{"id":23289,"date":"2022-08-29T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=23289"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:25:46","slug":"droneup-appoints-david-guggina-to-company-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/virginia\/droneup-appoints-david-guggina-to-company-board\/%20","title":{"rendered":"DroneUp Appoints David Guggina to Company Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DroneUp, LLC has announced the appointment of David Guggina,\nSenior Vice President of Innovation and Automation at Walmart, to the company\u2019s\nboard of directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/David-Guggina-headshot-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23290\" width=\"199\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/David-Guggina-headshot-edit.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/David-Guggina-headshot-edit-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><figcaption><em>David Guggina<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Guggina brings a deep level of operational and\ncustomer-facing expertise from market-leading brands. Following a role in the\nwarehouse group leader program at Anheuser-Busch, he spent nine years at\nAmazon, beginning in fulfillment operations before advancing to general manager\nof customer service operations. Over the last four years as Walmart\u2019s SVP of\nInnovation and Automation, he has led the roll-out of automation technology\nwithin their supply chain network and the implementation of last mile delivery\ncapabilities. He has also held senior roles overseeing product, engineering,\nand operations at Walmart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver the course of his career, David has been at the\nforefront of transformational changes that have delivered extraordinary\nwarehouse and operational efficiencies to improve the customer service\nexperience,\u201d said Tom Walker, founder and CEO of DroneUp. \u201cWe are thrilled to\nwelcome David to our board at a time when DroneUp is pushing the boundaries of\ndelivery and customer expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDroneUp has been a key player in making customer delivery\nvia drone a reality for millions of customers across the country,\u201d said\nGuggina. \u201cI am honored to join the DroneUp board as the company builds on its\nreputation of reliability and convenience for businesses and consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David joins existing board members: Eric Grubman, Chairman\nof SGHC Limited, Thomas Walker, CEO, DroneUp; Thomas R. Ward, EVP E-Commerce,\nWalmart US; Thomas R. Frantz, Partner, Williams Mullen; and Jerrold L. Miller,\nCEO, The Miller Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DroneUp, LLC has announced the appointment of David Guggina, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Automation at Walmart, to the company\u2019s board of directors. Guggina brings a deep level of operational and customer-facing expertise from market-leading brands. Following a role in the warehouse group leader program at Anheuser-Busch, he spent nine years at Amazon, beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems","category-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23291,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289\/revisions\/23291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}