About Fire Armada
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mike Marzetta
Founder | President
Mike started the Fire Armada to raise awareness about strategies and tactics that can be deployed to snuff out wildfires.
Mike is President of Altek, Inc., a contract manufacturing organization with core competencies in plastic injection molding, tooling, machining, and electronic assembly. Altek serves customers in the aerospace, medical, technology, space and defense sectors. Mike is also a co-founder of MINDS-i Education, a high-performance robotics system empowering STEM educators and their students to create extreme autonomous inventions of their own design. He holds a Masters of Organization Development from the University of Minnesota and is a founder and Past Chair of the Inland Northwest Aerospace Consortium. Mike was named the Washington State Aerospace Future’s Alliance Executive of the year in 2020.
Kelly Maloney
Founder | Vice President
Kelly is CEO of OLI Global and the former President and CEO of the Aerospace Futures Alliance and the Washington State Space Coalition. She has worked globally to grow and strengthen the aerospace and space industries. She was responsible for advocacy representing more than 1450 aerospace and related businesses, driving successful outcomes for high-impact legislative agendas including year-over-year retention of $8.7 billion in tax savings for the industry and policy to enhance the business climate in WA. Kelly has her Master’s in Communication and Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University. She is a board member for the Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee.
Christy Marzetta
Founder | Secretary/Treasurer
Christy is a co-founder of Minds-i Education, ....
Rick Taylor
Founder | Vice President
Rick Taylor is Vice President of Altek, Inc. In this role, he oversees business development, operations, engineering, assembly, quality, and the mold shop. Rick joined Altek in 1985, starting as a CNC machinist working swing shift. Rick worked his way up to programming, and shortly thereafter, Machine Shop Manger. Rick was promoted to Vice President in 2001. He led the effort to expand Altek’s offerings beyond its original industry focus to provide contract manufacturing for five separate industries: aerospace, medical, space, technology, and defense. He is the Vice Chair of INWAC (Inland Northwest Aerospace Consortium), which he helped co-found in 2002.
Bill Hockett
Founder | Vice President
Bill is President and owner of Critical Data....