Kitty Hawk Nabs GC From Alphabet's Wing as it Sets Air Taxi Test – Bloomberg Law

Kitty Hawk Corp., an air taxi startup looking to put a pilotless shuttle in the sky, has hired Nancy Egan as chief policy and administrative officer.Egan joined Kitty Hawk within the last month from her role as general counsel for Wing Aviation LLC, the drone delivery unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc. Scott Coriell, a Wing spokesman, confirmed that the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is searching for Egan’s replacement.Kitty Hawk is one of several companies operating in the air taxi space. Former Google executive Sebastian Thrun, a German-born computer scientist, started the Mountain View, Calif.-based company in 2010 and serves as its CEO. Kitty Hawk has the financial backing of Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page. Egan’s move comes less than a month after Archer Aviation Inc., another Palo Alto-based electric aviation startup, hired chief legal officer Andrew Missan. He joined Archer from FitBit Inc., where Missan served as general counsel through the fitness startup’s $2.1 billion sale to Alphabet, which closed earlier this year.Another Kitty Hawk rival includes Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Joby Aviation LLC, which last year acquired the former flying car unit of Uber Technologies Inc. Joby went public in August by merging with a special purpose acquisition…
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