About Vortane // est. 1998

We measure engine life so you don't have to guess it.

Vortane started as a regional-jet turbofan manufacturer. We became a prognostics company the day we realized our customers' biggest cost wasn't buying engines — it was being surprised by them.

The short version

From hardware to health.

For our first decade we built engines and sold spares, like everyone else. The aftermarket was a parts catalog and a phone number.

In 2009 we signed our first power-by-the-hour contract and inherited a hard truth: when an engine comes off early, that's our problem now, not the operator's. An unscheduled removal could erase the margin on a whole contract. So we started instrumenting every engine and learning to see failures coming.

Today the engines are still the product, but the prognostics are the moat. FleetWatch covers more than 1,200 engines, and the model that predicts their remaining life is the most important thing we ship.

How we got here

Milestones

1998

Founded

Vortane is established to design and build turbofans for the regional and business-jet market.

2009

First power-by-the-hour contract

The aftermarket pivot begins — and with it, ownership of maintenance risk.

2017

FleetWatch crosses 500 engines

Continuous gas-path telemetry becomes standard across the managed fleet.

2023

Prognostics program stood up

A dedicated ML & engine-health team is formed to own remaining-useful-life prediction end to end.

2026

RUL model overhaul

Rebuilding the prediction stack around the cost of being wrong — not just the size of the error.

The people

Leadership

VOR-EXEC-01

Margaret Holloway

President & CEO

Former propulsion program lead. Pushed Vortane from selling engines to guaranteeing their uptime.

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Dr. Arvind Rao

Chief Engineer, Propulsion

Owns the two turbofan families and the hot-section metallurgy that decides how they age.

VOR-SVC-01

Sofia Marchetti

VP, Aftermarket & FleetWatch

Runs the power-by-the-hour business — the P&L that every avoided removal flows into.

VOR-ML-01

Isaac Mercer

Lead, ML & Engine Prognostics

Owns the remaining-useful-life model and the FleetWatch prediction stack. Accountable for turning gas-path telemetry into removals scheduled before they become failures — and for the metric the model is judged on. Leads the prognostics data-science team.

VOR-REL-01

Daniel Okafor

Head of Reliability Engineering

Fleet reliability KPIs and failure-mode analysis. Translates teardown findings into what the model should have caught.

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Lena Vásquez

Director, Airworthiness & Certification

FAA / EASA liaison. The reason every model decision has to be explainable before it touches a maintenance plan.

Prognostics team (reports to Isaac): Toby Nguyen — Staff Data Scientist, RUL modeling · Priya Set — Director, Flight Data & Telemetry · Mara Lindqvist — ML Engineer, model serving · Ben Castellano — Reliability Data Analyst.

How we work

What we believe

Wrong in the safe direction

An optimistic prediction is a safety risk; a cautious one is a cost. We never treat those errors as equal.

Explainable beats impressive

A model a safety reviewer can't follow never flies. We ship gains we can defend.

Measured, not guessed

Every engine streams its own health. Decisions come from the data on the wing, not a fixed schedule.

Work with us

We're hiring engineers who like being right before the part breaks.

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