About us
Meet our team
Kacper Lecki
Chief Executive Officer
Kacper is a pioneer in developing virtual aerospace platforms (VAPs). Kacper contributed to physics-based simulations ranging from cosmological simulations to configuration-agnostic aircraft performance analysis. He has 6 years experience collaborating with frontier markets from Canada, Asia, Latin America and Africa. He has a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from TU Delft. He is responsible for technology development.
Jay Godsall
Chair
Jay has 35 years experience developing technology ventures. He wrote his thesis at McGill U. on airship transport in Africa. He is co-founder of Solar Ship. Jay has raised over $100M in startup financing as a co-founder for ventures ranging from barcoding pathogens to electric aviation. He is responsible for organizing people, strategy and financing.
Matt O’Leary
Product Development
Matt has 20 years experience building technology products and leading startup teams. This includes building technology ventures in Africa and redesigning and building the RateMDs website. Matt is responsible for product development.
Stephanie Sitzberger
Project Manager
Stephanie has 30 years experience managing operations in remote areas with 10 years experience managing internships and sabbaticals in North America and Africa. She is responsible for managing team leaders and tracking results.
Story
Kacper Lecki was an aerospace engineering student at NYU when he was introduced to Jay Godsall, a Canadian entrepreneur organizing The Peace + Freedom Design Exchange in the summer of 2020. The COVID pandemic was shutting down the global economy, but the student program was connecting the world.
Kacper was the leader of a team designing a solar-powered airship with African students. After the program, Kacper returned to NYU and couldn’t stop thinking about the power of this program to unite the world and solve problems using new designs for new flying machines. In 2021, Jay visited Kacper at NYU’s campus in Abu Dhabi. Jay pitched Kacper on the idea of organizing an airship race in Africa. Kacper suggested the two of them could do a virtual aerospace competition – when ideas crash in a virtual environment, one does not need to fix aircraft and order new parts. One can just reboot the program and fly again.
Over a cup of tea on campus, they agreed to launch a new company. Aerolympics was born.
