Brandon Torres Declet

As a global CEO, COO, and Board Director with extensive operational experience, Brandon has built, led, and advised private and public companies during complex business evolutions and exits through challenging turnarounds, disruptive transformations, scaling, and strategic pivots. Widely recognized and trusted by the Fortune 500 as a leading Latino and Puerto Rican drone industry entrepreneur and policy expert, he has 25+ years’ experience intersecting top government agencies and corporate industry in highly regulated markets and has firsthand experience successfully navigating regulatory challenges. Most recently, he provided strategic and fiduciary leadership as COO, CEO, and Board Director at AgEagle Aerial Systems (NYSE: UAVS), a leading commercial drone solutions provider. Previously, he founded MEASURE and as CEO, built, grew this aerial intelligence company to the top 5% of drone firms by revenue, subsequently selling the MEASURE drone services business to the Aerodyne Group in 2019, where he served as Chairman of Aerodyne MEASURE. After his first successful exit, he invested and developed a SaaS platform, Ground Control (GC), which provides drone mission planning, data collection, processing, analysis, and intelligence reporting, he had his second successful exit selling that SaaS business to AgEagle for $45M in April 2021. Brandon and his team at MEASURE earned a Technology and Engineering Emmy™ Award for technical work in drone cinematography and was recognized with the Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Excellence. In public service, he was appointed Senior Advisor to Oxford University’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to the FAA’s Advanced Aviation Advisory Committee (AAAC). He has also served as Counsel to U.S. House of Representatives; Homeland Security Committee; Counsel on Capitol Hill to Senator Feinstein, Congresswoman Harman, and Counsel to the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees. A drone industry thought leader, he’s earned features on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Commercial UAV News among others. In 2018 and 2019, he was named a Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine.