About

I help teams turn audacious product visions to reality. Across my experiences, I've gone zero-to-one on aircraft, robots, simulation systems, and more. I love finding data-driven ways to solve the toughest engineering and product challenges. And I know the highs and lows of launching a new startup. I'm looking forward to meeting you, seeing your product vision, and collaborating toward your first of many successes.

Experience

Launched a Deep Tech Start-up!

• Completed a substantial seed round with tier 1 institutional investors • Locked initial customers in the US Department of Defense

Patented 63 Inventions and Counting

• Designed and developed portfolios of intellectual property with strategies to form strong protective advantages

7th Member of Uber Elevate

• Head of Strategy with a team of data scientists, engineers, product analysts, and software developers • Forged partnerships across aircraft OEMs, government leaders, and the broader mobility industry

Links from Ian

Uber Air: Designing for the Community

In this paper, we communicated a way for Uber to engage stakeholders across industry, government, and academia to synergistically catalyze an equitable and greener tomorrow. This was key to opening up key conversations with the City of Los Angeles, the FAA, NASA, and many more.

Streetlight <> Uber OD Data Validation

In this public one-pager, I highlighted a collaborative effort between Uber, Streetlight Data, and the North Central Texas Council of Governments. This effort helped to bolster each organizations data credibility and show a responsible path towards an equitable new mobility product.

Moving Ridesharing Into the Sky: eVTOL Network Efficiency

On this webinar, I discussed Uber's data-driven efforts to enable aerial ridesharing together with Streetlight Data. Together, these insights shaped go-to-market strategies on market selection, infrastructure development, and regulatory collaboration.

Uber Air Vehicle Requirements & Missions

While at Uber Elevate, I co-authored a set of requirements for Uber's aerial ridesharing ambitions. We distilled numerous mobility, operational, and hardware insights into a compact set of requirements that helped drive over $3B into a nascent electric aviation industry. Leveraging this, I grew Uber's aircraft partner base to ten partners with big names like Boeing and Bell as well as promising startups like Joby Aviation and Beta Technologies.