Swiss Apprenticeship System Helps Loft Innovate

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The author had the opportunity to experience Loft's VR training device at the company’s facility in Zürich.

Credit: Simon von Niederhäusern, Loft Dynamics
How does a company on the cusp of innovation find highly skilled technical team members? Fabi Riesen, founder and CEO of Loft Dynamics, says his company’s ability to grow comes from the Swiss apprenticeship system. The Swiss embassy in the U.S. summarizes the educational and training system as “Earn...
Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.

Upon his retirement as a non-routine flight operations captain from a fractional operator in 2015, Dr. Veillette had accumulated more than 20,000 hours of flight experience in 240 types of aircraft—including balloons, rotorcraft, sea planes, gliders, war birds, supersonic jets and large commercial transports. He is an adjunct professor at Utah Valley University.

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