Our Team
The Founders
Savion’s founders met at M.I.T. while undergraduates in aerospace engineering. They later worked together in Boeing's New Airplane Product development group as aerodynamicists. When they realized Boeing's R&D efficiency improvements (~1% / year) were insignificant compared to increases in oil prices (50–100% / year), the Savion journey began.
Jonathan Gibbs
Co-founder / President
Jonathan worked as a researcher for Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Hamburg, Germany, the M.I.T. Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment and as an aerodynamicist in Boeing’s New Airplane Product Development group (NAPD). Jon holds a S.B and S.M. in Aerospace Engineering from M.I.T. and is completing a dissertation on Savion's novel Inverse Aircraft Design Method for TUHH in Hamburg, Germany.
Adrian Townsend
Co-Founder / Chief of Aerodynamics
Adrian worked as an Aerodynamicist in Boeing’s New Airplane product Development group, in CFD software sales for Mentor Graphics and as a Thermal Engineer for Amazon. Adrian holds an S.B in Aerospace Engineering from M.I.T. and a masters in applied mathematics from the University of Washington.
Ville
Advisor
Former CEO of Finnair. As CEO, he successfully restructured the company to profitability.
David
Propulsion Lead
7 years of propulsion design and certification experience at Cessna and Icon Aircraft.
Jim
Avionics Lead
20+ years of writing FAA-approved software for Garmin, Avidyne, and F-35 flight decks.
Chaker
Advisor
Former VP and General Manager of Marketing at GE Aviation
Paul
Advisor
Former CEO of the Quest Aircraft Company. Led development of the Quest Kodiak from conception to production certification. Paul led Quest to become one of the only successful aircraft startups in the previous decade.
Lauren
Chief Pilot
Air Force remote pilot instructor (RQ-4) and current airline pilot.
Buerebista
Advisor
21 years of fuel system design with Westport and BluLNG.