Company: XTIA
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-098157
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Company: XTI Aerospace, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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 Office Managing Partner for the Denver office. Ms. Axton has a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University and is a Certified Public Accountant. We believe that Ms. Axton’s 30 plus years of experience in start -upand high growth businesses, capital markets, building and leading teams, accounting and auditing, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations and system implementations give her strong qualifications and skills to serve on our Board. 9 David Brody, Director and Secretary Mr. Brody has served as a member of our Board and as our Secretary since March 2024, at the effective time of the XTI Merger. He also currently serves as a director of Legacy XTI. Mr. Brody is the founder of Legacy XTI and previously served as the Chairman of its board until the XTI Merger. He designed the initial TriFan 600 configuration, technology and performance objectives. Mr. Brody formed the initial leadership team, filed for patents and began development of the TriFan airplane in 2014. Mr. Brody is also the founder of the advanced technology helicopter company, AVX Aircraft Company (an engineering design and U.S. defense contractor) and was its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 2013 and continues to serve on the AVX Aircraft Company board. Mr. Brody, a lawyer, practiced law in Denver from 1974 to 2021, including with the international law firm, Hogan Lovells US LLP from 2013 -2021. An inventor, he holds several patents for inventions in aircraft technology and other fields. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and a Juris Doctorate from American University Law School in Washington D.C. We believe that Mr. Brody’s experience in the legal field, in the aerospace industry and as a founder of Legacy XTI qualify him to serve on our Board. Kareem Irfan, Director Mr. Irfan has served as a member of our Board since July 2014. Mr. Irfan has been Chicago -basedCEO (Global Businesses) since 2013 of Cranes Software International Limited (Cranes), a group of multinational corporations providing IT, Big -DataAnalytics, Business Intelligence & Tech -Educationservices. Mr. Irfan previously served as Chief Strategy Officer for Cranes; a General Counsel for Schneider Electric (a Paris -basedglobal leader in energy management) from 2005 to 2011; a Chief