About me
Global CEO, COO, and Board Director with extensive operational experience. 5x founder w/ 3 exits.
Raised over $130M+ in capital.
Widely recognized and trusted by the Fortune 1000 as a leading Latino AI, drone, and robotics industry expert. Brandon currently serves as the CEO and a Board Director at Exyn Technologies, a leading autonomy and robotics company.
He also co-founded and serves as a Board Director at ReadyMonitor, the leading drone-in-a-box solutions provider in the United States.
Previously, he provided leadership as COO, CEO, and Board Director at AgEagle Aerial Systems (NYSE: UAVS), a leading full stack drone solutions provider.
While leading the company, he successfully raised over $100M+ in an at-the-market (ATM) offering with the support of investment banks Stifel Group and Raymond James. Subsequently, he completed the acquisitions of MicaSense and sensefly, creating the leading fixed-wing drone company, combining hardware, software, and sensors for customers across multiple industry verticals.
Prior to AgEagle, he founded MEASURE and as CEO, raised $30M+ in financing, built and grew this MEASURE to the top 5% of drone companies by revenue – subsequently selling the MEASURE drone services business to the Aerodyne Group in 2019, where he served as Chairman of Aerodyne MEASURE.
After his first successful exit, he invested and developed a SaaS platform, Ground Control (GC), which provides drone mission planning, data collection, processing, analysis, and intelligence reporting, he had his second successful exit selling that SaaS business to AgEagle for $45M+ in April 2021.
Brandon and his team at MEASURE earned a Technology and Engineering Emmy™ Award for technical work in drone cinematography and was recognized with the Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Excellence.
In public service, he was appointed Senior Advisor to Oxford University’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to the FAA’s Advanced Aviation Advisory Committee (AAAC).
He has also served as Counsel to U.S. House of Representatives; Homeland Security Committee; Counsel on Capitol Hill to Senator Feinstein, Congresswoman Harman, and Counsel to the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees.
A drone industry thought leader, he’s earned features on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Commercial UAV News among others. In 2018 and 2019, he was named a Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine.