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Mr Ivo Boscarol was born in 1956. He is a pilot and entrepreneur who laid the foundations for alternative flying in the home country and set the aviation standards on the global scale. He studied economy in Ljubljana in seventies, but he was attracted by aviation already in his youth, when he was engaged in sport flying and achieved many great successes, such as: 7 national champion titles in hang-glider and ultralight aircraft categories, 2 national speed records and 2 awards as Slovenian sportsman of the year. Boscarol registered Pipistrel as a trademark in 1987 and established the company in 1989, becoming the first private aircraft producer in the Balkans area. He made a crucial contribution to the establishment of a global aviation category “ultralight” by being the co-designer of many unique aircraft, among others: a line of world-class powered hang gliders, Taurus – world’s first two seat side-by-side ultralight motor glider, Sinus – the aircraft for the World Champion crew of 2001 and the record breaking flight around the world in 2004; Virus SW – double NASA Challenge award winner. For his contribution to aviation he was awarded with the FAI Paul Tissandier diploma. An avid environmentalist, Ivo directed the design of his aircraft into energy efficiency and has been one of the pioneers of electric propulsion for more than 15 years, being actively involved in developing:

– Taurus Electro, the world’s first 2-seat fully electric motorglider (2007);
– Taurus G4, world’s first 4-seat fully electric aircraft, which won the 1,3 Million USD NASA Challenge award;
– Alpha Electro, the first serially produced electric trainer (2014);
– Panthera, the first 4-seat hybrid propulsion aircraft;
– Hy4, the first 4-seat aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells (2016).

For his aviation and business achievements he received the highest civil award in the Republic of Slovenia: The President decorated him with the Golden Order for the services to the country in 2011. In 2017 he received the Knightly order “Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia” for cooperation between Slovenia and Italy. In 2018 he was awarded as “Living legends of aviation” for honouring achievements in the aerospace industry. Based on all outstanding results he obtained also several recognitions and annual nominations on national level as: Personality of Slovenia, Best entrepreneur, Best businessman & Best manager in Slovenia. For the last 6 years in the row he was voted the most trustable brand businessman in Slovenia. Nowadays Ivo dedicates his time to the leadership of Pipistrel group and development of new environment-friendly aircraft and concepts. Since 2014 he has been favouring the development of E-VTOL vehicles, on UBER “flying car” concept and revolutionary window-to-window air transport with autonomous electric vehicles, which would make city transport more efficient, safer and cleaner.

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Gabe Massey is president and managing director of Pipistrel, the award-winning global leader in electric aircraft. In his role, Massey leads Pipistrel’s executive team and oversees the company’s growth strategy, product development and integration within Textron. Gabe has gained significant integration experience throughout his career with Textron, managing strong international stakeholder relationships across employees, customers, suppliers and distributors. Massey recently served as vice president, Asia-Pacific Customer Service, at Textron Aviation, where he was responsible for the company’s service network in the Asia-Pacific region, including all company-owned maintenance facilities and authorized service facilities. Previously, he was general manager at Able Aerospace Services and held several positions at Bell, including integrated product team lead for the 525 Relentless program. Massey joined the Textron enterprise directly from University with Bell Canada. He then joined the Textron Leadership Development Program where he completed rotations with Textron Aviation, Lycoming and Textron Systems businesses. Massey holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

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Mr Tine Tomažič was born in 1983 and received his B.Sc and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2007 and 2014 respectively. A pilot since the age of 15, instructor since age 19 and test pilot since age 22, Tine has also flown in 8 different electric aircraft and participated in the development of five of them. Tine is a deep believer in electric flight and has dedicated his Ph.D Thesis, titled “Development of control strategies and systems to optimize flying with hybrid-powered aeroplanes” to research technologies to identify the future of electric flight, including distributed electric propulsion architectures, powertrain modeling, flight mission optimization. As a member of Pipistrel’s R&D team, Tine is responsible for the areas of electric flight- and electric-systems since 2007 and is Head of Design Organisation EASA DO 21J.524 and maintains credentials as Compliance Verification Engineer for Electric Powertrains, Systems and Flight Test. Tine has been appointed as the Director of Research and Development at Pipistrel as of 2015, which was in 2017 succeeded by PVS, and actively participates in developments of new standards for electric and hybrid electric general aviation aircraft and is a member EASA’s Technology-4-Safety advisory group.

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