Armed with proven aerospace technology and an aggressive marketing strategy, MNDP is poised to rapidly expand operations and capture market share. The company is led by a seasoned management team with extensive experience in the aerospace market.
Josef Obermeier, President/CEO, 57
Mr. Obermeier has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director since August 16, 2007, after having served as Technical Advisor for RAI since 2001. Mr. Obermeier has had a successful career in the electronics industry. He graduated in Munich, Germany at the GBS, Technical School and has a degree Electrical Engineering. He worked in Germany as a project manager for a company building TV studios. He immigrated in 1979 to the US and until 1988, worked as an IT manager and purchasing manager at California based Soltec Inc., an electronic test equipment company, and from 1988 until 1993 as General Manager for Sim-Trade Co., a computer peripheral company. In 1993 he founded what is now a successful computer consulting company. Mr. Obermeier brings to RAI a wealth of knowledge and diverse expertise in the industry.
Frederick B. Hatfield III, CPA, CFO, 39
Mr. Hatfield has served as the company’s Chief Financial Officer since February 2009. He has established over ten years of leadership experience in accounting providing multimillion-dollar public companies with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance measures, internal auditing, and financial statement compliance. His enhancements in organizational performance with the introduction of accounting policies, systems and training strategies have resulted in increased profits and expense reduction. From 1995 until he joined MNDP, he worked with various non-profits and manufacturing companies. Mr. Hatfield graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a BS Degree with a double major of Finance and Accounting in 1992. He received his certification and obtained a Certified Public Accountant's License in the State of California in 2002.
Keith Michael Field, Chairman, 57
Mr. Field has been Chairman of the Board since June of 2006 and Sr. Vice President of Marketing for RAI. He has been involved in the VTOL aerospace technologies project since 1997 as project development coordinator and has codeveloped the current UVTOL military and civilian applications including the concept of Pedestrian Proximity.
As RAI coordinator for the U.S. Navy Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) from 2000-2004, Mr. Field worked with Tom Hanson RAI VTOL design engineer, Mike Sullivan, RAI’s NAVY CRADA & DARPA coordinator, and Dave Kalmbaugh, Chief Navy Patent officer at Point Mugu, California. Mr. Field helped build the prototype 3 UAV and witnessed several RAI prototype pre-flight and tethered flights, built a two-foot scale static model for wind tunnel tests, and worked with Navy patent attorneys and engineers to secure RAI’s first patent for a VTOL flying car configuration.
In high tech marketing and sales for over 25 years as a manager for ITT 1993-96 and consultant for AT&T 1991-93. Mr. Field majored in Architectural Engineering and received honors from Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Field attended Drake University, Iowa where he majored in Business/Psychology. Mr. Field attended Loyola University’s pre-medical school Chicago and majored in Bio/Psychology, studied computer science at Roosevelt University, Chicago.
Michael Boehm, Chief Design Engineer
Mr. Boehm joined RAI in March 2001 as Chief Computer Assisted Design (CAD) engineer overseeing all CAD-related work. Mr. Boehm served as a law enforcement officer for 11 years for the Ventura County Sheriff's Department in California. In 1999, he worked for Sam Hill and Sons in Ventura operating heavy equipment. Mr. Boehm attended a 34-week CAD program at the Technology Center in Ventura, California and mastered the art of using CAD designing software. He also completed the Solid Works and Pro-Engineer courses.
Along with Autodesk Inventor’s 3D modeling system, Mr. Boehm is helping the company to design and build vehicles, by giving them a true digital prototype. Digital Prototyping capabilities give MNDP the ability to virtually explore a product that is completed before it is built. This allows RAI to create, validate, optimize, and manage designs from the conceptual design phase through the manufacturing process. Mr. Boehm is using a digital prototype that RAI can visualize and simulate real-world performance of the design with less reliance on costly physical prototypes.
Using the same CAD technology as Boeing and Lockheed to engineer and build the most advanced Aircraft in the world, RAI’s engineers have designed and "built" the entire VTOL vehicles digitally within the computer. Every nut and bolt, every thread and tolerance is represented for hundreds of parts which are coded and sent electronically to CNC machines that transfer the data into real world machined parts from raw stock of high grade aircraft aluminum and titanium. Mr. Boehm designed RAI & DARPA’s proposed TERMINATOR drone.
Josef Joebstl, AirStar International CEO/COO
Mr. Joebstl is a pioneer in the remotely controlled helicopter industry. One of his accomplishments is the creation of a new market in turbine driven helicopters. Mr. Joebstl has over 20 years of experience in this field and is internationally known. Mr. Joebstl is the inventor of five other helicopters, as well as vehicles for the United States government and the movie industry. Mr. Joebstl came to this country from Austria with one helicopter, experience and his drive, and has built a successful company in ASI.