AirMap Makes Daniel Rubio its New Chief Technology Officer

AirMap, an airspace management platform for drones, has announced that Daniel Rubio has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer.

Rubio is a seasoned technology leader and engineer. As CTO, he will apply his expertise in mapping, IoT, robotics, mobile devices and autonomous cars to AirMap’s airspace management platform. As a member of AirMap's executive leadership team, Rubio will help to drive AirMap's vision for innovation, he will shape the company and its product strategy, and lead the development of airspace solutions that advance the capabilities of its partners and enable a future in which millions of drones fly billions of flights.

“We are excited to welcome Daniel to our growing team of world-class executives,” said Ben Marcus, CEO, AirMap. “His technological vision and expertise in the unmanned vehicle space will be invaluable as he leads the engineering team at AirMap and helps accelerate widespread adoption of our partners' advanced drone capabilities.”

Rubio brings more than 20 years of multidisciplinary experience to the job, most recently as CTO of HERE, a high-definition mapping company for self-driving cars. At HERE, Rubio led the team behind the company’s cloud platform for autonomous vehicles. Before that, Rubio led the development of the Motorola Droid at Motorola/Google and brought Android to Nokia with his work on the Nokia X.

“I'm honored to join AirMap at such a pivotal time for unmanned aircraft,” Rubio said. “The world is primed for the proliferation of drones, and the work we're doing at AirMap is going to significantly accelerate the pace of innovation in the drone space. Moving from autonomous, terrestrial vehicles to unmanned aircraft was a natural transition for me.”

Prior to joining Nokia, Rubio was CTO at the Symbian Foundation, and lead design and development at NEC Technologies.