Paul Allen has served as Airship AI's President since December 2023 and led the operating company as President since 2019, having joined in 2015 as Director of Business Development and been promoted to Vice President of Sales in 2017. Before Airship he was a partner at a boutique firm serving the U.S. Government and Department of Defense and spent 14 years at IBM, leaving as a Business Unit Executive. He retired from the U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Command in 2021 after more than 28 years, most as a Green Beret, and holds a bachelor's degree from Norwich University.