People Category: AIAA Aviation Forum 2019

Brian Hershberger is the Conceptual Design (CD), Senior Manager, for Lockheed MartinAeronautics’ Advanced Development Programs (ADP). Mr. Hershberger leads the SkunkWorks ® advanced design organization across Palmdale, Ft. Worth and Marietta sites. He isresponsible for overseeing operations, growing the CD competency, developing multi-disciplinary tools, shaping and capturing new business, managing portfolio investments andprograms, and enforcing technical integrity across the CD organization.

Mr. Hershberger has 24 years of experience extending from operations analysis-basedrequirements derivation, multi-disciplinary design and integration, through system flight test. Hisengineering breadth is complimented by leadership roles as the Competencies andTechnologies Deputy, program manager, chief engineer, proposal capture lead, andconfiguration lead on a wide variety of ADP efforts.

Within the Skunk Works ® , Mr. Hershberger has been a member of the development team onmultiple unmanned flight test and operational programs. These include JASSM (PDRR andEMD), X-44A UAV demonstrator, the Polecat high altitude UAS and multiple classifiedprograms. His responsibilities included aircraft conceptual design, multi-disciplinary integrationand prototype development. He has been awarded 3 patents resulting from his multipleconfiguration development efforts. He is an instructor for the Lockheed Martin Technical Institutefor Aircraft Configuration Development, Structural Design and Systems Design and developedand instructed an Advanced Lofting Skills Course.

A native, of Newton, Kansas, Mr. Hershberger is a 1995 graduate of Wichita State Universitywith a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and a 2001 graduate of CaliforniaPolytechnic – Pomona with a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering. Brian is an active pilotwho flies a 1972 CITABRIA 7KCAB, maintains his Certified Flight Instructor certificate, and hasInstrument, Commercial and Multi-Engine ratings. He and his wife Amy reside in the southernCalifornia mountain town of Wrightwood.

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Mark is the CEO of A³ by Airbus, a role to which he bringing decades of experience in designing and developing future aircraft. Most recently Mark held the role of Head of Flight Demonstrators in the CTO organization at Airbus. He led a team responsible for launching and operating flight demonstrators to develop technological solutions faster than in a normal R&T organization. He also served as CEO of Airbus Alpha ExO, the Exponential Organization used to facilitate this speed of execution. Previously Mark served as the Technical Director of the Beluga XL, where he designed and built the next generation of outsize transport aircraft for Airbus based on the A330. Mark is a 20 year veteran of Airbus, and is a graduate of Southampton University where he studied Aeronautics and Astronautics before joining British Aerospace Regional Aircraft in the Future Projects department.

In October 2017, Lesa B. Roe was named Chancellor of the University of North Texas System following a national search. Chancellor Roe is the chief executive officer and the first woman to lead the UNT System. She is responsible for all aspects of the System’s operations including general oversight of 10,000+ employees and the three UNT System campuses – UNT in Denton, UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth and UNT Dallas.

Chancellor Roe is committed to the continuous enhancement of academic programming by UNT System universities to best serve the DFW region and the State of Texas. Strategic growth, research, inclusiveness, operational efficiency, and employee engagement are her key priorities.

Prior to her arrival in North Texas, Chancellor Roe spent 33 years with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – a federal agency that received $19.6 billion in government funding in 2017 and oversees $31 billion in assets. As acting Deputy Administrator, she was responsible for general oversight of 17,000 NASA employees and 10 field centers across the nation. She also directed program and project teams on product/mission delivery, acquisition strategy, partnership and international strategy, and risk management.

During her tenure at NASA, Chancellor Roe served as the first woman Director of NASA Langley Research Center, Manager of the International Space Station (ISS) Research Program at the Johnson Space Center, and worked on 36 Space Shuttle and ISS missions in various leadership roles. Her leadership at NASA led to numerous science, space, and aeronautics breakthrough innovations and missions which advanced our nation’s leadership and international knowledge of aeronautics and space.

Chancellor Roe has served on numerous boards and advisory committees including the Virginia Governor’s Aerospace Advisory Council, American Astronautical Society, Virginia FIRST Robotics, and the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Dallas, Inc.

Her many honors include:

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA Fellow (2017)
• Senior Executive Service Presidential Distinguished Rank Award (2015)
• Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Bridge Builder Award (2012)
• YWCA Women of Distinction in Science and Technology (2010)
• Women in Aerospace Leadership Award (2010)
• Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award (2006)
• NASA Exceptional Service Medal
• University of Florida’s Distinguished Career Achievement Award
• University of Florida’s Outstanding Leadership in Engineering Award

Chancellor Roe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida. She is married to Ralph Roe, NASA’s chief engineer, and has two sons and a daughter.

Ryan Ehinger is the Program Manager for the Bell V-280 Valor Joint Multirole Technology Demonstrator, winner of the 2018 Aviation Week Defense Technology Laureate Award, 2019 Vertical Flight Society Grover E. Bell award, and Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New”. He joined Bell in 2004.

Prior to taking his current position, Ryan had been a member of the V-280 Valor team through their Proposal, PDR, CDR, and First Flight Milestones in both IPT Manager and Chief Engineer roles.

Before joining the V-280 team in 2013 he served as the Program and Technology Manager for the Army/Bell Future Advanced Rotorcraft Drive System (FARDS) program. He also served as industry lead for the National Rotorcraft Technology Center – Vertical Lift Consortium drive systems technology area.

As a member of the Vertical Flight Society, Ryan was Chairman of the 2012 and 2013 Propulsion Technical Committee and has authored/co-authored 16 technical papers. He was awarded the society’s François-Xavier Bagnoud award in 2008 for contributions to the rotorcraft industry by a member under the age of 35.

Ryan earned his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University.

Ryan holds nine patents and has several patents pending.

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Jeff Trang is Vice President of Technology and Flight Operations for Airbus Helicopters Inc. He manages AHI’s engineering, certification and aviation safety departments, as well as flight test, production and training operations in both Texas and Mississippi.

Jeff joined AHI in 2010 as Chief Test Pilot, where he led a significant expansion of the Flight Test department by coordinating the personnel, instrumentation, analysis tools and test processes with those of Airbus Helicopter in France and Germany.

A retired Lieutenant Colonel, Jeff served 21 years in the U.S. Army and flew the AH-1 Cobra and AH-64 Apache. In 1990, he deployed to Kuwait during Operation Desert Shield.

Upon retiring from the Army in 2004, Jeff worked as a senior rotorcraft test pilot for the Federal Aviation Administration, validating rotorcraft for U.S. certification and developing airworthiness standards for rotorcraft, as well as their associated policy and guidance materials.

Jeff is a graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He later graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and earned master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University and systems engineering from Southern Methodist University.

Trey Urbahn is Chief Commercial Officer for TAP Air Portugal and a member of its executive board. He is the chief architect of TAP’s turnaround strategy as a privatized company. Prior to TAP, Trey was Chief Revenue Officer for Azul, a Brazilian airline he helped found with David Neeleman. Azul serves over 100 cities within Brazil with 136 Embraer E Jet and ATR aircraft.

Azul was recently named one of the world’s 100 hottest brands by Advertising Age as well as best Latin American low cost carrier by Skytrax. Prior to Azul, Trey also worked with Neeleman at JetBlue Airways, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer.

Prior to joining JetBlue, Trey was CEO of FareChase, Inc., a travel industry e-commerce company, and was a founding officer of priceline.com, serving ultimately as Chairman, Travel Services. Mr. Urbahn was a Senior Partner at the Airline Planning Group, a strategy consulting practice focused in the airline and travel sector.

Trey’s earlier career was focused in the field of revenue management both in and outside of the airline industry. In addition to serving as Executive Director of Marketing Planning at Alamo Rent a Car, he was Director of Revenue Development at US Airways Group. Prior to this, Trey served in various revenue management and finance-focused positions at Northwest Airlines and United Airlines.

Trey Urbahn graduated from Yale College and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He and his wife Jennifer live in New Canaan, CT and have four children.

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Clement is CEO of Voom. After spending nearly a decade working in aeronautics in China, Singapore, France and the US, Clement knows what it takes to launch new ventures in local markets while simultaneously building models that are replicable at scale.

Clement has launched the Voom service in Brazil and in Mexico. Previously, he supported the implementation of a final assembly line for light helicopters in China. In addition to his 10 years of business experience in aerospace, Clement is a student private pilot on Cessna 172 and has completed a Product Management training in the San Francisco office of General Assembly.

Clement holds a Master’s Degree in business from Clermont-Ferrand Business School.

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Graham V. Candler is the Russell J. Penrose and McKnight Presidential Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 1988. His current research interests are in the areas of computational fluid dynamics of hypersonic flows, CFD method development, high-temperature nonequilibrium gas dynamics, re-entry and hypersonic aerodynamics, and stability and transition of hypersonic flows. In his research, he supervised the development of the data-parallel line-relaxation method and the widely used NASA DPLR CFD code; he was instrumental in the development of the STABL boundary layer stability analysis tool, and its three-dimensional version, STABL-3D. He is a co-developer of the unstructured grid extension of the DPLR code, US3D, which is becoming a leading method for hypersonic and re-entry flow simulations. He has used these simulation tools to study a wide range of supersonic and hypersonic flows, including supersonic parachutes, ablating re-entry vehicles, scramjet flow paths, and hypersonic transition processes with high-enthalpy effects. He has published over 400 articles in various journals, conferences, and books. His awards include the AIAA Dryden Lectureship in Research (2018); AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award (2012); Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Fellowship (2009); AIAA Thermophysics Award (2007); Fellow of AIAA (2007); AIAA Outstanding Paper in Aerodynamic Measurement and Ground Testing (2006); University of Minnesota George Taylor Distinguished Research Award (2002); AIAA Best Technical Paper in Thermophysics (1990, 2001).