aurence is Managing Director at AE Industrial Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm with over $5 billion of assets under management. Her primary focus is on business development and portfolio management across AE Industrial’s funds and sectors, with several board roles including with Columbia Helicopters and Edge Autonomy. She previously worked in commercial, technical and operational roles across the aerospace industry, including as Chief Executive Officer of the GE Passport JV engine program of GE Aerospace with IHI and Safran, and at Sikorsky Aircraft, CIT Aerospace and The Weather Company. She flew Learjets commercially, earned SM and PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics (Engineering) at MIT and is a member of the Wings Club Foundation.