Suhas Kakde, CEO and President, is the majority
owner of US Aeroteam.
Prior
to 1985, he had worked for 10 years with SW
Ohio companies ranging in size from small to Fortune 500,
as a Design Engineer, Manager, Director, and Vice President
of Technology and Strategy. He applied numerous initiatives
which saved tens of millions of dollars for GE Aircraft Engine,
GM & the USAF.
It was upon the USAF and US-SBA's
initiative that USAeroteam
was honored in Washington DC in May of 1995. The flag
of United States was flown over the US Capitol
in US Aeroteam's honor on April 12, 1995 for being named
among the top ten small business prime contractors in
the nation for quality, leadership, technology and delivery
to the US Govt.
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Governor Bob Taft's letter
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> BS
Mechanical Engineering, MS Product Design (IIT Bombay,
India), MBA Finance and Marketing, University of
Cincinnati. Declined Guggenheim Doctoral Fellowship
at MIT Boston to be an entrepreneur.
> Commercial, Instrument,
Multi-Engine Pilot since 1977.
> Addressed
500 managers, engineers and administrators of General
Electric on "Winning Corporate Culture and
Diversity" September 1994.
> Founded
and later spun off Infoglobe Inc, a 350 employees software
service company operating in San Jose, CA; London, UK;
Dayton, OH and Bangalore, India (1996-2002). Won Intel
recognition for assisting in the development of Pentium.
> Employed and
led 550 associates in 3 companies in early 2000s.
> Happily married
to Patricia Braeuning, MD. Formerly a tenured Assoc. Prof. of
medicine – radiology. Univ. N. Carolina, Chappell Hill. Head of
women’s Breast Disease Center, The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati.
(Regarded expert in the field.)