Scott Pomeroy
CEO and Chairman of the Board
Scott Pomeroy is the Chief Executive Officer of XTI Aerospace. Mr. Pomeroy brings over 35 years of executive experience. He previously served as the CFO of Dex Media, overseeing equity and debt capital raises of more than $10 billion, and was CEO and founder of Local Insight Media. He also co-founded Gen3 Financial Services, a boutique merchant bank providing capital raising and business advisory services to clients in a variety of industries including aerospace. He has served on several Boards, including the Board of Directors of AVX Aircraft Company since 2009, a U.S. military defense contractor and a leading-edge aviation research and engineering company with particular expertise in Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft and unmanned aircraft development. He began his career at KPMG Peat Marwick. He has a BBA in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Brooke Turk
CFO
Brooke Turk serves as Chief Financial Officer of XTI Aerospace. Over her 30+ year career, Ms. Turk has played a key role in multiple corporate transactions — including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; restructures and reorganizations; debt and equity capital raises, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and an IPO. Previously, Ms. Turk provided CFO services as founding principal of Springboard Ventures, since August 2011 and principal of C Squared Solutions LLC since October 2019. During her time with Springboard Ventures and C Squared Solutions, Ms. Turk has acted as the chief financial officer of several businesses, including MADSKY from March 2017 to October 2018 and CB Scientific Inc. since November 2021. Ms. Turk began her career at Arthur Andersen. She received a Master of Science in Business Administration from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Communication from Western Colorado University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mara Babin
Head of Legal
Ms. Babin serves as Head of Legal for XTI Aerospace. Ms. Babin is a business lawyer with extensive international and U.S. business and legal experience. She brings expertise in management, operations, corporate governance, capital formation, M&A, private equity, venture capital, fund raising, compensation and business development. She was also a partner at Squire, Patton Boggs, a global law firm as well as served as managing director of Golden Seeds, an angel investment network investing in high-growth women-led businesses. Ms. Babin received a B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis and a JD from University of Michigan Law School.
Saleem Zaheer
Chief Commercial Officer
Saleem Zaheer is the Chief Commercial Officer of XTI Aerospace. Mr. Zaheer brings over 40 years of experience in the aviation industry including corporate aviation, the airlines, and the military in the US, the Middle East, and South Asia. He previously served as Vice President Flight Operations & Special Projects for IndiGo, India’s largest airline. He has led flight operations functions at three airlines and is a former United Airlines captain and a pilot with 15,000 flight hours on 28 different aircraft including the MiG 21, Learjet, Airbus 320 and Boeing 777. He serves as Senior Advisor – Airline Operations & Advanced Air Mobility for CAPA India Centre for Aviation – South Asia’s leading specialist aviation advisory, research and knowledge practice.
Tobin Arthur
Chief Strategy Officer
Tobin Arthur serves as Chief Strategy Officer for XTI Aerospace. Mr. Arthur brings over thirty years of experience in helping companies develop and implement corporate strategies focused on innovation. Early in his career, he helped Starbucks Coffee bring disruptive innovation to the market as it became a rapidly growing public company. After his time at Starbucks, Mr. Arthur shifted his focus to the healthcare sector, where he spent the last decade building companies such as CureUs and AngelMD. CureUs, later acquired by Springer Nature, is a pioneering medical publishing platform that allows authors to retain their copyrights while making medical science more accessible. AngelMD is a large online community that connects thousands of startups with clinicians and investors.
Mr. Arthur's experience has enabled him to invest in, and/or advise, over 200 startups and collaborate closely with entrepreneurs to accelerate their ventures. In 2018, he launched the podcast Innovation4Alpha, which evolved into a consulting and investment firm focused on ventures across sectors including ag-tech, security, real estate, healthcare, and aviation. Mr. Arthur holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Southern California.