Shreekant Agrawal

Shreekant Agrawal said “I love Spike’s vision for quiet (low-boom) supersonic flight and am very excited to bring my years of aerospace engineering and management experience to bring supersonic flight to the market. They have a very compelling vision that is going to change civilian aviation.”

Dr. Shreekant Agrawal has over 35 years of aerospace industry experience including 29 years at the Boeing Company, where he had a variety of assignments in functional, program, and technology management. He received recognition as a technical fellow in 1996 from Boeing Research & Technology Flight Sciences organization where he managed and worked on supersonic low-boom research projects and strategic planning for technology development for future products.

In one of his many roles, Dr. Agrawal was a leader of Boeing’s High-Speed Aerodynamics Technology group and as IPT leader of the NASA/Industry High Speed Research program, he led the aerodynamics, flight controls, stability & control, laminar flow control, propulsion/airframe integration, and sonic boom research efforts. His contributions range from developing and applying advanced aerodynamics/computational analysis and design optimization methods for supersonic commercial transport and hypersonic vehicles.

He has also served as the chief operating officer and director of operations for a joint venture in the Boeing Defense Military Aircraft Division. He has 12 publications in the archival journals, over 50 papers in various conferences, and 1 patent on supersonic aircraft design.

Shreekant earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, an M.S. from the University of Maryland, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; all in aerospace engineering.