Beth Flippo, CEO of Drone Categorical, talks with host Randy Goers concerning the firm’s official launch into Winston-Salem and the way autonomous drone supply can present financial and ecological advantages to communities.Beth Flippo, CEO of Drone Categorical. Drone Categorical is an revolutionary aviation firm disrupting last-mile logistics by embracing autonomous flight. Based in 2021, the corporate makes use of drones to ship protected, dependable, autonomous, eco-friendly packages nationwide to clients. They’ve secured strategic nationwide company partnerships with The Kroger Firm, Papa John’s Worldwide, Winsupply, and different retailers. The FAA formally accepted its Half 135 utility. Upon completion, Drone Categorical will likely be one in every of only some firms licensed to carry out unmanned past visible line of sight deliveries in the USA. On September 13, Drone Categorical launched their drone supply service in Winston-Salem.
Beth is an achieved embedded engineer with over 20 years of expertise within the finance and expertise industries. She has designed and developed superior cell communications options and is captivated with robotics and unmanned methods. Earlier than launching Drone Categorical, Beth was Vice President of Embedded Software program Growth at TELEGRID Applied sciences.
She started her profession within the finance business in New York Metropolis, designing methods for quantitative buying and selling and monetary evaluation for fairness transactions on the New York Inventory Change. Her expertise contains a number of prestigious funding banks and brokerage corporations, together with UBS PaineWebber, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Goldman Sachs. Beth holds a Bachelor of Science in Laptop Science from the Thomas Watson College of Engineering and Utilized Science on the College of New York at Binghamton. She is a licensed drone pilot with the FAA and has a radio operator license, W2QNB, from the FCC.
On this episode of the Drone Radio Present, Beth talks about Drone Categorical, the corporate’s official launch into Winston-Salem and the way autonomous drone supply can present financial and ecological advantages to communities.
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