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Mark Bennett With 30-plus years of photography and design experience serving the aerospace and defense industries, Mark Bennett founded AeroMark Images to shoot and write for


both industry and media.


Jen Boyer Jen Boyer, owner of Flying Penguin Communications, is a professional journalist. She holds commercial, instrument, flight instructor, and instrument


instructor ratings in helicopters and a private rating in airplanes.


Cade Clark Cade Clark, VAI’s chief government affairs officer, has directed association advocacy programs for more than 20 years. Growing up, Cade worked at an


FBO, where he learned to fly.


Charles Morgan Evans Charles Morgan Evans is the author of Helicopter Heroine— Valérie André—Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire, published by


Stackpole Books, 2023. He is also the founding curator of the Hiller Aviation Museum in Northern California.


Jaasmin Foote Jaasmin Foote joined VAI as the association’s social media manager in March 2020. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English.


Chris Hill After an aviation career in the US Army and Coast Guard, Chris Hill oversaw aviation safety management systems throughout the USCG as aviation safety


manager. VAI’s senior director of safety, Chris holds an ATP rating.


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Mark Huber Award-winning aviation journalist Mark Huber has covered the vertical flight industry for more than two decades for a variety of national and international


publications. Follow him at @RotorWriter on X (formerly Twitter).


David Jack Kenny David Jack Kenny is a fixed-wing ATP with commercial privileges for helicopter. He also holds degrees in statistics. From 2008 through 2017, he worked for


AOPA’s Air Safety Institute, where he authored nearly 500 articles.


Christine Knauer For more than 25 years, Christine Knauer has written for major aircraft OEMs, MROs, and avionics manufacturers, as well as trade organizations and publications. She


holds a master’s degree in aviation safety.


Gina Kvitkovich Gina Kvitkovich, VAI’s senior director of communications, joined the association in 2011 after decades of honing her skills in writing, editing, and publishing.


As editor of ROTOR, she is responsible for every error in the magazine that you’re reading—and for some of the good stuff, too.


Zac Noble Zac Noble, VAI director of flight operations and maintenance, has more than 37 years of experience as a pilot and mechanic. He spent 11 years flying in the air medical


sector before coming to the association and is a veteran of the US Army, where he flew helicopters and multi-engine airplanes. Zac is a dual-rated ATP, a dual-rated CFII, and an A&P mechanic with IA privileges.


Andrew Parker Andrew Parker is VAI’s copy editor. A professional editor and writer for more than 20 years, his previous experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of Rotor


& Wing magazine, online editor of Vertical magazine, managing editor of Aviation Maintenance and Avionics magazines, and news editor of Professional Pilot magazine.


Katia Veraza Katia Veraza is VAI’s manager of government affairs and regional relations. Before joining VAI, she was a managing consultant for government affairs. She earned


her master’s degree in political science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.


Bailey Wood Bailey Wood is an association executive with over 25 years of experience in the transportation sector, specializing in


communications, public relations,


public affairs, federal advocacy, and nonprofit leadership. He served on Capitol Hill from 1998 to 2005 and was appointed to the US Department of Transportation, as a director of communications, under Secretary Elaine Chao, serving from 2019 to 2020.


Jayne Wood Jayne Wood joined VAI as assistant director of publications and media in November 2022, returning to the part of communications she loves—


writing, editing, and publishing—after more than a decade as communications director for a nonprofit association. Before that, she was a communications consultant serving both associations and corporations.


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