Advisor Spotlight: Eoghan Huston & Urban-Air Port
Eoghan Huston, Non-Executive advisor at Urban-Air Port.
We’re pleased to highlight Eoghan Huston, COO of Manna Drone Delivery, who has been a Non-Executive advisor to Urban-Air Port (UAP) since 2023, providing financial and strategic guidance as we continue to scale our innovative landing and charging infrastructure solutions.
“Eoghan has been a valued advisor to UAP for the past two years.
His extensive experience in finance, technology, and scaling high-growth companies has been instrumental as we execute our ambitious plans for 2025/26.”
As COO at Manna Drone Delivery, Eoghan has a wealth of experience in finance and technology, scaling companies in both public and private markets.
His experience working with founders to grow their businesses spans multiple industries from financial markets to travel and retail, and since 2021 he has been helping to build the future of low altitude logistics with Manna Drone Delivery.
Eoghan and Andrea Wu at a Manna Drone Delivery operational facility in Dublin, Ireland.
“It’s been a pleasure getting to know Andrea, Ricky and the leadership team at Urban-Air Port over the past two years.
Their approach to infrastructure development in the AAM space is truly innovative, and as a shareholder in the business I look forward to continuing to cheer on their growth as they scale their solutions for the fast-growing UAV market with Docks Box.”
If you are interested in finding out more about Docks Box - get in touch by hitting the link above. With drone deliveries taking off all over the world - now is the time to get ahead and fill in the missing piece with our patented Docks Box technology.
About Urban-Air Port®
Urban-Air Port is an award-winning infrastructure provider that develops landing and charging infrastructure for new forms of sustainable urban air transport such as passenger and cargo VTOL air taxis and autonomous delivery drones for civilian and defence applications. Its mission is to enable the electrification of aviation by addressing the largest single constraint to sustainable air mobility – ground infrastructure – in order to create a zero-emission mobility ecosystem, significantly cutting congestion and air pollution from passenger and cargo transport.
Urban-Air Port is recognised as a world leader in the Advanced Air Mobility sector, with plans to deliver patented vertiport technology that provides ultra-compact, high-capacity infrastructure: this will revolutionise cities around the world, making them more connected and cleaner, thereby accelerating our green economic future. Urban-Air Port’s technology is proven to respond more effectively to the unique characteristics of electric & hybrid VTOL aircraft and therefore offer safer, quieter and more sustainable vertiport infrastructure than any other provider.
The Urban-Air Port technology-driven “Vertical Airfield” compacts a conventional airfield and allows for safe electric vertical take-off and landing at height, acting like an aircraft carrier. Urban-Air Port vertiports are 80% smaller than any other provider: they provide a modular design for flexible expansion, maximise eVTOL throughput and come with a modular energy storage system – all in all providing an enhanced passenger experience, and optimum performance and range for the eVTOL due to minimised energy consumption during ground operations.
Urban-Air Port’s Air-One project in Coventry, launched in April 2022 and supported by UK Government Research and Innovation funding, was the world’s first fully operational vertiport in such dense downtown location, with over 15,000 visitors and 150 successful flights orchestrated in the complex urban and air environment of downtown Coventry and within Coventry Airport’s Flight Restriction Zone.
The company is backed by major international partners, including Supernal (a part of Hyundai Motor Group) and Directors of M7 Real Estate (part of Oxford Properties). Urban-Air Port’s team of innovators, aeronautical engineers and aerospace experts have worked at companies including Airbus, Foster + Partners, Arup, BAA, Bank of Ireland, Knight Frank, McKinsey, Hyundai Motor Group, Vertical Aerospace, EASA, NATS, Uber, Qatar Airways, H55, Otto Aviation and the US Special Forces & British Army.
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