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Gary Cutts
Challenge Director ,
Future Flight, UKRI
Gary has 30 years’ experience in the Aviation industry, mainly working on complex engineering systems, but with experience in business development, customer consultancy and services creation. He has held global leadership positions in Rolls-Royce working across the product lifecycle including creating the System Design function and leading the digital transformation of Engineering for the group. He has also been a board member at the Centre for Modelling and Simulation. Gary is now leading the UK government’s £300m Future Flight Challenge programme working across government and industry to create innovative new aviation systems encompassing drones and Advanced Air Mobility vehicles.