Chip Yates

Experience

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  Boeing

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

  Business Development / Licensing Executive

  Created and led an internal Boeing program to license aerospace technologies to the automotive and transportation sectors, partnered with Phantom Works and Boeing Ventures on a number of deals.Responsible for $80M of 90% GM new business for Boeing.Taught a corporate entrepreneurship seminar at the Boeing Leadership Center to company executives.

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  Honeywell

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2015

  Business Development / Licensing Executive

  Created an internal program to license Honeywell's Aerospace technologies and patents to the aerospace, transportation, automotive and marine sectors.Developed and led over $50M of new business for Honeywell by negotiating and closing deals with top aerospace companies as well as a number of automotive and marine technology companies.

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  Yates Electrospace Corporation

  Sept 2012 - now

  Founder & CEO

  AIRCRAFT DESIGN:• Electric Long-EZ | 2012 |EV propulsion creation | 193kW | 480V, 600A, 53kWh | KERS | 220mph | 3,000 ft/min | World’s Fastest | 1st to break 200mph | 3 Patents | 8 World Records | Seminal ePlane• Silent Arrow® GD-2000 | 2017 | Clean Sheet Design | 1,500 lbs payload | 8:1 L/D | Disposable Glider | 43 units built | 4 patents | >$3.5M contracts | Collier Finalist | Smithsonian Induction | Disruptive UAS• Silent Arrow® Widebody | 2019 | Clean Sheet Design | 2,000 lbs payload | 7.6:1 L/D | 140 cu/ft cargo | Foreign Program | U.S. Army 160th SOAR support | C-130, C-17 parachute extraction deployment• Silent Arrow® Precision Guided Bundle | 2022 | Clean Sheet Design | 350 lbs payload | FL450 Drop Alt | Telescoping Fuselage| 4 spring-deployed wings | SBIR I | SBIR II | 15 built | AFSOC funded programFLIGHT TEST:• FAA COAs (3) earned for Silent Arrow® flights up to 15,000’ MSL in the National Airspace | 16 FAA N-numbers | AFSOC C-130 drops | Drops from UH-1H and C-130H | C-130J, C-17, A400M and CASA C-295 in process | U.S. drops in FAA NAS and Restricted (NTTR) | C-130 Drops Middle East Air Base | Ardupilot customized firmware | SITL | Mission Planner | MAVLink | ATAK | Complex GCS opsDOD DEVELOPMENTAL EFFORTS:• Principal Investigator, U.S. DoD Warfighter Lab Incentive Fund (WLIF) contract “Special Operations Forces Logistical Autonomous Resupply Glider for Operations in contested Spaces” (SOF LARGOS).• Principal Investigator, SBIR Phase II, AF203-CS01, “Guided Bundle Derivative of Silent Arrow® for Side Door and Palletized Swarm Deployments at High Speeds and Altitudes”• Principal Investigator, SBIR Phase I, AF203-CS01, “Feasibility of Downsizing and Adapting Commercial Silent Arrow® Cargo Delivery UAS to Meet Specific AFSOC Operational Requirements”.• Principal Investigator, USSOCOM Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) “Silent Arrow Airdrop Development”, USSOCOM-SOF AT&L-ST-14-01-JS79. Show less