Our Story
Our passion for drones and wanting to be part of this exciting industry brought us together to create DroneControl. Starting in 2021 with our consumer app DroneControl Explorer - utilizing our peer to peer protocol which delivers industry best low latency for real-time streaming and remote control.
Following the success of this app in the consumer space - DroneControl expanded in 2022 to offer DroneControl FirstResponder to the public safety space. We are passion about achieving our mission to offer the total drone software solution to public safety and are excited about our acerated development road map in the next few months. We are partnering with market leading organisations to ensure our solution offers full regulatory compliance with minimum admin, allowing more, safer flying for your public safety team. We are proud to be helping improve incident response and protect more lives everyday.
We pride ourselves on our responsiveness, reliability and to be the industries most trusted partner. Our agility allows us to be flexible to our customer requirements and needs and offer fully customizable solutions
Meet Our Team
Thomas Ingold
CEO - Founder
Over 16 years of senior commercial experience with some of the world's biggest companies and brands.
A passionate Drone user - especially when climbing in the Alps where he is based in Geneva, Switzerland with his family
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Ross Feehan
CTO - Co-Founder
Ross brings a wealth of experience having held a number of senior roles in both start-up and blue-chip companies.
Based in London, UK his operational experience with a focus on Android and full stack development as well as his strategic leadership are a key asset to the leadership team.
Jernej Jerin
Founder
Highly experienced software engineer and the brains behind our unique P2P software protocol and security features.
Jernej is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia and spends his time flying drones around the surrounding mountains
Paul Lindup
UK Business Development Lead
Paul has a wealth of experience and knowledge from the UK drone industry having spent his career in Policing, Network Rail and other public safety focused organisations.
He is based in Essex, UK with his family and is passionately involved in the UK drone scene as part of different working groups looking to progress the use of UAVs.
Jeff Stone
Dach Business Development Lead
Jeff brings an extensive military and firefighting experience plus a successful software career to DroneControl.
He is an American national but has been living in Germany for the last 25 years. Based in the Wuerzburg Area, he has a huge passion for technology and the benefits it can bring to public safety.
Marina Kolesnichenko
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Based in Ukraine, Marina brings a wealth of experience from various sectors including Gaming, Remote Working Solutions and Construction Infrastructure.
She also is experienced in working within highly security focused organisations having spent part of her career developing secure digital IDs.
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Maksim Shcherbynsky
Back End Engineer
Maksim is a highly experienced back end engineer who has developed his skill set over a number of years on a variety of projects.
He supports Marina on all elements of our back end and is responsible of any quick changes linked to customer requests
In his spare time he enjoys traveling, fashion photography and boxing!
Valentin Leanca
Senior Front End Engineer
Valentin brings to DroneControl not only a passion for the drone industry, but great experience across multiple sectors and an expertise in many of the languages and libraries we are implementing.
He is responsible for the DroneControl portal and is accountable for ensuring a fantastic user experience and a seamless flow from our back-end to our front-end UI.
He is based in Chișinău, Moldova and is a keen drone pilot and coincidently he has a Swiss drone pilot’s licence having flown over here extensively!
FPV Pilot & Firefighter with Expertise in image technology and drone modification for public safety and tactical purposes.
Tom is also a leading drone influencer who has travelled globally training first responders on UAV usage in incident response.
Highly experienced RPAS pilot from London Fire Brigade and UK ISAR.
Lee has been a trail blazer for the UK drone industry and had worked in many countries across the world as part of his international search and rescue responsibilities.
Based in Germany, Grant is a true drone-expert with extensive experience in providing emergency care, primary care, and rescue operations across various settings, including pre-hospital, remote, and hazardous environments.
He has a proven track record of working within professional and volunteer rescue, medical, and support teams under diverse conditions.
Master Sergeant in the Greek Airforce, has made significant contributions to the field of drone operations, particularly in coordinating wildfire response efforts with the Greek Fire Services.
Additionally, Dionysios is the host of "The Drones Pioneers Vodcast," where he shares cutting-edge insights into drone technology as well as being responsible for drone operations for Risks Incorporated.