Dan Sloat to lead Electro.Aero’s next chapter after joining company as President

Aus­tralia-based Electro.Aero has announced Dan Sloat as the com­pa­ny’s incom­ing Pres­i­dent.

Dan will lead the next phase of growth for the company’s glob­al busi­ness. This will include strength­en­ing team cul­ture, estab­lish­ing the US head office, ensur­ing con­tin­ued legal com­pli­ance and expand­ing busi­ness devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties.

The team will also be rais­ing a Pre-Series A round after many years of effi­cient boot­strap­ping, util­is­ing some of this growth cap­i­tal to tar­get attrac­tive near-term elec­tric charg­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties at cur­rent aero­dromes and air­ports.

Joshua Port­lock, Electro.Aero founder, said: “Electro.Aero has been hard at work ser­vic­ing our elec­tric air­craft cus­tomer needs for near­ly a decade, dili­gent­ly devel­op­ing crit­i­cal charg­ing solu­tions in the back­ground.

“With Dan Sloat com­ing onboard as our Pres­i­dent, now is the time to be more pub­lic about what we’ve done and are plan­ning to do in the near future to pro­vide enabling tech­nol­o­gy to the AAM indus­try!”

Industry Experience

Dan brings a wealth of lead­er­ship expe­ri­ence to the role. He is the founder of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Insti­tute, for­mer CEO of a US ver­ti­port com­pa­ny, advi­sor to the World Eco­nom­ic Forum AVIATE Com­mit­tee and pri­or US Air Force Cap­tain, where he earned a Human­i­tar­i­an Ser­vice Medal.

This year, he was also named a top elec­tric avi­a­tion indus­try leader in eVTOL Insights’ Power­book, along with Joshua, who was includ­ed in the 2022 edi­tion.

The Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Insi­tute were also award­ed ‘Com­mu­ni­ty Engage­ment Team of the Year’ at eVTOL Insights’ first Glob­al AAM Awards.

Com­ment­ing on this appoint­ment, Dan said: “What always impressed me about Electro.Aero was the all-in com­mit­ment to safe­ty and estab­lish­ing robust indus­try stan­dards.

“For exam­ple, Dr. Rudd, Head of Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, already helped the com­pa­ny achieve ISO 9001 qual­i­ty con­trol and 14001 envi­ron­men­tal cer­ti­fi­ca­tions. And Richie Wat­son, the CCO, serves as Chair­man of the AE-7D Air­craft Ener­gy Stor­age and Charg­ing Com­mit­tee to har­mo­nize inter­na­tion­al efforts.

“I am pro­found­ly hum­bled to be entrust­ed with such respon­si­bil­i­ty and I will work tire­less­ly to advo­cate for wide­spread acces­si­bil­i­ty in AAM oper­a­tions. Elec­tric charg­ing infra­struc­ture is the foun­da­tion.”

Company Background

Electro.Aero Pty Ltd is an elec­tric avi­a­tion charg­ing infra­struc­ture firm estab­lished in 2014

As the world’s only spe­cial­ized inde­pen­dent sup­pli­er of air­craft charg­ing solu­tions, the com­pa­ny is design­ing, build­ing and sup­port­ing the best-in-class tech­nol­o­gy through­out the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem.

In 2018, the com­pa­ny launched the first com­mer­cial oper­a­tions of an elec­tric air­craft in his­to­ry. Two years lat­er, the team con­duct­ed the first off-grid rapid charg­ing and by 2022, had facil­i­tat­ed the record-set­ting longest hybrid elec­tric flight.

With com­pact portable RAPID AC-DC Charg­ers in pro­duc­tion rang­ing from 40kW to 240kW and plans to devel­op 640kW portable DC dis­pensers with active ther­mal man­age­ment too, Electro.aero believes it is the clear choice for safe and reli­able elec­tric avi­a­tion charg­ing needs.