Krista Covey - Finance Executive, Entrepreneur & International Business Innovation Leader
First Flight Venture Center (First Flight), North Carolina’s premier science-focused startup incubator, announced that its Board of Directors has selected Krista Marie Covey as the new First Flight President, effective May 18 th , 2020.
Even in the midst of the current daunting health and economic crisis, First Flight is looking ahead to build upon its vision and infrastructure to support the next generation of scientist inventors and entrepreneurs. Krista’s depth of experience in supporting the growth of early stage companies at award-winning innovation hubs in Texas and Florida, combined with an extensive background in banking and finance creates the perfect storm to launch new initiatives and programmatic breakthroughs for support to early stage companies.