Basil Yap is a venture capital investor at AeroX Ventures who previously served as UAS Program Manager for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, where he helped build an award-winning program that enabled the first routine medical package delivery operations in the U.S. and led the state's participation in the FAA's three-year UAS Integration Pilot Program. As founding member and President of the AeroX nonprofit, he secured a $5M state grant to build a regional UAS traffic management system over ~1,000 square miles in North Carolina's Triad and serves as an appointee to NASA's Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable, helping define critical issues for the U.S. aeronautics research agenda. Basil Yap is a venture capital investor at AeroX Ventures who previously served as UAS Program Manager for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, where he helped build an award-winning program that enabled the first routine medical package delivery operations in the U.S. and led the state's participation in the FAA's three-year UAS Integration Pilot Program. As founding member and President of the AeroX nonprofit, he secured a $5M state grant to build a regional UAS traffic management system over ~1,000 square miles in North Carolina's Triad and serves as an appointee to NASA's Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable, helping define critical issues for the U.S. aeronautics research agenda.