John Wade

John Wade is Gogo’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. He is responsible for Gogo’s operations, quality control, commercial airline account management and commercial sales.

Wade has more than 30 years of experience in the aviation industry including numerous leadership positions in the avionics and in-flight communications industry. Prior to his current role, he served as the general manager of Gogo’s business aviation division where he built the division into a market leader. Before joining Gogo, John served as the CTO at OnAir and also worked at Tenzing and GEC Marconi on their IFE and IFC products.

John received a First Class B Engineering Honors Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Brighton, U.K.

He is the co-author of two patents and throughout his career has been widely quoted across business publications, as well as chosen to speak at international conferences and conventions.