EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Ryan M. Hartman

President and CEO

Hartman is the president and chief executive officer of World View. Hartman joined World View as CEO in early 2019 and has since led World View to become a purpose-driven, global brand that continues to pioneer humanity’s exploration and understanding of the Earth from the stratosphere. Prior to World View, Hartman served as president and chief executive officer of Insitu (acquired by Boeing), a pioneer in the design, development and manufacturing of unmanned aircraft.

Carol Brault

Chief Financial Officer

Brault is a seasoned CFO with over 30 years of financial leadership experience across consumer brands and operationally complex businesses. After serving as CFO at Winc, Inc., where she helped lead the company through significant growth and a successful IPO, Carol launched her own consulting practice to support founder-led and investor-backed companies through key growth and transformation milestones.

Mike Crouse

Sr. Vice President, Business Development

Crouse is a seasoned business development executive and leads World View's business development team. His team is responsible for strategic partnerships, pipeline strategy, bids and proposals development, tech scouting and solutions engineering.

Aaron Farber, PhD

Vice President, Products and Programs

Dr. Farber boasts deep category expertise and technical leadership in remote sensing and aerospace systems. He leads World View’s product and program strategy, overseeing the company’s multi-domain Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) remote sensing portfolio, manufacturing operations, and program management office (PMO). He also directs mission operations teams to ensure optimal system performance and the successful execution of customer mission sets. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona.

Julien Denat

Vice President, Program Support

Denat leads the supply chain team, including procurement, demand and inventory management. He is a supply chain and program management leader with 22 years of aerospace experience at both startups and Global 500 companies, including Airbus. He has led global cross-functional teams towards successful completion of extremely complex projects spanning through the complete product lifecycle, from conceptual phase to in-service operations. Denat holds a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Ecole Centrale Mediterranee.

Phil Wocken

Vice President, Brand and Business Operations

Wocken leads Brand and Business Operations at World View, operating at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and systems. He helps the company scale with clarity, cohesion, and purpose. His role spans brand, marketing, communications, culture, and business operations, with strategic oversight of IT and facilities integration, partnering closely with the CEO and executive team to drive operational alignment, lead cross-functional initiatives, and support the integration of acquired companies as we enter a new phase of growth.

Jessica Johnson

Vice President, Finance

Johnson leads World View's finance team, including internal and external financial reporting, stewardship of vital company assets, ownership of cash management and communicating value and risk issues to investors and the board of directors. She is a CPA, holds an MBA, and brings over 20 years of finance and accounting experience to the team.

Clayton Fernandez

Managing Director, World View Indo-Pacific

Fernandez leads World View Indo-Pacific's growth as the company expands its remote sensing services and capabilities across the globe. Fernandez spent the previous 20 years incubating and scaling nascent technology practices inside leading technology companies, from mobile security and cloud solutions to Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Edge and Quantum Computing practices.

Danny Donbavand

Vice President, People and Infrastructure

Donbavand leads the People function, overseeing the end-to-end employment cycle including IT and Infrastructure. Donbavand brings 20-plus years of people and operations experience working across global and national enterprises in Australia and the U.S. within multiple industries including aerospace, FMCG and higher education.

Sebastian Padilla

Engineering Fellow

Padilla is World View’s engineering fellow, supporting the entire organization in our collective understanding of current stratospheric ballooning technologies and trends, while also contributing thought leadership and supporting future technologies, design efforts and the broader community of stratospheric ballooning. As a founding World View employee, he led the StratEx team, a diverse core team of innovative engineers in the development, testing and operations of the entire StratEx system that engineered and orchestrated Alan Eustace’s record-breaking free-fall jump from the stratosphere.

Adrian Grenier

Chief Earth Advocate

Grenier is an environmentalist, actor and UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador. He collaborates with World View’s leadership team to ideate and develop strategies to ensure the company’s sustainability goals are met through global partnerships, guest programming and corporate initiatives.

A sharper vision
for a brighter future

a history of making history

August 2012

World View Enterprises, Inc. is incorporated

October 2014

Engineered Alan Eustace's record-setting StratEx flight for highest skydive and longest freefall (135,897 ft)

October 2015

Highest parafoil flight (105,603 ft), first precision-landing parachute system flown in the stratosphere, and fastest parafoil flight (290 mph)

August 2017

Largest controlled altitude change of lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle (25,674 ft of change)

September 2017

First off-the-shelf high-resolution imaging from the stratosphere

October 2017

World View completes its first five-day stratospheric mission and completes the highest trajectory-controlled stratospheric flight (94,029 ft)

October 2019

World View's first 30-plus-day flight

November 2019

World View's first 45-plus-day flight

July 2021

Highest altitude opening of a T10 parachute (106,000 ft)

August 2022

Achieved 40 km station-keeping radius for 10 consecutive days

March 2024

Highest deployment of a parachute cluster (78,000 ft)

APRIL 2026

Acquired by Ondas, Inc., establishing a persistent, AI-enabled multi-domain ISR platform across stratosphere, air, and ground

Demonstrated stratospheric expertise

140+ STRATOSPHERIC Flight OPERATIONS

More than 140 completed stratospheric flight operations, including flights with 4,700 kg and 10,000 kg payloads.

Vetted and Trusted Operator

Select current and past customers include NASA, NOAA, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Sierra Nevada Corp. and many others.

Protected and Proven IP

Patent-protected technologies and processes capable of delivering value to large and growing addressable markets.

MEET THE WORLD VIEW TEAM

A world-class team of visionaries with deep experience and expertise pioneering stratospheric exploration and flight.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

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A sharper vision for a brighter future

a history of making history

August 2012

World View Enterprises, Inc. is incorporated

October 2014

Engineered Alan Eustace's record-setting StratEx flight for highest skydive and longest freefall (135,897 ft)

October 2015

Highest parafoil flight (105,603 ft), first precision-landing parachute system flown in the stratosphere, and fastest parafoil flight (290 mph)

August 2017

Largest controlled altitude change of lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle (25,674 ft of change)

September 2017

First off-the-shelf high-resolution imaging from the stratosphere

October 2017

World View completes its first five-day stratospheric mission and completes the highest trajectory-controlled stratospheric flight (94,029 ft)

October 2019

World View's first 30-plus-day flight

November 2019

World View's first 45-plus-day flight

July 2021

Highest altitude opening of a T10 parachute (106,000 ft)

August 2022

Achieved 40 km station-keeping radius for 10 consecutive days

March 2024

Highest deployment of a parachute cluster (78,000 ft)

APRIL 2026

Acquired by Ondas, Inc., establishing a persistent, AI-enabled multi-domain ISR platform across stratosphere, air, and ground

Demonstrated stratospheric expertise

140+ STRATOSPHERIC Flight OPERATIONS

More than 140 completed stratospheric flight operations, including flights with 4,700 kg and 10,000 kg payloads.

Vetted and Trusted Operator

Select current and past customers include NASA, NOAA, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Sierra Nevada Corp. and many others.

Protected and Proven IP

Patent-protected technologies and processes capable of delivering value to large and growing addressable markets.

MEET THE WORLD VIEW TEAM

A world-class team of visionaries with deep experience and expertise pioneering stratospheric exploration and flight.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

REQUEST A MISSION BRIEFING

A sharper vision
for a brighter future