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Leaders
Charles Miller
CEO
With over 25 years of experience leading high-growth and turnaround businesses across technology, manufacturing, and private equity, Charles Miller brings deep expertise in scaling companies and driving transformation. He has delivered 1,000% revenue growth, led successful acquisitions, and revitalized organizational culture to unlock performance and profitability. As CEO of Emesent, he now applies this leadership to advance cutting-edge autonomous drone solutions, and has been recognized for guiding some of Canada’s fastest-growing companies.
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Founders
Dr Stefan Hrabar
Co-Founder and CSO
As Emesent’s Chief Strategy Officer, Stefan has been at the forefront of drone autonomy R&D for over 20 years. Following his PhD in Computer Science / Robotics on this topic, he spent 13 years at CSIRO, where he continued his work on vision and LiDAR-based perception and navigation for drones. He led the development and commercialization of Hovermap in CSIRO and co-founded Emesent in 2018 to bring this ground-breaking technology to market.
Founders
Dr Farid Kendoul
Co-Founder and CTO
Farid is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Emesent with 20 years of experience in robotics R&D and the drone industry. He is very passionate about developing advanced technologies for autonomous systems and translating them into impactful commercial solutions. Farid received Engineer, Master and PhD degrees from the University of Technology of Compiegne (France) and has held positions at Chiba University (Japan), CSIRO (Australia) and NASA JPL (USA).
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