Vin Loccisano is founder and CEO of AirQtel where he directs the company's engineering, product development, and manufacturing activities.  Prior to founding AirQtel Vin held a variety of executive and legal roles at Schlumberger, including the management of a $1.1 billion annual research budget and a global staff of 140 scientists and engineers.  Earlier, he was Schlumberger Oilfield UK’s Director, M&A Counsel and IP Counsel, closing $900M in acquisitions in three years, while also directing the company’s research and manufacturing operations in the UK, France, Norway and Russia.

An early employee at the Kleiner Perkins clean tech venture, Ogin Inc., Vin served as Ogin’s Chief IP Counsel, and contributed to the company's prototype research and development activities in the US and Denmark. He was also the founder of Simulation Design and Engineering Corp., a firm that specialized in rapid prototyping and project deployment in the anti-terrorist protection and threat assessment field in Africa, Russia, East Asia and the Middle East.

Vin holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University (’97), a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University (’01) and a sponsored executive MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (’09).

Outside of work, Vin has logged thousands of hours flying planes and helicopters and he has built and raced almost every form of transportation in several different countries.  He has personally designed and built 11 high-performance composite boats, including a gas turbine-powered 37-foot carbon-fiber mono-hull capable of 90 mph. He has also built or restored over 48 cars, including a 1973 Porsche 911rs, a 2005 Porsche 911 GT2, and multiple Land Rover Defender 110s.