Amanda Krantz

Amanda Krantz is the Vice President of Partnerships and Business Development at Volansi. In this role, Amanda leads the company’s Department of Defense and commercial accounts teams working with partners like Merck and the Air Force on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs, revolutionizing supply chains and delivering critical parts, essential supplies and life-saving medicines by drone to regions all around the world that were once inaccessible.

Prior to Volansi, Amanda was the founder and CEO of DohJe, a gratitude platform that made it easy for patients to directly thank their nurses and other healthcare heroes. She began her career in the Air Force working at NASA and as an Acquisition Officer at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space on the Airborne Laser and International Space Station. Since then she has held a variety of entrepreneurial business development and product roles at Fortune 500 companies like AOL, Yahoo and AT&T and at several startups, including running a music business from the back of a 15-passenger van while also playing drums in 125 shows in 22 states across the U.S. Amanda has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.S. in Electric Engineering from George Washington University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.