ABOUT
Boom was founded on the philosophy that we need to overcome the challenges of supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. Our vision is to make the world more local.
We've done hard things before.
- Led development and FAA certification of passenger aircraft
- Led engineering of SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage
- Owned flight test and dynamics through Mach 3
- Developed autopilot control law on Boeing 787
- Owned front half of F135 Joint Strike Fighter engine
- Together, our engineering team has made key contributions to 40+ new air and space vehicles.
Leadership
Blake Scholl
Founder & CEO
Certificated Pilot
Blake is a pilot and technology entrepreneur. He previously built marketing automation at Amazon ($300M P&L) and founded mobile technology startup Kima Labs (acquired by Groupon).
Joe Wilding
Co-Founder & Chief Engineer
Certificated Pilot
Joe has played leadership roles on multiple aircraft and certification programs, including Chief Engineer of the Adam A700 light jet. Joe has been an early employee at three aerospace startups and has led development of multiple passenger aircraft from clean sheet through FAA certification.
Programs: Beech Premier I Eclipse 500 ICON A5 Adam A700 Adam A500
Josh Krall
Co-Founder & CTO
Josh is a hands-on software engineer and entrepreneur with a background in physics simulation. At Boom, Josh has developed multi-disciplinary optimization algorithms and design automation software. Josh was cofounder & CTO at two startups, HelloCar and FeeFighters (acquired by Groupon).
Andy Berryann
Propulsion
Andy has held multiple leadership roles at Pratt & Whitney, where he contributed significantly to the F119 and Geared Turbofan programs and owned fans and compressors for the F135 engine powering the supersonic Joint Strike Fighter.
Programs: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter F-22 Raptor GTF Family GP7000 V2500
Michael Reid
Systems Engineering
Certificated Pilot
Boom is Michael's eighth aircraft and the other seven have flown—including the Boeing 787 (autopilot) and Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (flight dynamics).
Programs: Boeing 787 SpaceShipTwo Firebird Proteus Zee.Aero
Mike Jagemann
Manufacturing
Mike has contributed to mechanical design on the Adam A500, X-47A, and ICON A5. Most recently, he was responsible for production and assembly tooling for the ICON A5.
Programs: X-47A Adam A500 ICON A5
Bryce Knight
Aircraft Structures
Certificated Pilot
Bryce worked in flight testing on several aircraft while at Bombardier, led the flight test mechanical design team on the Adam A700, and has worked on numerous programs designing and manufacturing composite aircraft structures.
Programs: Adam A700
David Bogue
Aerodynamics Lead
David started at Boeing where he contributed to every commercial airplane developed from the 737NG to the 787 including the Sonic Cruiser, the 747MD and several derivative aircraft. His expertise includes preliminary design, CFD, wind tunnel, S&C, Performance and optimization. After Boeing, he consulted on the aerodynamic design of multiple business jets, including models from Cessna, Hawker-Beechcraft, and Embraer.
Programs: 737NG 747MD 787 Sonic Cruiser
Greg Krauland
Technical Program Manager
Certificated Pilot
Greg is an eight year veteran of SpaceX, most recently as Manager of the F9 Second Stage where he oversaw the fluid systems, structures, operations and build engineering teams. Prior to SpaceX, Greg worked at Scaled Composites on the SpaceShip2 and WhiteKnight2 projects.
Programs: Falcon 9 Falcon 9 v1.1 Falcon 9 FT SpaceShip2 WhiteKnight2
Advisory Board
Frank Cappuccio
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works (retired)
Tom Hartmann
Former Director, Quiet Supersonic Transport, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
Scott Bledsoe
Former Lead Engineer, Supersonic Program, Gulfstream. Founder/President, Blue Force Technologies
Bob Dana
First employee and Chief Financial Officer at Virgin America
Capt. Mark Kelly
Renowned astronaut, test pilot, and author
