Building Out A Drone-as-a-Service Model Through Acquisition

About this episode

This episode discusses ZenaTech's aggressive push into the drone-as-a-service market through acquisitions and the challenges faced in integrating multiple companies.

In this week's episode of Uncrewed Views, Matt Collins speaks with Linda Montgomery, Vice President of Corporate Development, and Phil Franklin, Vice President of Business Development at ZenaTech, about the company's aggressive push into the drone-as-a-service market. The three discuss ZenaTech's rapid acquisition strategy across sectors like land surveying, power washing, and infrastructure inspection, the cultural challenges of integrating more than 20 companies in roughly a year, and how the evolving regulatory landscape is shaping the company's domestic manufacturing ambitions.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Collins

Guests: Linda Montgomery, Phil Franklin

Topics covered

• drone-as-a-service
• acquisition strategy
• business development
• regulatory landscape
• corporate development

Keywords

• drone
• acquisition
• business development
• infrastructure inspection
• regulatory challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ZenaTech

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