Flight Insight

FLIGHT INSIGHT

About Us

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Our Vision and Values

Flight Insight launched in 2016 and our focus was on manned aviation, auditing safety, and risk management services creating industry leading practices.

Fast forward to 2019 our clients asked us to take that vision and focus into Drone/RPAS Airspace Management and we did with our continued passion.

Today we are one of North America’s leading Unmanned Traffic Management SaaS platforms The Flight Insight Portal.

We continue to meet their auditing services while striving every day to build better tools, leverage technology and bring our expertise to unmanned and manned aviation safety.

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We're Here To Help

Flight Insight is a premier aviation safety and compliance organization specializing in:

  • Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) The Flight Insight Portal
  • RPAS/Drone Policy and Procedures
  • Manned Auditing Services
  • Confined space and external Drone leasing options
  • Advanced Drone training

Regarded world-wide as leaders in systems and processes in aviation safety–Flight Insight should be your first call.

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Our Safety Philosophy

Flight Insight utilizes the IOGP (International Oil and Gas Producers) Aircraft Management Guidelines as a safety standard and our fully accredited auditors are approved by IBAC Advanced (International Business Aviation Council) IS-BAO (International Standards for Business Aircraft Operations).

We believe accountability to both a professional international accrediting body and an independent industry-recognized standard is fundamental when assessing any operation’s level of safety.

Leadership Team

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“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

— John Maxwell

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Jesse Kornelson

Director of Information Technology

Aside from co-founding Flight Insight Mr. Kornelson has developed Flight Insight into the SAAS platform it is today.

Jesse has the perfect mix of commercial flying and software development which provides well thought out aviation based solutions and additions to Flight Insight.

Jesse is an Airline Transport Rated Pilot and avid RPAS pilot with 16 aircraft in his fleet.

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Brent Genesis

Managing Director

Veteran entrepreneur and aviation investor Mr. Genesis funded and developed the team that co-founded the commercial launch of Flight Insight in 2016.

With over 20 years in the aviation industry his expertise has included commercial charter pilot, flight logistics manager, administrator and currently the principal of Genesis Aviation Inc. a commercial private jet charter service.

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Jim Paul

Senior Manager of Aviation Compliance

Jim is a seasoned aviation professional with over 37 years of domestic and international operations experience. He is a current Airline Transport Rated pilot with nearly 20,000 flight hours on a compliment of aircraft types across the spectrum of CARS 604 (PORD), 703, 704 & 705 categories.

Jim has served, for the past three decades as an aviation operational and safety auditor, conducting rigorous audits. Jim is a leading accident investigator. His expertise has driven significant improvements in safety protocols and operational efficiency across multiple air operators and influenced the industry as whole.

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Greg Hurd

Principal - Private Security Risk Management Practice

Greg is the principal of a security risk management practice with a focus on new markets, energy and cyber spaces. He is based in Calgary, Alberta.

He was most recently the Head of Security- North America for Statoil / Equinor ASA. He was responsible for the security management program including awareness, threat assessment, information protection, and advice on physical security safeguards. He contributed greatly to the reorganization of the security practice in the company following a terrorist attack on its facilities in 2013.

Greg has considerable experience in corporate security, working primarily in the energy sector for over 25 years. He has held senior roles with major international corporations. He has extensive law enforcement experience, including over 14 years with the Prince Albert Police Force as a senior non-commissioned officer, where he served in the Patrol Operations, Criminal Investigation (Youth) and Community Policing sections.

Committed to lifelong learning, he has been a guest lecturer at post-secondary institutions in security management and policing studies.

Greg holds the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation conferred by ASIS International. He is active with ASIS having served as an officer at the Chapter and Regional level and has contributed to the managing Board on issues of International membership.

He also has served with the Professional Certification Board (PCB, the governing body which confers the Certified Protection Professional designation as well as 3 others) in the development of board certification for security professionals. He is a past President of the PCB.

Greg has also served on the President’s Commission on Governance to create and introduce a new governance model for ASIS International.

Committed to his industry Greg has served as a past chairman of the National Energy Security Professionals (NESP) network. Greg is a two-time recipient of a volunteer recognition award from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers for his contributions to the ongoing effort around energy infrastructure security. He volunteers with the Calgary Stampede and has been a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Stampede.

Greg holds a Master of Science degree in the study of Security and Risk Management from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, a Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety from the University of Alberta and is a Fellow of the Security Institute (UK).

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Mark George

Managing Partner & Founder of EdgeMark Capital and Advisory Services Inc.

Mark is a proven business leader with global experience in multiple industries. Prior to starting EdgeMark, he served as the President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Environmental Refuelling Systems Inc., a privately-held fuel logistics and distribution company headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

From 2011 through August 2016, he was the Director of Business Development for PricewaterhouseCoopers, leading the sales of professional services to companies in the oil and gas industry across the globe.

From 2000 to 2010, he served as the Founder and President of the Cielo group of companies, a regional provider of home and office design and construction services in Arizona.

Mark has an intensive interest in emerging technologies, having spent 15 years with Nortel, Bay Networks, DEC and Honeywell in progressive sales, management and executive roles throughout the Americas and Asia Pacific.

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Erika Carrasco

Partner - Field Law

As a litigator, Erika brings over 12 years of experience providing advice and representation to businesses in the insurance, construction, energy and technology sectors. Erika has achieved success for her clients at all levels of Court in Alberta.

More recently, she has focused a significant part of her practice on helping clients navigate the dynamic legal, business and insurance landscape of emerging technologies and risks, including drones, cyber security, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, and AI.

Erika is one of few lawyers in Canada with a focus and experience in emerging technology – as one example – she successfully argued the first appeal of a charge against a drone operator in Canada under the Canadian Aviation Regulations.

Erika received her Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in 2001 and her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Calgary in 2006.

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