Billy Thalheimer

Co-Founder and CEO, Regent Craft Inc.

Billy is the CEO and Co-Founder of REGENT.  He leads a successful team who have accumulated a commercial backlog of Seaglider vessel orders worth more than $10 billion, secured a $15 million U.S. Marine Corps contract, and raised over $100 million from world-class investors. Prior to co-founding REGENT, Billy honed his skills in human-crewed electric aircraft development at Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, where he was responsible for aircraft design, program management, and business development for Boeing's portfolio of future air mobility solutions. Billy holds a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, where he was a competitive sailor, and is a licensed aerobatic pilot.