Dan
Dalton
Dan Dalton brings more than 20 years of experience across aviation commercialization, autonomous systems, and national security.
Background
Most recently, Dan spent six years at Wisk Aero as Vice President of Commercialization & Airline Development, where he led a 20-person international team responsible for 200% launch market growth across North America and Asia. He closed more than 40 strategic agreements and shaped Wisk's global go-to-market strategy spanning airline partnerships, infrastructure & local ecosystem development, policy, and regulatory affairs.
Before Wisk, Dan served as Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Airspace Systems, a venture-backed counter-drone technology company, where he led a business model transformation from hardware to SaaS that delivered 5x revenue improvement, captured $28M in airport security sales, and drafted legislative language adopted in the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act.
Earlier in his career, Dan spent nine years at the U.S. Department of Energy, ultimately directing the Office of Nuclear Threat Science — a $60M program addressing nuclear terrorism policy and technical challenges across four national laboratories. He began his career as a project engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and also served as a Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
