About us
Learn more about Anuma.
OUR VISION
Anumá Aerospace is eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from long-haul, heavy-lift transportation, one of the most difficult decarbonization sectors.
OUR MISSION
On the R&D runway to build the world’s first partial-vacuum-lift (PVL) cargo aircraft, we are addressing a number of markets, including weather, intelligence/surveillance/
CULTURE
Everyone at Anumá Aerospace is invested in the company, and is encouraged to work with these qualities in mind:
- EXECUTE – Do your job
- IMPROVE – Make us/yourself better
- INNOVATE – Bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and creativity to work
- COLLABORATE – Prioritize team over individual tasks. Offer help, ask for help, communicate.
- IMPACT – Advance the mission, follow the vision
- CONNECT – Have fun!
We are deeply committed to providing a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive environment where our employees will be excited to work on solving our world’s biggest problems. No matter where we operate our factories in the world, we will offer a better-than-living wage for all our employees, along with generous benefits and ownership.
CULTURE
Everyone at Anumá Aerospace is invested in the company, and is encouraged to work with these qualities in mind:
- EXECUTE – Do your job
- IMPROVE – Make us/yourself better
- INNOVATE – Bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and creativity to work
- COLLABORATE – Prioritize team over individual tasks. Offer help, ask for help, communicate.
- IMPACT – Advance the mission, follow the vision
- CONNECT – Have fun!
We are deeply committed to providing a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive environment where our employees will be excited to work on solving our world’s biggest problems. No matter where we operate our factories in the world, we will offer a better-than-living wage for all our employees, along with generous benefits and ownership.
OUR TEAM
Jamie Little
CEO
Jamie is an engineer and inventor. She's held key positions at numerous startups participating in the product development of mobile development platforms, software solutions, medical devices, and industrial equipment, most recently with SeaChange Technologies. Jamie is deeply committed to sustainability and environmental responsibility, with a degree in Environmental Science and Anthropology, a certificate in Solar Photovoltaic System Design, and a PMP certification. Jamie also has a lifelong passion for engines, aviation, and space technologies.
Diana Little
PRESIDENT
Diana is a computer scientist with over thirty years of experience walking into new business domains, rapidly assessing needs and requirements, then designing and delivering elegant solutions to complex problems. She’s a systems thinker with the ability to see and communicate the holistic big picture and architect systems that successfully address both near and long-term needs. She’s worked with myriad industries, including enterprise applications, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, logistics and supply chain.
Dave Craft
CHIEF OF STAFF
Dave has more than 20 years of experience leading teams at some of the world’s largest technology companies. His previous roles include cofounder and CEO of his own successful startup and Director of R&D at IBM. Over his career Dave has been part of and managed several corporate acquisitions and technology transfers. He also served as a Senior Technology Executive at Wells Fargo.
Søren Ekelund
ADVISOR
Soren Ekelund is a production and management engineer, serial entrepreneur, sustainability advocate, TEDx speaker, and has an incredible depth of knowledge in automotive engineering, especially involving electric vehicle range optimization and autonomous systems. Søren is a practical polymath with degrees from several universities, among them Production & Management Engineer. He is a serial entrepreneur with a dozen companies in the past, ranging from corporate optimization software to medical hardware, today focusing on tools for sustainability. Søren is probably most known for spearheading the electric and autonomous vehicle sector by providing range optimization and world context software for a number of OEMs including Mitsubishi, Mercedes and Tesla, and sending the Moto Mundo World Electric Tour 34,000 km around the world in all climates and terrains as a demonstrator of software and resilient system design. Søren has also crowdfunded several projects, including asteroid defence, and will help Anumá down this road if found beneficent. Much more about Søren can be found on www.SoerenEkelund.dk
Chris Spagnoletti
ADVISOR
Chris is a technically savvy executive with more than 25 years of experience in developing complex aerospace systems. He has a track record of increasing IP & shareholder value by translating innovation into reproducible business assets. His previous roles include CEO and VP of Engineering and Sales. He was President of U.S. Cargo Systems, where the business focused on the design, development and manufacturing of cargo handling and aerial delivery systems for commercial and military aircraft.
Nannette Stangle-Castor, PhD
ADVISOR
Dr. Nannette Stangle-Castor is a 20-year successful entrepreneur that has guided the commercialization of hundreds of technologies from government (NASA, US Army) and university labs. She has served as Board Advisor and mentor to numerous organizations spanning academia, startups, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits. Highly valued for her strategic advice, Nannette brings deep expertise in the understanding of complex technologies to drive market acceptance and success for her clients and partners. As the founder of IVT, a woman-owned small business, she has won and led multiple government contracts and is currently a Power Connector supporting the Department of Energy’s American-Made Challenges – a program that fast tracks innovations. Nannette brings expertise across a broad range of key areas, including intellectual property management, licensing, and negotiation; go-to-market strategy; process optimization and efficiency; and translation of technologies for effective communications, which are all key components for successful business alignment, operations, and revenue generation. She earned a PhD in Molecular Pharmacology and Cancer Therapeutics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Roswell Park Division.
Patrick Laney
ADVISOR
Patrick started his career serving 11 years in the U.S. Navy as a pilot on the F/A-18C Hornet, achieving a tally of over 300 carrier landings, two Air Medals, and attendance at TOPGUN. Post-service, Patrick earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founded CDL Systems USA - a software business specializing in drone control software. Proving to be a significant success, CDL was acquired by the world’s largest defense company - Lockheed Martin. He currently serves as COO for Grubbrr - a fintech startup revolutionizing front-of-house ordering in the restaurant industry.
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Our patented PVL cell is just the beginning. By 2033, we’ll be a mainstay in
weather and drone aerostats, along with cargo airships worldwide.
