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.