Hannan Parvizian

Advisor at Cota Capital

Hannan is the Co-founder and CEO of Volansi, a B2B and B2G drone logistics startup that designs, develops and operates large, medium-payload, long-range drones for enterprise delivery and government applications. As CEO, he grew Volansi to an organization of over 150 engineers and operators, captured over $1B in federal and enterprise contracts from customers such as MERCK, US Air Force, US Navy and US Army and raised over $75M in venture funding. Prior to founding Volansi, Hannan was an analyst at Tesla, where he came up with the idea for Volansi and was inspired to start a company. Before Tesla, Hannan held a number of engineering and consulting roles at Accenture and Siemens. He earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.