We Protect Organizations from Malicious Drones

Aaditya Devarakonda

AD leads the global Dedrone team, advancing our vision of airspace security. He has advised and partnered with multiple CEOs, boards and management teams to build and scale highly successful companies globally.

Ingo Seebach

In 2013 when a toy drone crashed into a stage in front of Angela Merkel, Ingo Seebach was the first to have the idea of creating technology to protect from drone threats. Today, Ingo also serves as Managing Director of Dedrone GmbH in addition to driving Dedrone’s global strategy.

John Fernandez

brings core expertise in M&A, scaling organizations in advance of a public offering (e.g., while at Netflix, NetLogic Microsystems, Audience), and raising debt and equity capital.

Russ Haugan

drives Dedrone’s global operations, including production and support. His high-tech career spans from engineering execution to business management, including, most recently as CEO of Aerial Armor. He is passionate about airspace security being a cornerstone in public safety now and into the future.

Ben Wenger

leads Dedrone’s global sales team to provide best-in-class counter-drone technology to enterprise and government customers around the world. Ben has previously served as Vice President of Sales for emergency communication technology company Everbridge, where built the go-to-market strategy to include strategic global integrators and scaled the global sales team to meet significant revenue growth.

Mary-Lou Smulders

leads Dedrone's global marketing and communications team. During her twenty-year high-tech career, Mary-Lou served as CMO at several enterprise software entities including financial technology company 9th Gear and crisis communication systems leader AtHoc. Additionally, she served as Senior Vice President of Global Applications and Services Marketing for Oracle Corporation and started her career as a rig engineer.

Matt Altman

leads Dedrone’s overall product strategy and engineering execution, leveraging his almost 20 years of technology industry experience and counter-drone expertise. Prior to Dedrone, Matt served as CTO and co-founder of Aerial Armor, a counter-drone company, where he led software development and was instrumental in its success.

Dan Anixt

leads Dedrone’s legal team and is responsible for all transactions, regulatory compliance, and litigation and risk management. Over his 22 year career, he held executive level legal roles at several global companies (Verizon, China Telecom, and Mitel). He closed successfully over $1 billion in transactions and navigated numerous regulatory challenges and high stakes litigation over the course of his career.

Sara Devitt

Sara leads Dedrone's people operations. With over ten years of experience in organizational development consulting at Harvard Business Publishing, she transitioned to internal positions where she successfully led HR teams at notable companies like Healthfirst, Industrious, Hinge, and Emotive. Throughout her career, Sara has gained expertise across various industries and tackled crucial business challenges through inventive people and talent strategies.