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NEX Aero appoints new leadership team for heavy-lift UAS market entry

Dec 2, 2025 · Executive Hire · NEX Aero · Aerial

NEX Aero appointed Uwe Gross as CEO and Martin Stobbe as chief product officer while founder Johannes Garbino-Anton continued as CTO.

  • Gross joined after aviation and urban-air-mobility roles including work at Porsche, while Stobbe brought aircraft-development experience from Volocopter and Intel.
  • NEX Aero said it had completed the definition of its first heavy-lift cargo-drone product and was building an enhanced prototype.
  • The company positioned the leadership changes around an initial market-entry system for remote and safety-critical industrial logistics.

NEX Aero develops heavy-lift uncrewed cargo aircraft for maritime, offshore and remote industrial logistics. Founded in 2021, the Munich company is engineering electric and hybrid-electric platforms around payloads of roughly 50 to 100 kilograms and mission ranges spanning short port links to longer regional routes. Its roadmap emphasises operational reliability, certification and repeatable corridor-based logistics.

Company
NEX Aero
Segment
Aerial
Event type
Executive Hire
Added to Korthos
Jul 16, 2026
Geography
Munich · Germany