Bob R. Fowler, Chief Executive Officer of Aerovehicles Inc. (AVI)

Bob Fowler has 44 years of experience in aviation starting with the US Air Force in 1978. Bob was the Class President and Honor Graduate of the USAF Command and Leadership Academy. In 20 years of active and reserve duty he was decorated 18 times including the National Defense Service Medal and the Reserve Forces Meritorious Service Medal two times each.

As a civilian pilot Bob holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate for both lighter-than-air and fixed-winged aircraft. During his civilian aviation career, he advanced to Chief Pilot for both lighter-than-air and fixed wing companies then to Executive Vice President of Pacific Skyway/Casino Airlines until 2002 when he co-founded AeroVehicles Inc. Bob was appointed CEO of Aerovehicles Inc. in 2009. Since then, he has successfully expanded the company and its products. AVI is now the parent company of Aerovehicles Argentina (Sucursal Extranjera), AVI Airship Australia (Aerostats and Airships), Aerovehicles Canada (ISR Systems), Aerovehicles Paraguay S.A. (Aircraft Production) and has representation in England, France, Italy, and Senegal.

In 2019 the World Air League selected Bob as their Director of Safety, Training and Logistics for the World Sky Race. He currently resides in San Luis, Argentina where he manages AVI’s offices and projects.

Current Aerovehicles Inc. projects include:

Electric engine conversions for AVI’s MALE drones and airships. Project partner Parque Tecnológico Itaipu (PTI) Paraguay.

Securing FAA and/or DiNAC approval to build a full scale prototype of AVI’s AV-10 heavy lift airship.

Aerial mapping of the Amazon region of Paraguay for environmental studies and monitoring.

Assist in developing a transport system for Green Hydrogen with PTI Development of hydrogen engines for fixed wing aircraft and airships

bob.fowler@worldskyrace.com

Terry Garcia served as Executive Vice President and Chief Science and Exploration Officer for the National Geographic Society for 17 years. He was responsible for the Society’s core mission programs, including programs that supported and managed more than 400 scientific field research, conservation and exploration projects annually.

In June 2010 Garcia was appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. The Commission investigated the root causes of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2011, he received Peru’s highest civilian award, “Orden del Sol del Peru,” for his role in helping repatriate a collection of ancient artifacts taken from Machu Picchu in 1912.

Prior to joining National Geographic in 2000, Garcia was Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, U.S. Department of Commerce, and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where he oversaw U.S. coastal, ocean, and atmospheric programs, including recovery of endangered species, habitat conservation planning, Clean Water Act implementation, the development of the national marine sanctuary system and commercial satellite licensing. From 1994 to 1996, he was NOAA’s general counsel. Among other responsibilities, he led the implementation of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Plan for Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.

Before entering government service, Garcia was a partner in the national law firms of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Hughes Hubbard & Reed.

He is a research affiliate for the MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Initiative. In 2011, he was named by the First Minister of Scotland to be Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Government of Scotland’s Saltire Challenge Prize for marine renewable energy. He is a member of the boards of directors of Mystic Aquarium, the Amazonian Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) and George Washington University’s Planet Forward program. He served on NOAA’s Sanctuary System Business Advisory Council and the advisory board of the Harte Research Institute of Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University. Garcia also has served on the U.S. National Committee for the Census of Marine Life, the board of trustees of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation as well as panels convened by NOAA, the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Public Administration.

Terry Garcia is currently president of Exploration Ventures, a company providing advice and counsel to global clients in a range of industries, including science and technology, conservation, media, and education.

He is a member of the Explorers Club.

tgarcia@worldskyrace.com

Toby Page has more than 20 years of experience in the Lighter-than-air industry, predominantly in the areas of airship sales, marketing, broadcast integration and campaign management. A British citizen by birth, he joined The Lightship Group (TLG) in 1998 as an Account Manager touring Europe with one of Goodyear’s famous blimps. TLG, owned by the Virgin Group, was formed as a joint venture by Richard Branson and the American airship manufacturer, American Blimp Corp., and grew to become the world’s largest and most successful blimp advertising company. In 1999 Toby moved to the United States to head up TLG’s North American sales, and then in 2003 became Global Marketing Director.

Toby has experience selling and managing blimp campaigns across the globe, including the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, China, Japan, and extensively throughout Europe. During his time with TLG Toby has been directly responsible for sales worth in excess of $150 million, and has worked closely with many Fortune 500 companies to design and manage some of the world’s most successful blimp campaigns, such as Goodyear, Anheuser-Busch, Monster.com, Sanyo, MetLife, Saturn (General Motors), Holden (General Motors Australia), NBC Universal, and AT&T/Directv.

Key components of any successful blimp advertising campaign include, PR, event activation, social media and broadcast integration. Toby has extensive knowledge of all these areas and how they form part of a 360° blimp marketing campaign to generate a positive return on investment. Part of that has involved working closely with many of the world’s premiertelevision networks to integrate his client’s blimp campaigns directly with some of the biggest sporting and cultural events on the planet by providing stunning live aerial footage of events in return for integrated branding exposure. Networks include NBC, CBS, FOX, ESPN, TNT, TBS, SKY SPORTS, BBC. Events include NFL, MLB, NASCAR, NCAA Football, PGA golf, European PGA golf, Premier League Soccer, MLS, horse racing, tennis, NBA, NHL, cricket, and the Olympics.

Most recently Toby has been responsible for State Farm Insurance’s fixed wing aerial filming integration within NCAA college football, NFL and World Series broadcasts, partnering with FOX, CBS and Turner Sports. In addition, in March of 2022, he was instrumental in launching a major airship campaign in Japan for Asahi Beer.

1995 – Graduated University of Lancaster (UK) with a BSc in Marketing. Toby is a dual UK/US Citizen.

tpage@worldskyrace.com

Dean Arnett is an internationally, award winning documentary producer. Previously he worked for over 20 years as a staff producer / director on long form programming at the BBC. He is the founder and director of the production company Sparks Fly Media and the streaming company Definitive Streaming.

Dean filmed and produced documentaries all over the world, most notably for the BBC, Discovery Al Jazeera and others. His documentary series about the giant Airlander hybrid airship ran on Amazon Prime for over a year (now running on another international hosting site), whilst his airship mini series, The Return of the Airships is still running online and on TV channels around the world.

Dean has filmed at, and with, all the current major airship manufacturers around the world.

The key quality that identifies all of Dean's work is an almost perverse dedication to the art of story-telling. He lives, breathes and sleeps - story telling, the common theme through all his documentaries.

d.arnett@worldskyrace.com

Fiona Harte has combined a 25-year legal career with multinational business and international legal practices. She worked with DAC Beachcroft, Bevan Britten, and was a partner at Slater & Gordon. Fiona worked as In-House Counsel with Compass PLC, served as Group Legal and Commercial Director for Bramble Group and General Counsel Ikon Science Group, a geoscience company in the oil sector. Her specializations include technology, international procurement, infrastructure, and environment projects. She was one of the first-generation project finance lawyers to advise on Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships. Throughout her career, she has advised central government Public Health England (now Health Security Agency) at executive level and with the Ministry of Defence worked on strictly confidential projects. She has in-depth expertise in privacy and cybersecurity and led 17 lawyers for IBM’s implementation of EU's General Data Protection Regulations across their global supply chain. She has advised Lloyds Banking Group and was head of legal at Equifax.

She started her career in Formula 1 and F1 BioTech, as assistant to John Byfield who achieved acclaim in supporting Jenson Button to F1 world championship. Fiona runs her own elite entertainment, robotic/technology and Space private practice. She advised on the production of the first holographic west end show in 2014, AI and robotic collaborations with Google Deepmind, and LA productions, including Project Runway. She works with music and theater tours with A-list artists and motorsport champions.

Fiona has a keen interest in global health and health equity, currently taking an MSc at Queen Mary University London.

Fiona is an amateur pilot, a member of the European Space Policy Institute with an active interest in policy making and the issue of space debris and the space environment.

Fiona is a composer, producer, and musician.

She speaks fluent French, and has a working ability other languages., including Arabic, Spanish, Norwegian and Italian.

She received her law degree from Nottingham Trent University. .

fiona.harte@worldskyrace.com

Federico Wesselhoefft is an international attorney with extensive experience advising investors and boutique law firms on legal and strategic aspects of resource integration and financing. This includes corporate finance, venture capital, partnering, joint ventures, non-recourse project finance, structured trade and export finance, and international arbitration & enforcement.

He is Chief Legal Officer and Director of Aerovehicles Inc., an advanced aircraft designer and manufacturer with operations in the United States, Argentina, and Paraguay.

Additionally, Federico Wesselhoefft has received a Doctor in Law and Economics from the University of Hamburg in Germany and The Erasmus University of Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

Based in Hamburg, Germany, he is accepted to practice Law in Spain, Germany and Argentina.

f.wesselhoefft@worldskyrace.com