Colby Free

Colby Free is the Vice President of Federal and Strategic Solutions of Airspace Link. Colby is responsible for supporting Airspace Link in leading AirHub product solutions tailored to support organizations establish full operational control of UAS in low altitude airspace across all jurisdictions and stakeholder organizations. Colby guides a fast-paced product management team and product implementation team providing product support, project and program management for strategic large scales implementations.

Colby has a unique and diverse background offering 25+ years of experience as an industry leader supporting multiple award-winning innovative enterprise UAS and geospatial initiatives and solutions in the private and public sectors including Defense, Federal, State and Local customers. Colby also led a P&L of Federal business as Managing Partner with over 100 personnel and delivering tens of millions of dollars of projects for Defense and Civilian accounts, establishing strategic contract vehicles, supporting large programs and sustainably multiplying business growth.

Colby applies collaborative organizational innovation strategies married with proven business processes to deliver a project and program portfolios filled with solutions spanning broad use cases that have transformed large organizations and programs with innovative solutions using a combination of cloud, geospatial, UAS, machine learning and web technologies.