At L-3 Geneva Aerospace our executive team includes a broad range of management, operations, sales and financial experience building and running businesses in many technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles and advanced flight technologies. We take a business as well as a technical approach to our customer's unmanned vehicle challenges thanks to our broad management experience as:

• Aerospace executives
• Telecommunications experts
• Commercial product executives
• Defense program managers
• Missile guidance experts
• Industry-leading engineers

David A. Felio
President
David Felio co-founded Geneva Aerospace®, where he serves as president. Since starting the company in 1997, Felio has overseen its growth into a profitable multi-million-dollar business with a national customer base.

Prior to founding Geneva, Felio enjoyed a productive 15-year technical career at Raytheon Systems Company, where he developed autonomous guided weapons systems and specialized in automatic flight controls. As a member of the Group Technical Staff for both Raytheon and Texas Instruments Defense Systems, Felio worked on anti-radiation homing missiles, GPS inertial guided smart weapons, cruise missile systems and cannon-launched smart munitions.

After leaving Raytheon, Felio gained valuable experience in hi-tech small business start-ups participating in the initial planning and development of a revolutionary low-cost satellite booster rocket company.

Felio holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in control theory from the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University.

Sean Fitzgerald
Vice President of Operations
As vice president of operations for Geneva Aerospace®, Sean Fitzgerald offers more than 22 years of experience in all aspects of operations management for defense, network security and telecom companies.

Prior to joining Geneva, Fitzgerald held several positions in the Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group, including industrial engineering supervisor, production engineering manager, manufacturing manager and manufacturing operations manager. At SpectraPoint Wireless and Ceterus Networks, he held the position of supply chain manager.

Before that, Fitzgerald worked at Intrusion Inc., where he was first director of project management. He later became the company's vice president of operations, where he was responsible for supply chain management including planning, purchasing, inventory control, order entry and fulfillment, configuration management, product documentation and project management.

Fitzgerald earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Texas Tech University.

Judy Heike
Controller
Judy Heike serves as controller for Geneva. She offers extensive experience in financial management for start-up companies.

Heike was a founding member and controller of the U.S. subsidiary of a Danish company, Olicom A/S, specializing in the manufacturing and distribution of token ring cards. As a key team member, she helped the subsidiary grow into a $60 million company in five years.

In 1994, Heike left Olicom and joined a startup team, which provided financial management for fledgling high-tech firms. In 2003, she joined Geneva.

Heike graduated cum laude with a bachelor's of science degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She continued her education while working in sales and completed her master's degree in science and master's of business administration at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a certified public accountant.

Jerry Petersen
Vice President of Engineering
Jerry Petersen co-founded Geneva Aerospace®, where he serves as vice president of engineering. At Geneva, Petersen has gained expertise in real-time embedded systems design, integration and testing for autonomous vehicle systems and has managed UAV system programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research.

Prior to joining Geneva, Petersen worked in the Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group, where he was a staff guidance and control engineer. There he developed guidance and control system algorithms, simulation models and embedded real-time flight software for the Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) system. Petersen also designed guidance and control algorithms for several JSOW variants and performed aerodynamic and airframe configuration optimizations for the Extended Range Guided Munitions (ERGM) program. His work at TI also involved support of several missile flight test programs, along with support of several subsonic, transonic and supersonic wind tunnel tests.

Petersen earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, as well as a master's degree in engineering with special emphasis in advanced control theories, from Texas A&M University.

David Duggan
Vice President of Business Development
David Duggan co-founded Geneva Aerospace®, where he serves as vice president of business development. Duggan is the company's senior guidance and control systems specialist. He also directs the firm's business development activities.

While working at Geneva, Duggan has performed research in advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and uninhabited combat air vehicle (UCAV) flight control systems design, as well as research in UAV/UCAV human systems interface design. While at Geneva, Duggan has managed several UAV system programs for customers including U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories, the Office of Naval Research and Naval Air Systems Command.

During his undergraduate studies, Duggan participated in a work-study program as an intern for Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group (DSEG). Upon graduation, he went to work full-time for TI as a guidance and control (G&C) engineer working on the flight control system design for the Joint Stand-Off Weapon system. Duggan designed missile guidance algorithms and control systems for several TI weapon systems, including the High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM), the Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW), and several JSOW variants. He was a member of the Group Technical Staff, an elite community of technologists within the corporation. During his career at TI, he achieved several prominent leadership roles, including the G&C systems engineering lead for the Interdiction Weapons Division. He also received several awards at TI, including the Technical Award for Excellence in 1998 and the site Quality Award for Excellence in 1995.

Duggan earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. He has co-authored and was the co-instructor for the University of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Short Course, "Autonomous Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Simulation".