Preview: DroneWaves airs April 30

Bobby Healy, CEO and co-founder, Manna

For the last three years, Healy has been building Manna, a drone delivery as a service business for the world with which he plans to revolutionize the world of online food and pharmacy delivery by making a three-minute, low-cost drone delivery service as pervasive as running water.

Chris Jarvis, chief logistics officer, GoFor Delivers

Jarvis is a futuristic and strategic “big picture” thinker who is passionate about the pragmatic operational approaches needed to deliver commercially viable solutions that work in today’s increasingly complex business situations. His strong communication skills, combined with change management leadership, work to achieve organizational alignment and the realization of value.

Josh Goldstein, director of business development and partnerships, UrbanFootprint

Goldstein has nearly a decade of experience building technology companies working on hard public sector problems. He was the co-founder and CEO of the Department of Better Technology, which was acquired by CityBase, and chief product officer at CityBase, which was acquired by GTYH.

Michael Drozd, CEO, AgEagle Aerial Systems

For the past three decades, Drozd has earned distinction as an accomplished business leader with a proven reputation for business building, market development, product commercialization, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Parimal Kopardekar, director, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute

Kopardekar is responsible for exploring new trends and needs related to aviation in the areas of autonomy, aeronautics manufacturing and advanced air mobility. He also serves as NASA’s senior technologist for Air Transportation Systems and principal investigator for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Project.

Sam Macdonald, president, Deep Trekker Inc.

After more than 15 years refining her skills in sales, marketing and leadership, including eight years of applications engineering in the robotics automation industry, Macdonald put her passion for technology to work. In 2010, she partnered with Jeff Lotz to bring Deep Trekker’s underwater robotics to the world.

Yariv Bash, co-founder and CEO, Flytrex Aviation

Flytrex provides autonomous drone delivery solutions for the food and retail sectors and was the first company to deploy a B2C drone delivery system in an urban environment. Flytrex is now taking part in the FAA’s prestigious commercial drone pilot program.