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Paul Eremenko | Profile
Profile at a glance
Paul Eremenko is a co-founder and CEO of P-1 AI, which develops agentic AI for complex systems engineering. His career includes senior technology roles at United Technologies and Airbus, leadership positions at DARPA, and service as CEO of Universal Hydrogen from 2020 to 2024. SAIC's 2026 board biography records his aeronautics degrees from MIT and Caltech and a law degree from Georgetown. Dates not stated by sources are left unspecified.
Source verification date: · Current roles, previous leadership roles, education and board affiliations are drawn from SAIC's 2026 director biography; Airbus's 2016 announcement confirms the CTO appointment date. Company aircraft milestones are attributed to Universal Hydrogen, not to Eremenko individually. The sources do not provide several role start and end dates or degree years.
Recorded financing connections
- P-1 AI, Inc.2026-07-29 · Series A · USD 50,000,000
These are recorded participations, not a complete portfolio or performance score.
Names follow their disclosed form. Descriptive English renderings of Chinese names are not verified legal names. Original quotations are shown in their source language.
Experience
His public career spans aerospace engineering, defense technology, corporate research and development, and hydrogen aviation. SAIC also reports that he received the Distinguished Public Service Medal for his work at DARPA.
Career and roles
- SAIC · Director
Current role (as reported in the cited source)
- Eve Holding Inc. · Board member
Current role (as reported in the cited source)
- P-1 AI · Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Currently listed; start date not stated · Leads the company developing agentic AI for complex systems engineering.
- Universal Hydrogen Co. · Chief Executive Officer
2020–2024 · Led the hydrogen-aviation company; SAIC reports that the company flew a fuel-cell-powered passenger aircraft.
- United Technologies Corporation (UTC) · Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Previous role; dates not stated · Senior technology leadership role reported in SAIC’s biography.
- Airbus · Chief Technology Officer
From July 2016; end date not stated · Airbus announced his appointment in 2016; SAIC later listed the role as previous experience.
- DARPA · Program Manager; Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Tactical Technology Office
Previous roles; dates not stated · SAIC’s biography lists these successive responsibilities; dates are not disclosed.
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Undergraduate degree in aeronautics; year not stated.
- California Institute of Technology
Master’s degree in aeronautics; year not stated.
- Georgetown University
Law degree; specific degree title and year not stated.
Public record
- SAIC’s 2026 board biography says Universal Hydrogen flew a fuel-cell-powered passenger aircraft described as the world’s largest; this is a company milestone, not an individual engineering claim.
- SAIC reports that Eremenko received the Distinguished Public Service Medal for his work at DARPA.
Sources
- 1. P-1 AI official website
P-1 AI官网列出Paul Eremenko为团队成员，并介绍公司面向复杂系统工程的AI产品。Original Chinese-language excerpt
- 2. SAIC | Paul Eremenko | Board Member
He is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of P-1 AI, a company focused on developing agentic AI for complex systems engineering.
- 3. Airbus Group appoints Paul Eremenko Chief Technology Officer
appointed Paul Eremenko (36) as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO).