Bye Aerospace CEO and Founder recognised as a 2020 Titan 100

Bye Aero­space CEO George E. Bye has been named a Titan 100, an inau­gur­al pro­gramme that recog­nis­es the top CEOs and C‑level exec­u­tives in Col­orado, USA, for their excep­tion­al lead­er­ship, vision and pas­sion.

In addi­tion to being the founder of Bye Aero­space, Bye is the inno­va­tor behind the com­pa­ny — with two decades of expe­ri­ence as an aero­space entre­pre­neur, engi­neer and exec­u­tive, lead­ing inter­nal devel­op­ment and research of advanced air­craft con­cepts.

It is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing FAR 23-cer­ti­fied gen­er­al avi­a­tion air­craft, start­ing with eFly­er 2, for the flight train­ing role. The eFly­er fam­i­ly of air­craft pro­duce no CO₂ — mak­ing them envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly.

Com­ment­ing on his recog­ni­tion, Bye said he was deeply hon­oured to be recog­nised. He added: “Bye Aero­space is on a quest to become the first com­pa­ny to FAA-cer­ti­fy an elec­tric air­plane under FAR 23. We appre­ci­ate the sup­port shown by the Col­orado busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, espe­cial­ly pro­grams like Titan 100 that recog­nise lead­ers for their tenac­i­ty and dri­ve.”

Bye is also a well-known elec­tric avi­a­tion pio­neer and con­cep­tu­al design engi­neer, who has been asked to con­sult with major OEMs on their advanced devel­op­ment pro­grammes. 

He has writ­ten arti­cles for indus­try jour­nals, text­books and pub­li­ca­tions, holds a B.S. in Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton and is an ATP rat­ed pilot with over 4,000 fly­ing hours.

He was also a USAF instruc­tor pilot in the super­son­ic T‑38 for Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Train­ing, C‑141B Air­craft Com­man­der and is a Desert Storm vet­er­an.

He, along with oth­er mem­bers of Titan 100, will be recog­nised at a spe­cial event on 10th Sep­tem­ber. The Titan 100 pro­gram is pre­sent­ed by Titan CEO and head­line spon­sor, Wipfli LLP.

Jaime Zaw­mon, Pres­i­dent of Titan CEO, added: “The Titan 100 are shap­ing the future of Colorado’s busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty by build­ing a dis­tin­guished rep­u­ta­tion that is unri­valed and pre­em­i­nent in their field.

“We proud­ly recog­nise the Titan 100 for their suc­cess­es and con­tri­bu­tions. We know that they will have a pro­found impact that makes an extra­or­di­nary dif­fer­ence for their cus­tomers and clients across the nation.”

The 2020 Titan 100 and their com­pa­nies col­lec­tive­ly employ more than 83,000 indi­vid­u­als and gen­er­ate over $56 bil­lion in annu­al rev­enue. They will be pub­lished in a lim­it­ed-edi­tion Titan 100 book and pro­filed online.