ROUTE DYNAMICS CORP

SAVING FLIGHT TIME...AND THE PLANET.

BOARD MEMBERS

Route Dynamics Corp. Board of Directors Member
Dr. George Hunter
Chairman of the Board & Chief Scientist
FULL BIO

Chairman of the Board & Chief Scientist of Nexteon Technologies, Inc.

Route Dynamics Corp. Board of Directors Member
Dr. Jill Wittels
Board Member
FULL BIO

Chief Executive Officer & Chief Operating Officer of Nexteon Technologies, Inc.

Route Dynamics Corp. Board of Directors Member
Rob Kaimowitz
Board Member
FULL BIO

President & Chief Strategy Officer of Nexteon Technologies, Inc.

Route Dynamics Corp. Board of Directors Member
Robert Briskman
Board Member
FULL BIO

Former CTO & Executive VP of Sirius XM Radio

Route Dynamics Corp. Board of Directors Member
Dixon Doll, Jr.
Board Member
FULL BIO

Managing Director, Longstreet Ventures

Dr. George Hunter
Dr. George Hunter
Chairman of the Board & Chief Scientist

Dr. Hunter has over 30 years of research, development and management experience in aerospace engineering, and is a nationally recognized expert in air traffic control engineering. George was Sr. Vice President at Seagull Technology, Inc. - a Silicon Valley startup engineering firm where he led both systems and software engineering groups. He has also been involved in several startup ventures, including both software and launch vehicle concepts. Prior to working at Seagull Technology, Dr. Hunter held defense positions at Lockheed and TRW in satellite engineering. His engineering expertise includes: aircraft flight mechanics and trajectory analysis, air traffic control, aviation meteorology, optimal estimation, software development, economic benefits, satellite structural dynamics, orbital mechanics and launch vehicle performance.

Dr. Hunter has published over 60 conference and journal papers. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Jill Wittels
Dr. Jill Wittels
Board Member

Dr. Wittels is an experienced strategic thinker specializing in technology-driven businesses. She has served as a board director and consultant, and has experience in business plan execution and development, innovation, new business initiatives, acquisitions, partnership and license agreement negotiations and executive management. Jill has worked with early-stage startups as well as established companies seeking transformative growth. Over the course of her career, Jill has built a knowledge base across a myriad of areas including strategic growth initiatives, negotiations, business plan development, business strategy, technology trends, big data, cyber issues, M&A, finance, diversity/demographics, social media, sustainability and globalization.

For nearly 11 years through July 2011, Dr. Wittels was Corporate VP Business & Technology Strategy at L-3 Communications. Her portfolio included corporate and business unit strategy development, business case development for innovative strategic thrusts, and assessment of technologies and influence management. Prior to L-3, Jill held management positions including Business Unit President, Business Unit GM, Vice President of Night Vision Products, Vice President of Engineering and Director of Programs. Jill earned her SB and PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rob Kaimowitz
Rob Kaimowitz
Board Member

Mr. Kaimowitz has 25 years of experience being strategically involved at the intersection of Wall St. and the commercial aerospace industry. Rob's Wall Street career gained traction as the #1 ranked analyst in Commercial Space & Satellite Communications. He participated in research, strategic development and institutional capital raises for the world’s leading Commercial Satellite & Space companies including: DirecTV, DISH Network, EchoStar Communications, Eutelsat, Globalstar, Hughes Electronics/Hughes Networks, Globecomm Systems, ICO Global, Inmarsat, Loral Space, Orion Network Systems, SS/L, SES, Sirius & XM, SpaceHab, ViaSat - plus many others.

Robert Briskman
Robert Briskman
Board Member

Mr. Briskman co-founded Sirius XM Radio as Satellite CD Radio Inc. in 1991. During his career with Sirius, he served as the company’s Technical Executive, Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Engineering, where he was responsible for the development, implementation and operation of Sirius’s broadcast distribution system. He also supervised the launch of three Sirius satellites and designed their operational orbital constellation. Previously, Mr. Briskman directed the implementation of satellite telecommunications systems at COMSAT and NASA for more than three decades.

Mr Briskman is currently the President of GuardianSat, which is implementing his patent which allows satellites to avoid collision with orbital debris. He also serves as the President of TEC, which provides technical assistance to aerospace companies. He is the recipient of multiple space industry awards and has been inducted into the Halls of Fame of the Space Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association, the International Astronautical Federation, the University of Maryland Innovation and the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).

Dixon Doll, Jr.
Dixon Doll, Jr.
Board Member

Mr. Doll is a renowned entrepreneur, private investor, and senior executive in the finance and technology industries.  Since 2003, he has served as Managing Director of Longstreet Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture seed fund and technology startup incubator.  He is also a limited partner in multiple funds operated by DCM, a multi-billion-dollar global stage-agnostic investment firm, and Ten Eleven Ventures, a $1B cybersecurity firm backed by KKR.

Mr. Doll has decades of experience in institutional fundraising, M&A, and taking companies public.  From 2020 until 2022, he was founder and Co-CEO of ROMAN DBDR, a publicly-traded $230M SPAC.  During his tenure, the company successfully launched Compo Secure, a leading FinTech company specializing in payment cards and digital assets storage.  Mr. Doll also founded and served as CEO of DBM Cloud Systems in 2016, a pioneer in data replication and management software.  Prior to DBM, he was COO and Director of Violin Memory, a memory storage company, and an angel investor in data security company FireEye, which went public in 2013.  Mr. Doll has served as a senior executive in sales and business development roles in numerous software technology companies, including Fusion-io, Recourse Technologies, and New Era of Networks.  He began his career in technology at Oracle in 1994, where he won numerous sales awards and helped expand the company’s US Business Alliances program.

Mr. Doll is a graduate of Georgetown University and received an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School.

Route Dynamics Corp. Strategic Advisory Board Member
Dixon Doll, Sr.
FULL BIO

Founder & Partner Emeritus, DCM Capital

Route Dynamics Corp. Strategic Advisory Board Member
Philip Friedman
FULL BIO

Head of the Aerospace and Defense M&A Advisory Practice at Perella Weinberg Partners

Route Dynamics Corp. Strategic Advisory Board Member
Arden Armstrong
FULL BIO

Founder of Redstone Management and Former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Asset Management

Route Dynamics Corp. Strategic Advisory Board Member
Andrea Fischer Newman
FULL BIO

Former Senior Vice President - Government Affairs, Delta Airlines

Route Dynamics Corp. Strategic Advisory Board Member
Michael Huerta
FULL BIO

FAA Administrator 2013-2018

Strategic Advisory Board Members
Dixon Doll, Sr.
Chairman of the Advisory Board

Mr. Doll currently is an independent advisor and private investor. For more than 40 years, he has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer, communications, and internet industries. In the mid 1980s, Dixon cofounded the VC industry's first fund focused on telecom while at Accel Partners. Following his tenure at Accel, Dixon founded DCM, formerly (Doll Capital Management), where he built a top global VC firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Tokyo. DCM is widely regarded as the first Silicon Valley venture firm to successfully invest in China, Japan and the US. His diverse experience also includes strategy consulting, teaching, authoring two books, regular Bloomberg Television appearances, economic policy leadership, serving on public boards like DirecTV, non-profit fundraising, TED Talks and innovative philanthropic accomplishments.

In 2021, Mr. Doll received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Venture Capital from the U.S. National Venture Capital Association. He was named to the Forbes Midas List for four consecutive years and received the 2013 Special Achievement Award in VC from the International Business Forum. Dixon was elected to the Board of the National Venture Capital Association in 2005 serving on the Executive Committee and as Chairman in 2008/9. Under Dixon’s leadership, the NVCA developed a widely embraced set of recommendations (NVCA 4-Pillar Plan) to stimulate liquidity in the U.S. venture capital industry. This plan resulted in bipartisan Congressional support for new job creation legislation and simplification of the IPO process for young emerging companies. Known as the JOBS Act, President Obama signed it into law in 2012.

Dixon received his B.S. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University plus M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.

Strategic Advisory Board Members
Philip Friedman
Strategic Advisor

Mr. Friedman is a Senior Advisor and former Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a firm he joined in 2006. Prior to his current role in the Aerospace/Space/Defense Advisory business, he led business development for its Asset Management division and ran an Aerospace, Defense and Security long/short fund. He is active in venture capital, with a focus on global New Space and other high technology companies. He is currently, or has previously served, as a Board member, Advisory Director and Founder of several New Space Companies, both in the US and in Israel.

Mr. Friedman was previously a Senior Consultant at Accenture. He began his Wall Street career and spent more than a decade as a sell-side Aerospace and Defense Electronics analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Morgan Stanley (ultimately achieving #1 Institutional Investor status in both categories). He subsequently ran the 200-person North American Equity Research department at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Friedman then became a buy-side investor and was head of the New York Active Equity business at Morgan Stanley (where he was a member of the $400 billion Risk Management Committee of MSAM). He later became a Senior Portfolio Manager and CIO at John Levin and Company. Phil is also a retired Partner at Permanens Capital, an outsourced CIO and multi-family office asset management firm.

Mr. Friedman received a BA from Rutgers University in 1978 where he was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. He received his Masters of Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with highest honors. Phil passed his CPA exam in New York.

Strategic Advisory Board Members
Arden Armstrong
Strategic Advisor

Ms. Armstrong is a veteran equity investor with over 30 years of professional investment management experience. Arden has built successful portfolios for a wide range of clients in institutional separate account management, mutual funds, and hedge funds. As a private investor, Arden has also invested in a wide range of private companies.


Ms. Armstrong spent 16 years at Miller Anderson & Sherrerd and Morgan Stanley (which acquired Miller Anderson in 1996). There, as a US equity portfolio manager and Managing Director, she headed the Small and Mid-Cap Growth Investment team, which managed institutional separate accounts and mutual funds totaling over $6 billion.


Subsequent to leaving Morgan Stanley in early 2002, Ms. Armstrong co-founded Redstone Investment Management, LP, a long short equity hedge fund that raised over $800 million dollars in small and mid-cap growth assets. At Redstone, she had portfolio management responsibility for selecting long and short investments in the Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, and Telecom sectors. As Managing Partner, Arden acquired deep knowledge of the investment management business along with a broad range of business management experience.


Ms. Armstrong graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982 with a BA in Economics. She first joined American Management Systems, then Evans Economics as a research analyst. In 1986 she received her MBA from The Wharton School. Arden is a holder of the CFA designation.

Strategic Advisory Board Members
Andrea Fischer Newman
Strategic Advisor

Andrea Fischer Newman served as Senior Vice President – Government Affairs for Delta Air Lines from 2008 -2017, including responsibility for International, Regulatory, Federal, State, and Local government affairs. From 2001-2008, she was Senior Vice President – Government Affairs for Northwest Airlines and oversaw the regulatory approvals required for the Delta-Northwest merger in 2008. Ms. Newman joined Northwest in 1995, also serving as Vice President for State & Local Government Affairs and as Managing Director – Law and Government. Prior to her airline career, she was a Senior Counsel and Senior Partner at Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone from 1988 to 1994. She currently serves on the Boards of three private equity backed companies.

Ms. Newman's public service includes serving in President Ronald Reagan’s Administration as Special Counsel to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Logistics and Deputy Assistant to Vice President George H.W. Bush. She has been appointed to the Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity and the National Board for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. She is a member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel first appointed by President George W. Bush and reappointed by President Trump. Ms. Newman was an elected member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1995 thru 2018. She has been a Vice President of the Detroit Economic Club, a Director of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. She also served as a board member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL), and as a member of the Michigan Strategic Fund from 1987- 1990.

Strategic Advisory Board Members
Michael Huerta
Strategic Advisor

Michael Huerta served as Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from 2013 to 2018.  He joined the agency in 2010 as Deputy Administrator.  He currently provides strategic consulting services in the aerospace, aviation and transportation sectors. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, Inc.

During his FAA tenure, Michael redefined the FAA's regulatory relationship with the aviation industry to achieve greater levels of safety through increased collaboration and widespread sharing of data. He led the agency's efforts to modernize the nation's air traffic control system while preparing the way for the safe integration of commercial space operations and small unmanned aircraft systems.  He is also well known for eliminating the decades-old ban on the use of portable electronic devices aboard airplanes during takeoff and landing, making it possible to use many devices from gate to gate.

Prior to joining the FAA, Mr. Huerta served in executive positions at Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Port of San Francisco and the New York City Department of Ports, International Trade and Commerce.

Mr.Huerta holds a BA from the University of California, Riverside and an MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dixon Doll, Jr.
Dixon Doll, Jr.
Board Member

Mr. Doll is a renowned entrepreneur, private investor, and senior executive in the finance and technology industries.  Since 2003, he has served as Managing Director of Longstreet Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture seed fund and technology startup incubator.  He is also a limited partner in multiple funds operated by DCM, a multi-billion-dollar global stage-agnostic investment firm, and Ten Eleven Ventures, a $1B cybersecurity firm backed by KKR.

Mr. Doll has decades of experience in institutional fundraising, M&A, and taking companies public.  From 2020 until 2022, he was founder and Co-CEO of ROMAN DBDR, a publicly-traded $230M SPAC.  During his tenure, the company successfully launched Compo Secure, a leading FinTech company specializing in payment cards and digital assets storage.  Mr. Doll also founded and served as CEO of DBM Cloud Systems in 2016, a pioneer in data replication and management software.  Prior to DBM, he was COO and Director of Violin Memory, a memory storage company, and an angel investor in data security company FireEye, which went public in 2013.  Mr. Doll has served as a senior executive in sales and business development roles in numerous software technology companies, including Fusion-io, Recourse Technologies, and New Era of Networks.  He began his career in technology at Oracle in 1994, where he won numerous sales awards and helped expand the company’s US Business Alliances program.

Mr. Doll is a graduate of Georgetown University and received an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School.

Robert Briskman
Robert Briskman
Board Member

Mr. Briskman co-founded Sirius XM Radio as Satellite CD Radio Inc. in 1991. During his career with Sirius, he served as the company’s Technical Executive, Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Engineering, where he was responsible for the development, implementation and operation of Sirius’s broadcast distribution system. He also supervised the launch of three Sirius satellites and designed their operational orbital constellation. Previously, Mr. Briskman directed the implementation of satellite telecommunications systems at COMSAT and NASA for more than three decades.

Mr Briskman is currently the President of GuardianSat, which is implementing his patent which allows satellites to avoid collision with orbital debris. He also serves as the President of TEC, which provides technical assistance to aerospace companies. He is the recipient of multiple space industry awards and has been inducted into the Halls of Fame of the Space Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association, the International Astronautical Federation, the University of Maryland Innovation and the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).

Rob Kaimowitz
Rob Kaimowitz
Board Member

Mr. Kaimowitz has 25 years of experience being strategically involved at the intersection of Wall St. and the commercial aerospace industry. Rob's Wall Street career gained traction as the #1 ranked analyst in Commercial Space & Satellite Communications. He participated in research, strategic development and institutional capital raises for the world’s leading Commercial Satellite & Space companies including: DirecTV, DISH Network, EchoStar Communications, Eutelsat, Globalstar, Hughes Electronics/Hughes Networks, Globecomm Systems, ICO Global, Inmarsat, Loral Space, Orion Network Systems, SS/L, SES, Sirius & XM, SpaceHab, ViaSat - plus many others.

Dr. Jill Wittels
Dr. Jill Wittels
Board Member

Dr. Wittels is an experienced strategic thinker specializing in technology-driven businesses. She has served as a board director and consultant, and has experience in business plan execution and development, innovation, new business initiatives, acquisitions, partnership and license agreement negotiations and executive management. Jill has worked with early-stage startups as well as established companies seeking transformative growth. Over the course of her career, Jill has built a knowledge base across a myriad of areas including strategic growth initiatives, negotiations, business plan development, business strategy, technology trends, big data, cyber issues, M&A, finance, diversity/demographics, social media, sustainability and globalization.

For nearly 11 years through July 2011, Dr. Wittels was Corporate VP Business & Technology Strategy at L-3 Communications. Her portfolio included corporate and business unit strategy development, business case development for innovative strategic thrusts, and assessment of technologies and influence management. Prior to L-3, Jill held management positions including Business Unit President, Business Unit GM, Vice President of Night Vision Products, Vice President of Engineering and Director of Programs. Jill earned her SB and PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. George Hunter
Dr. George Hunter
Chairman of the Board & Chief Scientist

Dr. Hunter has over 30 years of research, development and management experience in aerospace engineering, and is a nationally recognized expert in air traffic control engineering. George was Sr. Vice President at Seagull Technology, Inc. - a Silicon Valley startup engineering firm where he led both systems and software engineering groups. He has also been involved in several startup ventures, including both software and launch vehicle concepts. Prior to working at Seagull Technology, Dr. Hunter held defense positions at Lockheed and TRW in satellite engineering. His engineering expertise includes: aircraft flight mechanics and trajectory analysis, air traffic control, aviation meteorology, optimal estimation, software development, economic benefits, satellite structural dynamics, orbital mechanics and launch vehicle performance.

Dr. Hunter has published over 60 conference and journal papers. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Illinois.