Chris Fitzgerald
Chairman, World Hovercraft Week

Chris Fitzgerald, an Australian-born mechanical engineer, is President of Neoteric Hovercraft, Inc., one of the world's leading and most innovative hovercraft manufacturers. Neoteric's clientele spans 50 countries and includes Disney World, local/national rescue departments, dive teams, gold mines, the US Army Corps of Engineers, oil spill cleanup firms and universitiy environmental and fishery research departments, as well as individual hovercraft enthusiasts and racers.

Fizgerald's credentials include:

• Founder and former President, Hoverclub of America, Inc.
• Founder, North American Hovercraft Manufacturer's Association
• Organizer, World Hovercraft Championship 1989 USA
• Judge, London-produced Junkyard Wars
• Rose Hulman Institute of Technology's first Entrepreneur in Residence
• Co-author, Light Hovercraft Design
• Received Rotary International Foundation Award for worldwide hovercraft study tour.
• Participant in the world's first hovercraft race, Canberra, Australia, 1964
• Service in the Royal Australian Air Force Air Training Corps

Last Modified: August 1, 2002, 10:58 AM CST