Ian Villa

Nashville, Tennessee, United States Contact Info
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Ian Villa is Whisper Aero’s COO and Chief Product Officer. The next generation…

Experience & Education

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Volunteer Experience

  • Alumni / Mentor

    Banatao Family Filipino American Education Fund

    - Present 9 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

    • Mentored college scholars of various years from Stanford, Georgia Tech, Williams University, UC Berkeley, Tufts University, and Brigham Young University
    • Advised scholars on interviewing skills and internship/research procurement

  • Coach & Mentor

    Vortex Robotics [FTC Team #14969]

    - 1 year

    Science and Technology

    • Mentored a Bay Area robotics team in strategy, leadership, robotics, and programming
    • Assisted with COVID-19 related outreach and fundraising efforts

  • FIRST Graphic

    Competition Judge

    FIRST

    - 1 year 9 months

    Science and Technology

    • Judged at Southern California Qualifying and Regional Championship competition levels in Southern California

  • WHS Robotics Graphic

    Alumni / Industry Mentor

    WHS Robotics

    - 2 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

    • Mentored five robotics teams in the FIRST FTC, FIRST FLL, VEX, and VEX IQ robotics leagues
    • Developed and taught a five course engineering lecture series
    • Guided teams through design reviews and best practices discussions
    • Provided organizational leadership based on past experience as the club's president, captain, and coach

Honors & Awards

  • 2024 Nashville Dealmakers of the Year Award

    Smart Business Dealmakers

  • #7 of the Aviation Business Influencer list

    Powerscourt

  • eVTOL Powerbook 2022

    eVTOL Insights

    https://evtolinsights.com/2022/01/evtol-insights-second-power-book-recognises-more-of-our-industrys-thought-leaders-influencers-and-innovators/

  • 30 Under 30: Manufacturing & Industry

    Forbes

  • Young Professional Award

    AIAA SF Chapter

  • Patent Bit Award

    Uber

    This award recognizes individuals who have contributed numerous patents to the Uber portfolio.

  • Three Sigma Innovation Award

    Uber

    This award recognizes an individual whose innovative achievements go a step beyond to enable big, bold bets.

  • Personal Recognition of Performance Award

    Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

    April 2016 - This award recognized my work in architecting and deploying a best practices and lessons learned repository for Flight Sciences under budget and on time.

    July 2016 - This award recognized my work on an emerging aircraft program.

    August 2016 - This award recognized my work as part of the 2016 Innovation Challenge Technical Development IPT.

    May/June 2017 - These awards recognized my work on an emerging technology program.

  • Banatao Family Filipino American Education Fund Academic Achievement Award

    Asian Pacific Fund

    This award recognizes the student with the highest academic GPA amongst the program scholars.

  • 1st Place Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design, Build, Fly Competition

    Stanford University AA241X

    This award recognized the team that successfully designed, built, and flew an unmanned aerial vehicle that located four unknown targets in Lake Lagunita most successfully given battery, propeller, and motor constraints.

  • The Rose Hills Foundation Science and Engineering Scholarship

    The Rose Hills Foundation

    The Rose Hills Foundation Undergraduate Science & Engineering Scholarships supports meritorious undergraduate students majoring in approved Life or Natural Sciences or Engineering majors.

  • AHPCRC Summer Project Honorable Mention

    Army High Performance Computing Research Center

    This honor was for my work on regression testing the AERO-S finite element code.

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