Robert Dingemanse graduated from Delft University of Technology in electrical engineering. He subsequently completed his MBA at Erasmus University with honors, after which he worked at Philips for more than ten years. In 2003, he founded Redesign Partners together with business partners. In a managerial role, he has been involved in setting up companies or transforming existing players in various industries for the past 25 years: design and redesign of business models. He feels like a fish in water in the field that we now call “disruptive technologies”.

In 2008 he founded the company PAL-V Europe NV. This company is now known worldwide as the pioneer that designed the first commercial flying car and will produce and sell it in series. A smart combination of existing technologies makes a more than 100-year-old dream come true. The freedom of driving and flying with one vehicle. Robert Dingemanse, CEO of PAL-V Europe NV, speaks fascinatingly about the challenges involved in setting up and transforming companies under the influence of new technologies and regulations, with PAL-V Europe NV as a very appealing example. He also provides a glimpse into the future of mobility and how flying cars will play a role in it. He also talks about smart innovation, perseverance, creativity and a different way of organizing. He explains how this leads to the realization of a very revolutionary new product category. Presentations that he regularly gives on stages all over the world.

Our Mission is to make air mobility available for everyday use by creating sustainable and innovative air mobility products.

After graduating from Delft University of Technology in electrical engineering and earning an MBA from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Dingemanse started his career at Philips Electronics where he held several executive functions. During this period, he started a series of ventures and launched new products disrupting various fields of business.

Dingemanse founded the company PAL-V International in 2008, based upon the PAL-V flying car concept, co-developed with Delft University and the Dutch Aerospace Laboratories.

The company is now revolutionizing the mobility industry by commercially offering real flying cars, offering seamless door-to-door mobility while utilizing existing infrastructure.

After the commencement of flight testing the PAL-V ONE in 2012, Dingemanse and PAL-V continued with full determination to realize the commercial product: the Liberty. This product is currently in the final stages of certification and almost ready for delivery to customers from around the world. 

Last year the PAL-V Liberty obtained road permissions for Europe and other countries. It is currently in the final certification phase with EASA: compliance demonstration. The PAL-V Liberty is designed to comply with existing regulations, which Dingemanse considered a vital starting point for achieving personal flying mobility. The first PAL-V Liberty flying cars have been produced and are being tested extensively.

The company is currently paving the way for the use of the Liberty flying car in the market by rolling out a network of flight schools and experience centers, and by contracting local sales and maintenance partners across the world.

Making people fly. Or even better: providing them with a car that can fly. Allowing them to drive over the highway, or through the countryside, and switch over to flying through the air whenever they feel like. It is the stuff that dreams are made of.

Our drive is to offer people the most flexible form of mobility and the highest sense of freedom imaginable while enjoying the ride. We dedicated ourselves to safely eliminating the key limitations of a car, small (gyro) plane and helicopter simultaneously. By achieving this goal, we aren't only providing our customers with a means to explore the world from a different view, but we are rewriting history, turning a 100-year-old dream into reality.

We are a specialist in R&D; it’s in our DNA. We always look beyond, for the new. We want to innovate, to evolve, to improve; ourselves as well as the world around us. We want to create a trail that is worth following, on the earth, and in the sky.  We call it the drive to fly.