BOOM - Key Persons

Adam Dubas - SVP

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Certified Public Accountant
Finance
Member of the Management Team
Senior Vice President of Finance
SVP

As Senior Vice President of Finance, Adam leads the finance, accounting & strategic capital teams at Boom. Adam brings 20+ years of experience in finance, accounting, and investor relations leadership roles. Adam is a Certified Public Accountant and earned his B.S. in Accounting and Finance from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where he graduated with highest distinction. Outside of work, Adam enjoys traveling with his wife and two daughters to the Colorado mountains and Florida beaches.

Anderson Sullivan

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Member of the Management Team
Director of Flight Sciences for the Overture Program

Anne Fenice - CHRO

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Chief People Officer
Member of the Management Team

Anthony Atwood - VP

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Creative Director
Member of the Management Team
Vice President

As Vice President Creative Director, Anthony plays an integral role in how the Boom brand is experienced and represented across all facets of the user journey. He's a respected leader with over 17 years of design and creative leadership experience.

Ben Murphy

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Member of the Management Team
VP, Sustainability

Ben Murphy combines his passion for supersonic propulsion systems and the environment as Boom's Vice President of Sustainability. Prior to this role, Ben's career at Boom has been dedicated to propulsion system design, analysis, and testing, with an eye towards sustainability. He led operability and performance testing of the J85 engine used in XB-1, including testing using >50% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blends and continues to lead Boom's SAF and net zero strategies. Ben represents Boom on the International Civil Aviation Organization Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (ICAO/CAEP) WG1 and WG3, supporting noise and emission standards. He also serves as the chair for the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA) Supersonic Subcommittee, working with the broader industry to identify and promote common sustainability goals. Ben supports a number of supersonic research efforts including university efforts through the FAA's Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT). Before joining Boom in 2017, Ben worked at GE Aviation supporting flight tests and supersonic engine development, including engines used on the F-15, F-16, and new programs. Ben holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Outside of work, he can be found in the mountains, skiing and rock climbing.

Bill "Doc" Shoemaker

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Member of the Management Team
Chief Test Pilot

Blake Scholl - CEO, Founder

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CEO
Founder
Member of the Management Team

Blake Scholl founded Boom Supersonic in September 2014 with the goal of making high-speed travel mainstream and enabling a new world of human connection. Blake is passionate about tackling big problems which the world has overlooked. After seeing Concorde in a museum, he dreamed of the return of commercial supersonic flight. A few years later, Blake dove into aerospace engineering-reading textbooks and taking classes-to figure out from first principles how to enable a supersonic renaissance. As a leader, Blake focuses on inspiring the best people from a range of disciplines to unite in pursuit of Boom's vision. Prior to founding Boom, Blake held leadership roles at Amazon and Groupon and co-founded mobile technology startup Kima Labs. He started his career at Amazon as a software engineer in 2001, where he developed software for personalized and automated merchandising and later owned a $300M P&L at age 24. Blake pioneered the automation of digital ad buying, enabling advertisers to build their own "long tail" by promoting niche products to relevant customers. Later, Blake was the first employee and director of product development at Kleiner-backed mobile startup Pelago. In 2010, he co-founded mobile technology startup Kima Labs, which was acquired by Groupon in 2012. At Groupon, Blake held multiple executive roles, culminating in responsibility for relevance, email, and search. Blake's interest in aviation started in childhood-he grew up in suburban Cincinnati, where his parents often took him to the local airport to watch Cessnas take off and land. He started flying for fun in college, earning his private pilot license in 2008 and instrument rating in 2011. Blake holds a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University; he lives in Denver and is the father of three.

Bob Stohrer - CMO

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Chief Marketing Officer
Member of the Management Team
As Chief Marketing Officer

As Chief Marketing Officer, Bob Stohrer leads the strategy and execution of Boom's brand and growth across all global marketing initiatives, including brand strategy and management, marketing communications, strategic partnerships, public relations, and events. During his 30-year career, Bob has held leadership positions in marketing and branding at the National Football League, Yahoo, and Sprint. He has served as Chief Marketing Officer at Virgin Mobile, iHeartRadio, Canary, and most recently, Kangaroo. He has played a pivotal role in the growth and success of several startups, including Virgin Mobile where he was integral to the company's rise and eventual IPO. Bob attended Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, particularly when it's around saltwater or snow.

Brian Durrence

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Chief Development Officer
Member of the Management Team
As Boom 's Chief Development Officer

As Boom's Chief Development Officer, Brian Durrence leads the company's development organizations and is focused on the advancement of Boom's products and services and their real world application.

Brian Lojko

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Member of the Management Team
VP, Overture Chief Engineer

Chris Baksa

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Member of the Management Team
Senior Director, Aircraft Integration

Chris Chadwick

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Member of the Management Team
VP, Supply Chain

Chris Taylor

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Member of the Management Team
Vice President of Manufacturing for the Overture Program
VP, Manufacturing / Engineering

Chris Taylor is Boom's Vice President of Manufacturing for the Overture Program. In this role, Chris is responsible for developing the manufacturing facilities, processes and delivering completed aircraft into the flight test program and, ultimately, to our customers. Chris has spent 39 years in various Manufacturing and Program Management roles at Gulfstream Aerospace. He has led Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling, Tool Design and NC Programming teams in various Gulfstream facilities in Savannah, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. For the last 6 years he has served as Director of Gulfstream's Operation Engineering team which included the Manufacturing Planning, Operations Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing groups. Chris graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

David Hunter

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Member of the Management Team
Senior Director, Enterprise Technology

Dr. Mark J. Lewis

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Member of the Board
Executive Director of the National Defense Industrial Association 's Emerging Technologies Institute

Dr. Mark J. Lewis is the Executive Director of the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI), a non-partisan think tank focused on critical national defense technologies. He is best known for his expertise in hypersonic aircraft and has spent more than 35 years conducting advanced research into high-speed propulsion, aerodynamics, space vehicle design and optimization. Today, Dr. Lewis leads research and analyses to inform the development and integration of emerging technologies into the defense industrial base. Immediately prior to his current position, Dr. Lewis was Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Department of Defense (DoD) and acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, overseeing technology modernization for all Services and DoD agencies. As the Pentagon's senior-most scientist, Dr. Lewis managed a $17B budget that included DARPA, the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Innovation Unit, as well as the Space Development Agency, and oversaw the DoD Federally-funded Research and Development Centers and the Department's basic and applied research portfolio. Dr. Lewis is a former department chair and current professor emeritus of aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland.

Eli Oleksiak

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Member of the Management Team
Senior Director of Avionics & Electrical Systems Engineering
Senior Director, Avionics & Electrical Systems

Erin Young

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Member of the Management Team
Lead Engineer, Mechanical Systems

General William M. Fraser III

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Administrator

Will Fraser is a proven strategic leader, administrator, and communicator. He is a highly decorated retired General of the United States Air Force and landed at the pinnacle of the United States Military as one of nine Combatant Commanders. During 40 years of service, he held a variety of demanding command and staff positions. He has led large-scale, diverse, global organizations where he earned a reputation as a motivational leader, strategic thinker and change agent who delivered solutions to the most complex challenges. As Commander, United States Transportation Command-a Unified, Combatant Command-he answered directly to the President of the United States and Secretary of Defense and served as the single manager responsible for global air, land, and maritime transport for the Department of Defense. As Commander, Air Combat Command, the largest major command in the Air Force, he was responsible for organizing, training, equipping and maintaining combat ready forces while ensuring strategic air defense forces were ready to meet the challenges of peacetime air sovereignty and wartime defense. As Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, he presided over the Air Staff and served as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Requirements Oversight Council and Deputy Advisory Working Group. As Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he represented the Chairman or Vice Chairman in the White House, traveled internationally as an advisor to the Secretary of State and served as the Middle East Peace Process Roadmap Monitor. His extensive experience in wartime, contingency and humanitarian relief operations includes Operation Southern and Northern Watch, Operation Desert Thunder, Operation Allied Force, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. He is currently a Strategic Advisor for the Sierra Nevada Corporation, Atlantic Strategies Group, Knight Aerospace, Sarcos Technology and Robotics, Veelo Technologies, a member of the National Security Space Advisory Board for the Sierra Space Corporation and a Senior Fellow for National Defense University, and an Adjunct Contract Professor for the Air Force. Additionally, he is an Outside Director for CEVA Government Services and is serving on the Texas A&M University (TAMU) President's Board of Visitors, TAMU Galveston Board of Visitors, and TAMU Association of Former Students Leadership Council.

Greg Krauland

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Member of the Management Team
Chief Engineer, XB - 1

Jeff "Legs" Mabry

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Member of the Management Team
VP, XB - 1

Jeff "Legs" Mabry is a former USAF test pilot, and graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School. As Boom's Vice President of XB-1, he is responsible for leading the team that designed, built, and is currently testing the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator. Prior to Boom, Jeff spent time as a test director on a Department of Defense (DoD) flight test program and also helped Airbus build a team from the ground up for the flight test of the Vahana unmanned aircraft. Jeff's 21-year career in the Air Force was focused on flying and testing. He initially flew HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters as a Combat Search and Rescue Pilot and completed four deployments to Turkey and Kuwait. After test pilot school, he held the role of operations officer and commander for three Air Force units overseeing developmental flight test for many different aircraft including the HH-60G, X-47B, and RQ-4. During that time he was also an instructor for USAF Test Pilot School, flying both helicopters and airplanes with students. His last assignment before leaving the military was as the commander of a flight test support squadron with a fleet of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. Jeff is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and holds a Master's Degree from Embry Riddle. He was a Command Pilot in the Air Force with over 2,500 hours in 33 aircraft types. Jeff currently holds FAA commercial and instrument ratings for multiengine land and rotorcraft-helicopter.

Jeff Holden

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Member of the Board
Co - Founder of Atomic Machines

Jeff Holden is the co-founder of Atomic Machines and former Chief Product Officer at Uber. Holden founded the Advanced Technology Group that developed Uber's self-driving technology, led the development of Uber Eats, and spearheaded the Uber Elevate urban air transportation initiative. As co-founder and CEO of Pelago, he brought Amazon-like recommendation technology to the real world to help people discover and experience the best their cities have to offer. Earlier in his career, Holden led the development of Amazon Prime as SVP of Consumer Applications.Jeff Holden is the co-founder of Atomic Machines and former Chief Product Officer at Uber. Holden founded the Advanced Technology Group that developed Uber's self-driving technology, led the development of Uber Eats, and spearheaded the Uber Elevate urban air transportation initiative. As co-founder and CEO of Pelago, he brought Amazon-like recommendation technology to the real world to help people discover and experience the best their cities have to offer. Earlier in his career, Holden led the development of Amazon Prime as SVP of Consumer Applications.