Tuvoli Names Three Executives to Lead Post-506% Growth Phase

Tuvoli, the digital commerce platform for private aviation, named three senior executives to its leadership team. The company hired a chief of staff and a chief technology officer. It also named a head of fintech partnerships. The moves come as Tuvoli reported $1.2 billion in annual transactions and a 506% revenue surge over three years, earning its second consecutive Inc. 5000 recognition.

"This is a period of significant growth for us," said Greg Johnson, Tuvoli's CEO. "Their collective strengths will drive innovation and scale as we build a global distribution system for private aviation."

Jon Reed, the new chief of staff, brings more than 20 years of experience in sales, operations, commercial strategy, and yield management in private aviation. He worked at NetJets and CitationAir and was part of the founding team at Wheels Up, where he held leadership roles during the company's rapid growth. Reed understands that every trip is highly personal and time-sensitive, requiring close coordination with clients and operators.

"Private aviation is a relationship-driven industry," Reed said. "I've spent my career handling the complexities of delivering exceptional service. Tuvoli's solutions remove friction and improve efficiency."

Roman Cherkasov joins as chief technology officer, with two decades of experience building real-time, high-throughput transaction systems. He was CTO at Paynote, an early-stage payments company, where he built the engineering team and shipped merchant checkout infrastructure covering cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and stablecoin settlement. Earlier, he was vice president of engineering at Kaseya, leading teams behind ten products in security and compliance, including platform tools. At Amazon Web Services, he took a new developer service from zero to public launch. At Morgan Stanley, he was founding engineer of the analytics platform behind a roughly $200 billion corporate treasury portfolio. He began his career building trading-floor systems at JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank.

"I have spent my career building transaction systems where trust is measured in billions of dollars and downtime is not an option," Cherkasov said. "Private aviation deserves that same backbone."

Dushyant Saran, the new head of fintech partnerships, spent nearly a decade at Visa, most recently as senior director and head of global client and partner solutions. He led partnership and product strategy across embedded finance and loyalty, including a modular loyalty platform adopted by three of the top five global airlines and a $100 million revenue pipeline. He also worked on credit-access and cobrand partnerships. Earlier, he held strategy and transformation roles at LPL Financial, Strategy&, Ameriprise Financial, and American Express. Saran has filed patents for autonomous commerce systems that allow AI agents to negotiate pricing and execute transactions independently.

"I've spent my career at the intersection of payments, partnerships, and emerging technology," Saran said. "Tuvoli is building the commerce backbone for private aviation. My job is to make it smarter and more connected."

On September 15-16, Tuvoli, along with the National Air Transportation Association and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, will host the first annual AI Symposium for Business Aviation in Daytona Beach, Florida. The event will include a full-day strategic symposium and an optional half-day workshop.

"The deepening of our bench is rooted in the reality that private aviation is navigating one of the most significant periods of change in its history," Johnson said. "Operators and brokers shouldn't have to navigate it alone."

A Tuvoli-booked flight departs every 11 minutes, the company said.