Jon is an electronics and aerospace entrepreneur with over three decades of experience designing and building complex electronics and robotics in prototype and production quantities. He is an instrument rated seaplane pilot with over 1,000 hours of flight time in a variety of aircraft. His passion for sharing flight led him to establish Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX), a company with a vison of creating electric aircraft designed to be clean, quiet and connected.

Prior to starting his aviation career, Jon founded Nextronix, a contract electronics design and manufacturing company. Jon’s team at Nextronix developed and tested the first Intelligent Transportation System (C-ITS) Antenna in partnership with Motorola. This technology now represents core Intellectual Property for digital airborne traffic management system, employed by ASX.

In 2011, Jon founded Detroit Aircraft Corp, partnering with Lockheed Martin to manufacture and distribute small electric VTOL aircraft for military, civil and commercial use worldwide. Detroit Aircraft has represented several public safety agencies to integrate unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace system.

In 2017, Jon founded ASX to commercialize large scale eVTOL aircraft. After 6 iterations, ASX began flight testing the Sigma-6 aircraft, in summer 2022.