Carl Dietrich

Terrafugia’s CEO/CTO, Co-Founder, Carl Dietrich received his BS, MS and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shortly after being selected as the 2006 winner of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Innovation. Carl was additionally recognized by the Aero/Astro Department at MIT as one of sixteen exceptional graduates under the age of 35.

Carl has also received “40 Under 40” awards from the Boston Business Journal (2009) and Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine (2012). He has been a private pilot since the age of seventeen.