#81 Glenn Gonzales - From Fighter Jets to Luxury Aircraft
Alex MacPhail Podcast
English - September 29, 2021 06:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Management teams high performance entrepreneurship management flying aviation pilot business sport racing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
From fighter jets to luxury aircraft. Alex MacPhail talks to Glenn Gonzales who is the co-founder and CEO of Jet It,
Gonzales, a lieutenant colonel Air Force veteran, started his career flying F-15s in 2005. He served as an instructor pilot and was later deployed to Kyrgyzstan. He transitioned to the reserves in 2009 and began working at planemaker Gulfstream while pursuing his MBA at the University of South Carolina. The Houston native had his first brush with elite travel while demonstrating flights for executives and high net worth customers.
He met his future co-founder, Vishal Hiremath, who also worked in sales at Gulfstream, in 2013. After flying to India, they were stuck together for a week because the plane needed repairs.
The following year, he went to work at Honda Aircraft Company, managing sales for the Northeast region. For years, he kept hearing the same complaint from customers, that they loved HondaJets but couldn't justify the cost of buying a plane. In 2016, he started planning to launch his own business and currently he captains flights for Jet It occasionally.
ALEX MACPHAIL
GLENN GONZALES