Doroni Aerospace
A Flying Car for All
Company Information
Doroni Aerospace is developing a safe, affordable personal aircraft.
This is a type of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft, or “eVTOL.” And it’s intended for the fast-growing Urban Air Mobility market. Morgan Stanley predicts this market will be worth one trillion dollars by 2040.
Once available, anyone will be able to own, fly, and store a Doroni Aerospace aircraft. All they’ll need is a driver’s license and training-course completion to get started.
Doroni has completed more than fifty successful test flights and partnered with key technology companies like Honeywell and Garmin.
The company has raised nearly four million dollars from investors and received 270 pre-order requests. Doroni aims to deliver its aircraft to its initial customers in 2025.
Team Background
David Grambill - Chief Aerospace Engineer
David has extensive aerospace-engineering experience. He began his career as a structural engineer with General Dynamics, a defense company. He then became an airframe design contractor with PDS Tech, a staffing company.
From there, David spent seventeen years with Boeing, working as a structural engineer and analyst. After that he was a design quality leader with Leonardo, a defense company, auditing design processes for Federal Aviation Administration certification and approval.
More recently, he was a chief engineer with XTI Aircraft, an aviation component manufacturing company. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Doron Merdinger - Founder & CEO
Doron first gained experience in the aerospace industry while serving in the Israeli Air Force.
From there, he joined Hazorfirm, a retail business selling luxury artifacts, first as its Marketing Director and later its CEO.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Finance from NYU.
Eyal Segal - Chief Financial Officer
Eyal has more than twenty years of financial experience.
Before joining Doroni earlier this year, he spent six years with Teledyne, a defense and space-manufacturing company, serving as its Director of Finance and Director of Financial Planning. Before that, he was a controller at Kenshoo, an advertising-services company.
Earlier in his career, Eyal was a senior associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers and held the same position with Ernst & Young. He also served six years in the Israeli Defense Forces as an officer in the Logistics unit.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.