Drone Express CEO Beth Flippo joins host Randy Gores to discuss the company’s official launch in Winston-Salem and how autonomous drone delivery can provide economic and ecological benefits to local communities.Beth Flippo, CEO of Drone Express. Drone Express is an innovative aviation company revolutionizing last-mile logistics by introducing autonomous flight. Founded in 2021, the company uses drones to deliver safe, reliable, autonomous, and eco-friendly packages to customers nationwide. They have secured strategic national enterprise partnerships with The Kroger Company, Papa John’s International, Winsupply, and other retailers. The FAA has officially accepted the Part 135 application. Once completed, Drone Express will be one of the few companies in the United States capable of performing unmanned, beyond-line-of-sight delivery. On September 13, Drone Express launched its drone delivery service in Winston-Salem.
Beth is an accomplished embedded engineer with over 20 years of experience in the financial and technology industries. She has designed and developed advanced mobile communications solutions and is passionate about robotics and unmanned systems. Prior to starting Drone Express, Beth was Vice President of Embedded Software Development at TELEGRID Technologies.
She began her career in finance in New York City, designing systems for quantitative trading and financial analysis for stock trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Her experience includes several prestigious investment banks and brokerage firms, including UBS PaineWebber, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Goldman Sachs. Beth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Thomas Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of New York at Binghamton. She is an FAA licensed drone pilot and holds a W2QNB, a wireless operator license from the FCC.
In this episode of The Drone Radio Show, Beth talks about Drone Express, a company that has officially launched in Winston-Salem, and how autonomous drone delivery can provide economic and ecological benefits to local communities.
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