Creating A Sustainable Aerospace Industry - ATI Boeing Accelerator Panel

Exploring the sustainability issue with founders and champions in the aerospace industry.
Sustainability is essential to the growth of the global aerospace industry and a core part of our work at the ATI Boeing Accelerator. When we talk about this topic, we’re not only referring to meeting the UK ‘net zero’ carbon target by 2050, but also ensuring that sustainability is ingrained in the business from our operations to our hiring practices and beyond.
Join our panel to hear Kimberly Perkins, Melissa Orme, Rachael Everard, and Veera Johnson share their experiences and advice on a way forward for the industry.
Hosted by Gabriela Matic, Programme Director at the ATI Boeing Accelerator.
About the speakers
Kimberly Perkins
Captain Gulfstream 650, President & Founder of Aviation for Humanity
Kimberly Perkins is an international Captain flying a Gulfstream 650. She is the Founder of Aviation for Humanity, a non-profit using aviation to bring school supplies to children worldwide. After two years of living in Nigeria and a year in Malaysia, she turned her passion for philanthropy and aviation into a grassroots effort to connect travelers with students throughout the developing world. Aviation for Humanity has reach 1500 students on four continents and continues to thrive through the network of the aviation community and supportive volunteers.
Kimberly holds a bachelor’s degree in Aviation: Flight Operations and a master’s degree in Political Science. Through published articles and interviews on gender parity, Kimberly is an outspoken optimist in contributing to making the aviation industry more diverse, inclusive, and family friendly. Kimberly resides in Seattle, WA with her husband and two daughters (ages 8 and 4).
Melissa Orme
Vice President, Boeing Additive Manufacturing
Melissa Orme, Ph.D. belongs to that small group of engineers who have participated ‘hands-on’ in the field of Additive Manufacturing before the term or even the industry of “Additive Manufacturing” existed. Her career has been divided between academia and small business. On the academic front, she worked as a Professor at UCI for twelve years, where she rose to the rank of Full Professor. She was an early pioneer in the field of 3D printing of metallic parts resulting in 15 US patents relevant to 3D printing, which are concerned with novel AM methods with molten metal micro-droplets, novel methods of customizing the size distribution of metallic powders, and high speed direct circuit board printing.
Prior to her current position, she served as CTO of Morf3D for four years. Morf3D is a company that is focused on Additive Manufacturing of metallic components primarily for the Aerospace and Defense Industry. Currently serving as Vice President of Boeing Additive Manufacturing, Melissa will continue to grow and scale additive manufacturing capabilities and help to rapidly expand understanding of the unique features that 3D printing can bring to our factories and production lines while improving safety and quality. She will drive application scalability for existing products, and mature technology for future franchise platforms across Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Defense, Space and Security and Boeing Global Services.
Rachael Everard
Head of Sustainability at Rolls-Royce
Rachael was appointed Head of Sustainability for Rolls-Royce plc in March 2019, and is accountable for aligning sustainability strategy, policy and governance across the Group. She joined Rolls-Royce in 2012 and has held a number of roles across HSE and sustainability. Rachael holds a MA Hons in Sustainable Development from the University of St Andrews and is a member of the We Mean Business coalition corporate advisory board.
Veera Johnson
Co-founder and Director of Circulor
Veera is the Co-Founder and Director of Circulor, a technology business that is enabling businesses to track and manage the provenance of raw materials in supply chains. Veera has held a number of senior and executive positions in the worlds of finance, TMT and management consulting. She was the founder and CEO of Procserve, a specialist eCommerce solutions provider that was successfully sold to Basware in 2015. Won the prestigious Asian Businesswoman of the Year award in 2009 and has been profiled by the Financial Times and the Times as an IT role model.