Inês Folhadela Furtado

Inês Folhadela Furtado is CEO of Eliot and Director of the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Business Unit at CEiiA, a leading Portuguese center for engineering and product development. She leads multidisciplinary teams dedicated to developing innovative UAV platforms that enable the safe, scalable integration of AAM into future mobility systems. Before stepping into executive roles, Inês managed R&D projects across aeronautics, aerospace, and ocean technologies at CEiiA. She also gained international experience as a production engineer at Haartz in Boston and Corticeira Amorim in Portugal. Inês holds a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from Nova University and a postgraduate degree in Project Management from Porto Business School. At Eliot, she is at the forefront of unmanned aviation, driving the development of UAV technologies that solve critical challenges in logistics, defense, and sustainable air mobility.