WARRIOR: THE COMPANY
Background
Through to 2001, Warrior was financed by the Handley Page Award of Britain's Royal Aeronautical Society, the Aerospace Division of the UK's Department of Trade and Industry and private venture capital.
In 2001 Warrior raised enough funds to commence construction of the first full-size aircraft. As opposed to a low-cost and superficial demonstrator programme, using experienced Certification engineers Warrior carried out all configuration and detail work under the instruction of Certification requirements. With difficulties funding the Centaur programme through commercialisation, in response to published defense capability challenges, Warrior commenced work on unmanned seaplanes.
Warrior (Aero-Marine) Ltd. has a series of both US and UK shareholders, in managers, engineers, and investors. Warrior (Aero-Marine) Inc. is owned and managed by Warrior (Aero-Marine) Ltd.
Awards to Warrior
UK ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY - HANDLEY PAGE AWARD
THE BESSO TROPHY - AEROFAIR 2001
MAINE TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE - TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AWARD 2001
DTI AND AEROSPACE DIRECTORATE - SMART EXCEPTIONAL AWARD 2001
Directors
James Labouchere, CEO: James is the founder and chief architect of Warrior’s original technology. He acted extensively as a consultant to Green Marine Ltd., a builder of a variety of extreme yachts including America’s Cup challengers and round-the-world sailing yachts. His consulting roles have included leading the development of production techniques for complex composite submarine masts. He has been designer and project manager of various extreme marine and land-based vehicles, for which he has been granted a number of awards. These include the Silk Cut Nautical Award for Technical Innovation for the design of a multi-hull yacht, and South West England Young Engineer for Britain (runner-up at the final) with a single-seat biplane modified from an unproven US design. He designed, and built in conjunction with Green Marine, the current holder of the British land yachting speed record (113mph).
David C. Verrill CPA, CFO: David has forty years experience in both public and private accounting, finance and business administration. As a Certified Public Accountant, he has over fifteen year’s public accounting experience with Price Waterhouse & Co. (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and his own regional firm in Portland, Maine. He has been Chief Financial Officer of a variety of organizations, primarily US and international manufacturing firms in the material handling, plastic injection moulding, telecommunications and data medium industries.
Anthony Parker, CTO: Tony has worked within the aerospace and defence industries in roles such as specialist engineer, project manager, design leader, bid manager and consulting engineer. He has gained broad experience from holding positions with major companies including GKN Westland Aerospace, Thales and Flight Refuelling. Areas of expertise are in management of the design process, configuration control and the development of specialist equipment. Tony will continue to take a lead role in the engineering and project activities on GULL and Centaur.
Anthony Wood, Non-Exec Director: Tony has 23 years experience in the IT industry specializing in retail banking and payment systems. He was a founding Director and Chairman of an international software house focusing on self-service payment systems and card management software for multinational banking institutions with a client base in over 80 countries. The Company was sold in the second quarter of 2000. Tony currently holds non-executive and management consultancy roles with an IT services Company and two aerospace engineering companies (including Centaur).
Joe Byrne, Non-Exec Director: Joe is the Chief Operations Officer of Green Cay Asset Management (a significant shareholder in Warrior), a Bahamas based global equity hedge fund with more than $200m under management, and, amongst other duties, is responsible for the funds investments in venture capital and private equity. He is a Director of several companies in the US and the Bahamas.
Jim Pullen, James Labouchere, David Verrill
Advisors to the board and key consultants
James Pullen: Jim has been a senior executive with an extensive career in Europe and North America specializing in strategic corporate development in the technology sector. He has extensive experience of operating companies with both a UK and US presence.
Robert Wilson: Bob has an extensive background in the aircraft industry with the UK-based manufacturer Britten Norman. He has held senior positions including Executive Director (acting CEO), and is currently Chairman and Head of Engineering of Britten Norman Aircraft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of B-N Group.
Keith Towell: Keith has made a major contribution to the development of the Centaur with his experience in Certification and design and development skills. Keith has had development roles in Canadair and British Aerospace. At Raytheon Corporate Jets, Keith was Project Design Manager responsible for the development and certification for the Hawker 800XP.
Michael Green – lead aerodynamicist: Mike has spent most of his career at British Aerospace working on civil and military transport aircraft. Having specialised in flight dynamics and aero-elasticity, he is familiar with the full range of aerodynamic activities. He was Chief Aerodynamicist at Woodford and Hatfield sites. Subsequently he has acted as technical consultant on a number of aircraft projects.
Chris Burleigh – lead stressman and structural designer: Chris is an aircraftsman with broad experience in the design, stress analysis, certification and construction of aircraft structures, power plant and mechanical systems. This has covered military fast-jets, space launch vehicles and general aviation aircraft. He has worked as an aircraft structures engineer and project engineer for Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites in Mojave, CA.