Chris Motta has been involved in the aviation field for over 20 years and has been working in the life support and survival equipment sector for the past 10 years. He separated from the United States Navy in 1989 after 10 years of service within the fighter community. During his 10 years of active military service, Chris held several key management and leadership positions at various F-14 and F-18 operational, and test and evaluation commands. Following his separation from active duty, Chris entered the automotive aftermarket industry where he held sales and operations management positions within Delphi, Exide Technologies, and Interstate Battery Systems of America. In December of 2006, Chris moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where he accepted a marketing position as Business Development Marketing Coordinator at Cobham St. Petersburg. In June of 2007, he was promoted to the position of Government Business Development Manager responsible for the U.S. Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). In January of 2008, Chris was given additional Business Development responsibility for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard. Chris was responsible for increasing Cobham’s market presence within the survival equipment sector with products such as auto-inflators, water-activated parachute releases, ground vehicle restraints, along with fixed-wing and rotary-wing crew seating restraint systems. In November of 2016 Chris was promoted to Key Account Manager, responsible for the Cobham Mission Systems Sector products within Lockheed-Martin (Sikorsky) and UTAS. Chris was awarded his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix in 2004 and has completed numerous professional courses including Dr Karrass’s Effective Negotiating, Dale Carnegie's Beyond Sales Training and MBDi’s Business Development Professional course, Mastering Business Development.Specialties: Contract negotiations, government liason, new product development