Wave Aerospace

Faster, Further, Stronger

About Us

A revolutionary new UAV design that enables today’s first responder UAV pilot to be on scene much faster, stay on station much longer, search much larger areas, and carry much more emergency payload than ever before in any weather.

Our Team

    • Steve Bofill

    Co-Founder

    Steven Bofill – Steve is currently co-founder of Vengolabs, a successful mini compact vending machine company located in NY. Vengolabs was on shark tank and has raised 7 million to date. Vengo has over 1300 machines across the US generating vending and media revenue. Before this Steve was an aerospace engineer at Sikorksy &
    a composite & propulsion Design Engineer. Skills: 3D modeling, Aerospace background, Concept to prototype to production, cost savings, sales. Tech Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing & Supplier MGMT.

    • Mark Strauss

    Co-Founder

    Mark Strauss – Set apart by extraordinary creativity, Mr. Strauss holds a degree in chemistry from Yale University and has extensive experience in marketing, e-commerce and analytics. Mr. Strauss is an accomplished leader able to navigate the most complex projects forward, quickly, without fail and with distinction.

    • John Garber

    Chief Commercial Officer

    John Garber is Commercial Officer for Wave. He holds a BA in computer science from Yale and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Founder and CEO of VIDA Diagnostics, SaaS-based imaging diagnostics for COPD, he raised $5 MM venture funding. John served as COO for e-commerce pioneer Click Commerce, generating $10 MM in revenues before its successful IPO. Before Click Commerce, John spent over ten years in global sales and business development for Motorola.

Our Advisor

Testimonials

“[delivery] drones would be much more sensitive to even mildly adverse weather. Such conditions would hinder speed and efficiency and make it difficult to scale”

Carlo Ratti | MIT

“Most of us have experienced commercial flights being canceled because of weather. A common thunderstorm can ground a light aircraft with a mass that’s three or four orders of magnitude larger than a drone. Air movement of just a few meters per second could be enough to send small drones bumping into buildings or falling from the sky.”

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Carlo Ratti | MIT

“You’re going to have the EMT that carries a first aid kit. The sawyer that carries the chainsaw and the pilot that carries the (drone),” Baxter said. “Instead of exposing a helicopter pilot to a recon flight or a captain of a crew to hike a ridge nobody’s ever been up, give them the tools to make their job just a little bit safer.”

Justin Baxter, Drone Pilot | Department of Interior

“Would you ever unnecessarily put your citizens or responders in harm’s way?” and after they respond with a resounding “no”, I follow-up with, “Aren’t you doing just that by not utilizing a drone and not knowing about the hazards that exist?”

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Justin Baxter, Drone Pilot | Department of Interior