Ryan Pote

Ryan Pote is a twelve-year veteran Navy helicopter pilot who was part of a joint interagency special operations task force deployed throughout Central and South America combating drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations. After being medically separated from the Navy, he investigated prototype aircraft development programs for six years with the Department of Defense. Before his time in the Navy, he lived and worked in Hawaii as a scuba diving instructor and a lab assistant conducting microbiological research for Shell Oil. He has a master's degree in history and lives with his wife and kids in Maine.