Megha Bhatia joins Eve Air Mobility as its new Chief Commercial Officer

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has appoint­ed Megha Bha­tia as the company’s new Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer (CCO). 

Bha­tia, who will be based in Mel­bourne, will over­see the company’s glob­al sales, mar­ket intel­li­gence, and gov­ern­ment rela­tions. 

She brings a wealth of expe­ri­ence from her pre­vi­ous role as Chief Strat­e­gy Offi­cer at Jet Sup­port Ser­vices (JSSI), where her strate­gic ini­tia­tives played a key role in dri­ving sales and enabling cross-func­tion­al data inte­gra­tion across busi­ness units. 

Com­ment­ing on her appoint­ment, Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, said: “Megha’s exten­sive expe­ri­ence and strate­gic lead­er­ship are going to be instru­men­tal as Eve pre­pares for LOI con­ver­sion into firm orders.

“Her abil­i­ty to dri­ve growth, man­age large P&Ls, and lead high-per­form­ing teams, com­bined with her deep under­stand­ing of the avi­a­tion indus­try, make her an invalu­able addi­tion to our exec­u­tive team. As we con­tin­ue to advance the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) ecosys­tem, Megha’s exper­tise will play a cru­cial role [in] reach­ing our goals with team ini­tia­tives and dri­ving sus­tain­able growth.”

Before join­ing JSSI, Bha­tia spent over a decade at Rolls-Royce, hold­ing var­i­ous lead­er­ship roles, includ­ing Vice Pres­i­dent of Sales & Mar­ket­ing for Busi­ness Avi­a­tion. 

Express­ing her enthu­si­asm for the role, Bha­tia added: “I am thrilled to join Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, a pio­neer­ing com­pa­ny at the fore­front of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, ded­i­cat­ed to trans­form­ing how peo­ple trav­el.” 

“As an indus­try leader, EVE is craft­ing a com­pre­hen­sive ecosys­tem of cut­ting-edge prod­ucts and solu­tions, where state-of-the-art eVTOLs are seam­less­ly inte­grat­ed with safe oper­a­tions and opti­mised agnos­tic sys­tems, includ­ing mod­ern air traf­fic man­age­ment.

“I am proud to become a part of the tal­ent­ed team at EVE, work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly to advance EVE’s holis­tic strat­e­gy that sup­ports our exten­sive glob­al cus­tomer base that fos­ters endur­ing growth,” she added. 

Eve Air Mobility’s mile­stones

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty cur­rent­ly holds the industry’s largest back­log, with let­ters of intent for 2,900 eVTOL air­craft, rep­re­sent­ing a poten­tial $14.5 bil­lion in rev­enue from 30 cus­tomers across 13 coun­tries. 

In addi­tion to air­craft, the com­pa­ny has secured agree­ments with 14 ser­vice and oper­a­tions cus­tomers in nine coun­tries and signed pre­lim­i­nary deals for its urban air traf­fic man­age­ment solu­tion, Vec­tor, with 17 cus­tomers across nine coun­tries. 

Dur­ing the Future Avi­a­tion Forum held in Riyadh in May, Eve Air Mobil­i­ty signed a mem­o­ran­dum of agree­ment (MoA) with Saudia Tech­nic, the engi­neer­ing arm of the Saudia group, to explore the poten­tial demand for eVTOL main­te­nance, repair, and over­haul (MRO) activ­i­ties in the region. 

Addi­tion­al­ly, the company’s diverse port­fo­lio of ser­vices and oper­a­tional solu­tions has recent­ly reached a mile­stone with the assem­bly of its first full-scale eVTOL pro­to­type at the Embraer test facil­i­ty in Gav­ião Peixo­to, São Paulo State. It has also com­plet­ed the selec­tion of pri­ma­ry sup­pli­ers for its eVTOL air­craft.