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Mr. Hoff has been managing small technology businesses for 17 of his 25 years in aerospace. His customers have included large aerospace primes, US Department of Defense services, DARPA, and now many international Ministries of Defence. A common thread in all of these efforts for Mr. Hoff has been leading teams, companies, or teams of companies to success on difficult technical development programs. Products have ranged from aircraft to launch vehicles, spacecraft, weapons systems, and most recently Unmanned Aerial Vehicles / Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAVs / UAS). His breadth of knowledge and experience in aerospace products, markets, and operations has made him an effective business capture agent and program execution leader.

Prior to his small business ventures, Mr. Hoff served for several years as an aeronautical engineer for Beech Aircraft and Learjet. He supported the development of several new aircraft now in service today, in the disciplines of basic aerodynamics, stability and control, laboratory and flight test engineering, advanced structural composites, mass properties, and computer programming. In the years that followed, he transitioned from technical management to program management, executive management, and ultimately business development.

Mr. Hoff now directs AeroVironment's International Business Development for UAS, a product family with sales governed by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and for some products also the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). He is focusing a worldwide team of associates, local sales reps, consultants, strategic partners, and divisions abroad to expand AeroVironment's dominant domestic UAS market position into a global one with US allies. As a result, over a dozen countries have already purchased his company's UAV systems for military missions ranging from expeditionary force projection to national defense.

Most recently, Mr. Hoff was a quoted subject matter expert in the book Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (2009) by P. W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director of the "21st Century Defense Initiative" at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.

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