UVS International Announces 2014 Board of Directors

The association’s General Assembly for 2013 took place at the Royal Military Academy, in Brussels, Belgium on 11 December 2013 and consensually elected UVS International’s Board of Directors (BoD) for 2014. The BoD is now structured as follows:

BoD Executive Committee

1)     Jean Caron – EADS – Cassidian (starting 1 Jan. ’14: Airbus Defence & Space), France/Germany/Spain/UK

Director – Treasurer (1^st year – 6^th mandate)

Large industry – RPAS system integrator

2)     Horst Schmidt-Bischoffshausen – STIC Consulting, Germany

Director – Secretary (1^st year – 2^nd mandate)

Small or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) – Consultancy

3)     Peter van Blyenburgh – Blyenburgh & Co, France

Director – President (1^st year – 9^th mandate)

SME – Consultancy

 

BoD Non-Executive Members

1)     RAdm (rtd) Christopher Ames – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, USA

Director (2^nd  year – 1^st mandate)

Large industry – RPAS designer & manufacturer

2)     André Clot – EuroUSC, United Kingdom

Director (1^st  year – 1^st mandate)

Qualified Entity

3)     Joost de Ruiter – HighEye, The Netherlands

Director (1^st  year – 1^st mandate)

Small or Medium-sized Industry (SMI) – RPAS designer & manufacturer

4)     Jean Fournier – Global Aerospace, France/Germany/Switzerland/UK/Canada/USA

Director (1^st  year – 1^st mandate)

Large industry – Aviation insurer & underwriter

5)     Alexander Koldaev – Design Bureau Watt-Conversion, Russian Fed.

Director (1^st  year – 1^st mandate)

Large industry – RPAS developer

6)     Peter La Franchi – LFRG Pty Ltd, Australia

Director (1^st year – 1^st mandate)

SME – Consultancy

7)     Simo Mäkipaja – Patria, Finland

Director (1^st year – 3^rd mandate)

Large industry – Defence electronics designer & manufacturer

8)     Gérard Mardiné – Sagem DS, France

Director (1^st year – 3^rd mandate)

Large industry – RPAS designer & manufacturer

9)     Alexander Medvedev – Irkut Corporation, Russian Fed.

Director (1^st  year – 1^st mandate)

Large industry – RPAS designer & manufacturer

10)  Nick Miller – Thales Aerospace, United Kingdom

Director (1^st year – 6^th mandate)

Large industry – RPAS system integrator

11)  Niklas Nyroth – CybAero, Sweden

Director (1^st year – 1^st mandate)

SMI – RPAS designer & manufacturer

12)  Itai Toren – Bluebird AeroSystems, Israel

Director (2^nd year – 1^st mandate)

SMI – RPAS designer & manufacturer

13)  Robert van Nieuwland – In2Nova, The Netherlands

Director – (1^st year – 2^nd mandate)

SME – Consultancy

 

European RPAS Coordination Council (Non-Executive BoD Members)

1)     Emmanuel de Maistre – Fédération Professionnelle du Drone Civil, France

(1^st year – 1^st mandate)

National association (RPAS manufacturers & operators)

2)     Ole Vidar Homleid – UAS Norway, Norway

(1^st year – 3^rd mandate)

National association (RPAS manufacturers & operators, research organisations, academia)

3)     Paolo Marras – ASSORPAS, Italy

(2^nd year – 1^st mandate)

National association (Light RPAS manufacturers & operators & research organisations)

4)     Manuel Onate – AERPAS, Spain

(1^st year – 1^st mandate)

National association (RPAS manufacturers & operators)

5)     Philip Tarry – Sub 20 Group, United Kingdom

(1^st year – 1^st mandate)

National association (Light RPAS operators)

6)     Jürgen Verstaen – BeUAS, Belgium

(2^nd year – 1^st mandate)

National association (RPAS manufacturers & operators & research organisations)

7)     Bernhard von Bothmer – UAS-DACH, Germany

(1^st year – 1^st mandate)

National association (RPAS manufacturers & operators)

 

The European RPAS Coordination Council is constituted of European national associations that are non-corporate Partner Organisation member of UVS International.

The purpose of the European RPAS Coordination Council is to federate the European RPAS Community (manufacturer & operator stakeholder groups) and thereby create a clearly identifiable & critical European RPAS community mass.

The decision to become a non-corporate Partner Organisation member of UVS International and join the European RPAS Coordination Council will be made by DARPAS, the national association in The Netherlands, at their General Assembly in February 2014.

The European RPAS Coordination Council is part of the International RPAS Coordination Council, which consists of European & non-European non-corporate Partner Organisation members of UVS International.

The 2014 Board of Directors unites members from 14 following countries: Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russian Fed., Spain, Sweden, UK, USA.

The 2014 BoD brings together the following types of organisations:

7 x Large Industry (manufacturers & suppliers of services)

9 x Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises & Industries (manufacturers & suppliers of services)

7 x National Associations (federating RPAS manufacturers and/or RPAS operators)

 

The 2014 BoD represents members with the following competencies:

1 x Aviation Insurance & underwriter

4 x Consultancy

1 x Defence Electronics

4 x RPAS Integration (do not necessarily produce RPA)

1 x Qualified Entity

3 x RPAS Manufacturing (design & production of RPAS)

1 x Sub-System Production

7 x National Associations