Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee Tulane Engineering degree plus "Strategic Marketing Management," "Leading Product Development" and “Leading Product Innovation” at The Harvard Business School. In 1984, Tom founded a company to invent inflight trash compactor technology for commercial airplane galleys. He has been granted 25+ U.S. and international patents and accepted the "President's Award" from the Inflight Food Service Association for the development of the most innovative new hardware for commercial aircraft inflight operations, a recycling trash compactor. Tom spent the latter part of his career with Safran in their internal “ZEO Design and Innovation Studio” where the team innovated future aircraft cabins for many of the world’s airlines plus Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier & Embraer. Tom is currently working with Applied Mobility Partners on cabin interior design of several of the world’s most ambitious new mobility vehicles including electric vertical take-off and landing air taxis, supersonic aircraft and ground breaking sustainable fuel airplanes.