Dave Merrill is founder and Executive Chairman of Elroy Air, where he has built a team of experts building autonomous VTOL aircraft to enable low-cost, low-risk aerial resupply for defense - and express shipping for every person on the planet. Elroy Air is developing Chaparral, an autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft platform that delivers middle-mile cargo rapidly and flexibly by air at a cost and environmental impact lower than today's aircraft. Elroy Air is partnered with FedEx, Lockheed Martin, and the US Department of Defense. Its advisors and board of directors include US Military Generals and the 27th Secretary of Defense.Dave is a technology executive and startup founder with a background in computer science, unmanned aerial vehicles, and sensor-based interactive and robotic systems. He is an alumnus of MIT and the Stanford Computer Science and Symbolic Systems departments. Elroy Air has been featured by Wired, Forbes, VentureBeat, The Verge, Aviation Week, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and eVTOL.