Basil is a founding member and President of AeroX, a non-profit focused on building an AAM ecosystem in North Carolina. AeroX was recently awarded $5 million from the state legislature to build a UAS Traffic Management system in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is a founding member and General Partner in Aero X Ventures, a venture fund focused on AAM.
Basil serves as Vice President of Hovecon Consulting, which provides subject matter expertise and program development for emerging aviation technologies to industry and state/ local governments. He previously served as UAS Program Manager for NCDOT, where he helped build an award-winning program that enabled the first routine medical package delivery operations in the nation. He is also an appointee to NASA’s Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable, whose mission is to define and explore critical issues related to the nation’s aeronautics research agenda, including UAS, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) technology and Urban Air Mobility. Basil was also recently appointed to the Smith Reynold’s Airport Board.
Basil holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University and lives with his family in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
