­tion, the next lev­el of con­nec­tiv­i­ty that will bring air trav­el clos­er to where we live, work, and play. The com­pa­ny is build­ing clean tech, hybrid-elec­tric Ultra Short air­planes that fly peo­ple and car­go seam­less­ly with­out air­ports, emis­sions, or noise. Elec­tra’s Ultra Short tech­nol­o­gy deliv­ers 2.5x the pay­load and 10X longer range with 70% low­er oper­at­ing costs than heli­copters and eVTOLs with far less cer­ti­fi­ca­tion risk. Elec­tra’s team includes some of the most respect­ed and suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs and engi­neers in nov­el air­craft design, with over 40 pri­or air­craft suc­cess­ful­ly devel­oped and/or cer­ti­fied. Lock­heed Mar­tin Ven­tures, Hon­ey­well, and Safran are among Electra’s strate­gic investors along with the Vir­ginia Inno­va­tion Part­ner­ship Cor­po­ra­tion (VIPC), Statkraft Ven­tures, and oth­er pri­vate investors. Electra’s con­tract­ed cus­tomers include NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy, along with over 2,000 air­craft under Let­ters of Intent from 50+ com­mer­cial cus­tomers, includ­ing both air­lines and heli­copter oper­a­tors.

Elec­tra’s appoint­ment of B. Marc Allen as CEO sig­nals a strate­gic move toward glob­al expan­sion and solid­i­fies its posi­tion as a leader in the elec­tric avi­a­tion indus­try. With Allen’s impres­sive back­ground and Elec­tra’s inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy, the com­pa­ny is well-equipped to make direct avi­a­tion a real­i­ty, trans­form­ing how we con­nect and trav­el. The future of air trav­el is tak­ing flight, and Elec­tra is at the fore­front. Stay tuned for the excit­ing devel­op­ments to come!  

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