The team behind FAERO...
CEO - Colin Michael Foale, PhD, CBE
Mike Foale is a US citizen, PhD experimental physicist from Cambridge University, England. He was formerly employed at the NASA Johnson Space center, where he served as NASA astronaut from 1987 until 2013. After leaving NASA in 2013 to form Foale Aerospace he supported the Inspiration Mars Foundation focusing on operations and redundancy. He has supported Whittinghill Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, Virgin Galactic, Special Aerospace Services, Astrobotic and Bosch payload development with technical and software services. He has designed and deployed machine learning microprocessor embedded systems using C, C++, Python, and Verilog hardware description language for FPGA's. He is currently developing fault detection systems on embedded processors for aircraft.
Mike Foale is a US citizen, PhD experimental physicist from Cambridge University, England. He was formerly employed at the NASA Johnson Space center, where he served as NASA astronaut from 1987 until 2013. After leaving NASA in 2013 to form Foale Aerospace he supported the Inspiration Mars Foundation focusing on operations and redundancy. He has supported Whittinghill Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, Virgin Galactic, Special Aerospace Services, Astrobotic and Bosch payload development with technical and software services. He has designed and deployed machine learning microprocessor embedded systems using C, C++, Python, and Verilog hardware description language for FPGA's. He is currently developing fault detection systems on embedded processors for aircraft.
President & CFO - Jenna Foale, MPhil
Jenna Foale, daughter of Mike Foale, acquired her bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. During undergrad she did work involving aircraft CAD modeling, wind turbine performance research and R&D of a clothing sanitizing device for the ISS. Jenna joined FAERO in 2014, and has written numerous configuration reports and motor summaries for Virgin Galactic, as well a provisional patent and C++ code relating to one of FAERO's projects, while managing finances and business development. She completed a PhD at the Cambridge University Engineering Department studying combustion of turbulent flows and has begun a post-doctoral research project for Rolls Royce, continuing at Cambridge.
Jenna Foale, daughter of Mike Foale, acquired her bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. During undergrad she did work involving aircraft CAD modeling, wind turbine performance research and R&D of a clothing sanitizing device for the ISS. Jenna joined FAERO in 2014, and has written numerous configuration reports and motor summaries for Virgin Galactic, as well a provisional patent and C++ code relating to one of FAERO's projects, while managing finances and business development. She completed a PhD at the Cambridge University Engineering Department studying combustion of turbulent flows and has begun a post-doctoral research project for Rolls Royce, continuing at Cambridge.
Chief Technology Officer - Ian Foale, Computer Engineering
Ian Foale, son of Mike Foale, has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Houston Clear Lake with a focus on FPGA's. He joined FAERO in 2019, and worked on a machine learning project to identify when 3D printing begins to fail. In 2020 he worked on an analog lunar rover which uses machine learning to identify soil regolith characteristics during rover traverses. He has worked on the Solar Pilot Guard - System which won 3rd prize at the Experimental Aircraft Association Founder's Innovation Prize finals July 2021. He worked with Mike on the "Drone package delivery safety in turbulent atmospheric conditions in confined areas like cities entry" to the Intel innovateFPGA 2022 competition, which won the Gold medal of the Americas and 4th place in the World competition.
Ian Foale, son of Mike Foale, has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Houston Clear Lake with a focus on FPGA's. He joined FAERO in 2019, and worked on a machine learning project to identify when 3D printing begins to fail. In 2020 he worked on an analog lunar rover which uses machine learning to identify soil regolith characteristics during rover traverses. He has worked on the Solar Pilot Guard - System which won 3rd prize at the Experimental Aircraft Association Founder's Innovation Prize finals July 2021. He worked with Mike on the "Drone package delivery safety in turbulent atmospheric conditions in confined areas like cities entry" to the Intel innovateFPGA 2022 competition, which won the Gold medal of the Americas and 4th place in the World competition.