Meet the innovators behind the flight

Get to know Electra’s team committed to making air travel cleaner and more accessible. Electra’s team combines decades of experience in developing novel aircraft.

The leadership team

B. Marc Allen

James "JP" Stewart

SVP Product Development

Max Ochoa

Chief Financial Officer

Diana Siegel

VP Commercial Programs

Donn Yates

VP Government Programs

Marc Ausman

VP Sales & Support

Chris Courtin, PhD

Director, Technology Development

Patrick Schilling

Chief Engineer, Pre-Production

Buddy Sessoms

VP of Test, Validation, and Certification

Alejandra Uranga, PhD

Chief Engineer, Research & Future Concepts

Bill Rogers

EL9 Chief Engineer

Randy Griffith

Director of Certification

Barbara Zadina

Senior Communications Manager

Board of directors and advisors

John S. Langford, III

Founder & Board Chairman

B. Marc Allen

Board Director

President & CEO

Jay Park

Board Director

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Prysm Capital

Kirsten Bartok Touw

Board Director

Managing Partner, AirFinance

Yannick Bonnaire

Board Director

Group SVP Innovation and President, Safran

Doug Brown

Board Director

Retired 4-star US Army General

Jim Albaugh

Board Advisor

Former CEO, Boeing Commercial

Paulo Silva

Board Advisor

Former Group CEO, Embraer

R. John Hansman, PhD

Senior Technical Advisor

T. Wilson Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT

Mark Drela, PhD

Technical Advisor

Terry J. Kohler Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT

Oliver Masefield, PhD

Engineering Advisor

President & Principal Engineer, SolvAero Consulting