Travis Mason

Travis Mason is the Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer at Merlin, where he leads a team of engineers focused on certification, policy, product safety assurance, and human factors. Before joining Merlin, Travis served as the Vice President of Certification and Regulatory Affairs at Airbus, overseeing the company's efforts to scale advanced air mobility, eVTOLs, and high-altitude platforms. At Alphabet's Google and X, he helped solve policy and regulatory challenges for autonomous and life science technologies. Most recently, Mason served as a founding operating partner at Seven Seven Six, a software-enabled venture capital fund investing in space tech, prop-tech, food tech, fintech, cleantech, and Web3 industries. Travis is a board member at Destiny.xyz and Maxwell School of Citizenship, the country’s number one ranked program in public policy.