Over the previous few years, we’ve been working onerous to point out what a scaled-up drone supply system will seem like. We’ve demonstrated a service that delivers upwards of 1,000 packages a day – or roughly one each 25 seconds. Earlier this 12 months, we unveiled the Wing Supply Community – our subsequent technology operational mannequin which is designed to allow high-volume drone supply throughout main metro areas and can allow Wing to help hundreds of thousands of deliveries within the coming years. And only recently, we introduced a partnership with Walmart that represents our largest enlargement thus far within the U.S. – bringing our service inside attain of 60,000 folks within the Dallas space.
As we take one other step towards scale, we’re excited to share two key appointments to the Wing management crew.
Martín Gomez has joined Wing as our new Chief Expertise Officer (CTO). Martín will play an integral position main Wing’s know-how groups, particularly specializing in flight automation and software program – two essential parts of the Wing Supply Community. Martín is becoming a member of a proficient technical crew at Wing and can assist drive the improvements wanted to deliver the advantages of drone supply to extra folks.
Martín joins Wing after a protracted profession at Aurora Flight Sciences, the place he was most lately Senior Chief Engineer. He has labored as an engineer and technical chief for 40 years, throughout the fields of uncrewed plane techniques, spacecraft, and embedded techniques improvement.
Additionally becoming a member of Wing as International Head of Partnerships is Cosimo Leipold. On this position, Cosimo will lead our business-to-business enlargement efforts and partnerships with different organizations who share our imaginative and prescient for a multi-modal supply system that harnesses the ability of the sky above us to maneuver small packages safely, effectively, and conveniently. At Wing, a most important focus of Cosimo’s might be serving to retailers combine automated drone supply in a zero-friction approach to notice the paradigm shift that Wing’s supply represents.
Cosimo is not any stranger to next-generation transportation options. He joins Wing after seven years at Nuro, a number one on-road autonomous supply firm, the place he was a founding member. At Nuro, Cosimo led each the Technique and Partnerships groups and helped the corporate safe multi-million greenback offers with among the world’s finest identified manufacturers, together with Walmart, Kroger, and UberEATS.
Be part of us in welcoming Martín and Cosimo to the Wing crew as we proceed to deliver drone supply to extra companions and communities across the globe!
Martín,
What excited you most about becoming a member of Wing?
I’m extremely excited to affix the robust technical crew at Wing that has constructed and matured such a revolutionary drone supply platform. My focus might be on supporting the crew, constructing robust leaders, and ensuring the appropriate course of and construction are in place to assist all the group proceed to innovate.
If you happen to’re not at work, the place are you?
Most likely in my hangar! I’m an aviation “nut” and a dyed within the wool engineer. If I’m not in my hangar, there’s a great likelihood I’m flying!
Cosimo
What excited you most about becoming a member of Wing?
I’m most excited by what Wing can deliver to our companions. A lot has been mentioned of the autonomous revolution, however for years it’s typically been a query of “if”, “when” or “the place” this may occur. For Wing, it’s now not a query of if autonomous know-how can have an effect, now not a query of when, and now not a query of the place. The know-how merely works, the enterprise case is compelling, and the system is able to working practically anyplace on earth. The chance for us to ship each significant financial savings and sturdy strategic benefits to our companions is right here.
If you happen to’re not at work, the place are you?
All issues outside – Snowboarding, scuba diving, or mountain climbing!