Event
NEX Aero appoints new leadership team for heavy-lift UAS market entry
NEX Aero appointed Uwe Gross as CEO and Martin Stobbe as chief product officer while founder Johannes Garbino-Anton continued as CTO.
Evidence notes
- 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.
Company context
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.
Context
- Company
- NEX Aero
- Segment
- Aerial
- Event type
- Executive Hire
- Added to Korthos
- Jul 16, 2026
- Geography
- Munich · Germany