Primary Job Title Contract CEO of Autonomous Aviation Safety Company Commercializing NASA Technology Primary Organization 
Vigilant Aerospace Systems
Location Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Kraettli L. Epperson is CEO and co-founder of Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. He has atwenty-year career as a technology company executive and founder, advisor and investor. Mr. Epperson focuses on identifying and developing disruptive technology companies that have a positive, world-changing impact and that facilitate greater openness and access
to information and opportunity. Previously, he was a software developer and software architect and has deep expertise in software project management, data systems design and management and geospatial systems. He has founded, co-founded or advised 25 technology companies including as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Questia Media which raised $160 MM in venture capital to build the world’s largest online academic digital library for high school and college students. The company was acquired by Gale Publishing in 2010. He was also the co-founder, inventor, patent holder and chairman of HyperAlert, a leading voice response and crisis communications system serving 5 of the top 20 transit agencies in the US. He is also the co-founder and chairman of R7 Solutions, which currently provides the software, systems and data to manage all land and right-of-way data for Houston METRO’s $1Bn regional commuter rail expansion. He created and served as an adjunct professor for Rice University’s first undergraduate course in entrepreneurship and in 2013 he co-founded and managed a venture accelerator that in 24 months launched 11 startups, 5 of which acquired funding on multi-million dollar valuations.
He earned his degree at Rice University.
