Alpha Profiles · Company Profile

AeroVironment Inc

Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

https://registry.alpha.ac/companies/aerovironment-inc

Entity: Public listing published
Primary listing: NASDAQ: AVAV
Verification: Partially verified
Last reviewed: 2026-09-13T04:45:31.901686+00:00

Overview

Alpha's canonical identity and public leadership record for AeroVironment Inc.

Canonical AEGIS identity graph

Executive leadership

Current, confirmed roles are shown only when both the person Profile and supporting source record satisfy the public projection boundary. A missing role is not evidence that it does not exist.

Executive team

6 public records

Bradley Truesdell

Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer

State: confirmed
Effective: From Aug 13, 2025
Confidence: 94%
Evidence: AVAV DEF 14A executive officersAug 13, 2025

Kevin McDonnell

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

State: confirmed
Effective: From Aug 13, 2025
Confidence: 94%
Evidence: AVAV DEF 14A executive officersAug 13, 2025

Melissa Brown

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary

State: confirmed
Effective: From Aug 13, 2025
Confidence: 94%
Evidence: AVAV DEF 14A executive officersAug 13, 2025

Trace Stevenson

President, Autonomous Systems

State: confirmed
Effective: From Aug 13, 2025
Confidence: 94%
Evidence: AVAV DEF 14A executive officersAug 13, 2025

Wahid Nawabi

Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer

State: confirmed
Effective: From Aug 13, 2025
Confidence: 94%
Evidence: AVAV DEF 14A executive officersAug 13, 2025

William James Ferguson, III

President, Space, Cyber Directed Energy

State: confirmed
Effective: Date not stated
Confidence: 94%
Evidence: AVAV executive roster sourceMay 3, 2026

Governance leadership

Boards & Committees

Board and committee assignments appear only when the canonical public projection retains a current role and supporting source. Unpublished records are not interpreted as absence.

Record as of Sep 13, 2026. Chair, executive office, Lead Independent Director and committee appointments retain their separate source roles. A complete board composition denominator and committee charters are not established by a partial roster.