The management team and advisory board of YourJet brings together 80 years of experience in the aviation industry, aircraft sales, software development, internet-based marketing, and business development. Under their leadership, the company is projected to grow to 190 employees in 2012.
Suzanne Dudgeon House
Founder and President, is responsible for YourJet branding, marketing, and communications. She began her career as a project manager for Charles Schwab in their San Francisco headquarters. She then moved back to Louisville where she was a media buyer for Sheehy, Knopf and Shaver Advertising. She joined Price Weber Marketing and Communications as an Account Executive where she managed accounts for KFC/Taco Bell, Maybelline, Brown-Forman Beverages, Kroger, General Electric and Arby’s. She is now a serial entrepreneur with the founding of her second company, YourJet, LLC. She is currently working towards her private pilot certificate while she manages YourJet's day to day affairs and her personal fitness and nutrition consulting company, NTANDEM, LLC.
Todd House
Founder and CEO, is responsible for the overall governance of YourJet. He had his first flying lesson at age 13, later earned his his private pilot certificate and instrument and multi-engine ratings. After medical school he served 13 years in active reserve military service in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force where he earned his designation as a Naval Flight Surgeon and Air Force Flight Surgeon. His flight experience includes FA-18 fighters, helicopters, transport and several general aviation aircraft. He is currently attached to the U.S. Air Force Individual Ready Reserve where holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Dr. House is a board certified anesthesiologist and partner in the practice of Dupont Anesthesia PSC.
Ken Shapero
Chief Strategy Officer, is responsible for synchronizing the companies regulatory, strategic and tactical planning and execution. He spent 15 years at UPS Airlines as Director of Information, Media and Public Relations and Communications where he developed special expertise in the areas of advanced air traffic management technologies, labor relations, government affairs and crisis communications. He spent five years as the managing partner of The Jazz Factory in Louisville, and seven years as a reporter and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. Mr. Shapero holds a single-engine private pilot certificate with instrument rating.
The YourJet advisory board:
- Richard Vance - Chrysalis Ventures
- Bill Strench - Frost Brown Todd
- Pat Cole - Director of Aviation Services for Humana, Inc.
- Nigel Travis - President and CEO, Papa John's International
- Louis Meiners - Advocate Tax Consultants and aviation attorney
- Clyde Ensor, III - President Excel Air Charter and Hesco Auto Parts
- Richard Kane -Chairman and CEO, Coastal Technologies Group, Inc. and Coastal Aviation Software, Inc.
- Joe Reagan - President, Greater Louisville, Inc.
- Steve Parker - Deputy Director, Kentucky Department of Aviation
- Tom Eifler, Jr. - President, Eifler Group and Eifler Tower Crane
- Mike Safai - Maintenance Manager, UPS Airlines, retired
- Lance Tucker -CFO, Evergreen Real Estate
- Cindy Pearson - Director of Flight Dispatch, UPS Airlines, retired
- Joseph Keating - President, Keating Aviation Consulting
- Mark Rollins - Senior Flight Service Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration, retired