Paul Eremenko

Paul Eremenko is the co-founder and CEO of P-1 AI which aims to put an AI engineer on every engineering team at every industrial company. Paul also serves on the board of directors of Science Applications International Corporation (NASDAQ: SAIC) and Eve Air Mobility (NYSE: EVEX), an Embraer Company. Previously, Paul was co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen Co., a hydrogen aviation company which developed and flew, in 2023, the world's largest fuel-cell powered passenger aircraft. Prior to founding Universal Hydrogen, Paul was SVP & CTO at United Technologies Corp., where he led the 30,000-strong engineering function, as well as research, technology, and innovation activities across the company. He was responsible for the company's safety management system across the four aerospace and commercial businesses. He also led the technical due diligence for the UTC-Raytheon merger. Before UTC, Paul was CTO at Airbus, where he spearheaded flight demonstrators for hybrid-electric propulsion, single-pilot cockpit, autonomy, urban air mobility, and model-based digital tools for aircraft design, manufacturing, and services. He was also the founding CEO of Acubed, the company's Silicon Valley innovation center, and set up the Airbus China Innovation Center in Shenzhen. Paul also served on the investment committee of Airbus Ventures and as chairman of APWorks Gmbh, an aerospace additive manufacturing company. Prior to Airbus, he was Director of Engineering at Google, in the Advanced Technology & Projects (ATAP) organization, where he created and led Project Ara, an open modular smartphone platform. Before Google, Paul headed the Tactical Technology Office (TTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s principal engine for disruptive innovation. TTO is DARPA’s systems office responsible for all X-plane, spacecraft, ground vehicle, and robotics programs, totaling approximately $500 million annually. Paul also developed and led DARPA's advanced design and manufacturing program portfolio (called AVM—Adaptive Vehicle Make), and also served as program manager for several space efforts, including the 100 Year Starship. For his work at DARPA, Paul was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has undergraduate and Master's degrees in aeronautics from MIT and Caltech, respectively, and a law degree from Georgetown University. Paul is also a licensed pilot.