Kevin Hoffman
President and CEO


Kevin’s educational background includes a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Alabama with continuing graduate studies on an MSAE from the University of Alabama and Georgia Institute of Technology. During his graduate studies, Kevin was involved with the University of Alabama Flight Dynamics Laboratory as a Graduate Assistant in the design of flight simulator cockpits, then on a system for analyzing wind shear in the simulator environment.

In 1985 Kevin joined Gulfstream Aerospace in the Engineering Flight Test Department where he honed his skills in test and certification requirements as well as preparing test plans and procedures. Following the certification of the GIV, he joined the Product Development group where he had constant exposure to CAD/CAM while doing conceptual aircraft design, aerodynamic analyses and computational fluid design analysis on 3D models. In 1990 he moved to Canadair Aerospace where he was in charge of the Conceptual Aircraft Design and Aircraft Design Tool Development for the Advanced Design Group. Kevin also coordinated and directed the conceptual and Preliminary Design phases of the Next Model Executive Jet (Global Express). This included configuration design, networking, program planning, assigning responsibilities, maintaining program schedules and budgets, and coordinating and leading all teams through the Conceptual and Preliminary design phases.

In 1994, Kevin joined the Sales and Marketing Group as the Director of Global Express Technical Sales. This entailed providing technical presentations to customers during discussions of the Global Express. In 1997, he transitioned to Product Management as the Global Express Product Director until he founded Aerospace Concepts.