Chris Connor, the Chief Executive Officer of Polaris Aero, is responsible for expanding our company in ways that make us the best safety intelligence platform on the market. Chris served over twenty years in the active duty Air Force, Arizona Air National Guard, and the Air Force Reserves. During his career, he flew a variety of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, served at U.S. Embassies in South America and the Middle East, and worked as a Joint Air Operations Staff Officer at the United States Special Operations Command Headquarters in Tampa, Florida.

Chris earned a B.S. in Political Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and London Business School.

Chris is a frequent guest speaker and safety expert for both domestic and international aviation conferences. He holds a commercial pilot certificate with single-engine, multi-engine, and rotorcraft ratings. He also has type ratings in the B-707/B-720, SA-227, and the SK-65.

Trent is a former pilot for a major U.S. airline. Prior to that, he was on active duty in the U.S. Air Force for over a decade, serving as an instructor and standardization pilot. He also authored training curricula and developed software applications. The Air Force’s Air Training Command recognized his work with a “Best Practice” award.

After the Air Force, Trent served as a pilot in the Arizona Air National Guard where he designed an automated operational risk assessment program for aircrews, and developed custom software applications for a variety of functional areas.

Trent earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and a M.S. in Aeronautical Science from Embry Riddle University. He is Certified Flight Instrument Instructor (CFII) and holds an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate with B737, BE-40 and MU-30 type ratings.

Tim Medora is the Chief Technology Officer of Polaris Aero, responsible for the development and deployment of our solutions.  Prior to joining Polaris Aero, Tim had designed and built successful solutions for a wide range of vertical industries, including aviation, and has provided consulting services to dozens of prominent organizations as a strategic advisor and enterprise architect.  With experience working with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, his technical specialties include high traffic/performance/availability applications written for any device; relational data modeling; user interface design and heuristics; document and content management systems; and business intelligence solutions.

Prior to Polaris Aero, Tim co-founded Net Fusion Services in 2002 and served as the company’s senior vice president and chief software architect. Tim was also a part of the product group at InfoImage, a provider of portal software based in Phoenix, Arizona. He implemented an early adoption strategy for Microsoft .Net technologies and created one of the first commercially-available .Net portal platforms.

Steve Bruneau is the Vice President of Aviation Services at Polaris Aero, responsible for expanding the company’s suite of safety management solutions.  Prior to joining Polaris, he spent five years as the Chief Operating Officer of Pulsar Informatics delivering Fatigue Risk Management Systems to Aviation organizations of all FAR types, including their maintenance and ground handling departments.  Steve has over 25 years of process consulting experience helping organizations meet regulatory requirements or achieve new levels of performance. 

Steve has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, an MS in Aerospace Engineering, and has been a leader of three successful startup companies prior to joining Polaris.

Howard Herbert is the Vice President of Government and Military Services at Polaris Aero, responsible for the development of government and military contracting for the company’s suite of safety management solutions.

Prior to joining Polaris, he was a GS-14, Deputy Branch Chief at Headquarters United States Special Operations Command, responsible for developing and managing software solutions for joint Special Operations readiness related activities. Howard retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Air Force Reserves after 20 years and held dual ratings as a Navigator and Electronic Warfare Office.

Howard has a B.S. in Geo-Environmental Science and a Master’s of Military Operational Art and Science.