Leadership Team
MW AIRLIFT™ is founded and led by Warren Gonsalves, with advisory leadership chaired by Malcolm Robinson. Contact [email protected] for a direct introduction.
Warren Gonsalves
Warren Gonsalves is the Founder & CEO of MW AIRLIFT™ (M.W. Energy Logistics LLC), a North Carolina drone company delivering commercial inspection, last-mile logistics, and IoT monitoring grounded in accurate, accountable data. He spent more than fifteen years leading business intelligence and data-governance transformation across Fortune 500 leaders in global networking, data infrastructure, and biopharmaceuticals.
Warren’s love of aviation runs deeper than the drone industry — he holds an FAA student pilot certificate and trains at the controls of single-engine airplanes, working toward his private pilot certificate. The airmanship earned in manned flight — airspace discipline, weather judgment, checklist rigor — shapes how MW AIRLIFT™ flies every mission. An FAA Part 107–certified pilot, he founded MW AIRLIFT™ as the drone industry matured — regulation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and aviation technology opening new possibilities in unmanned flight — and recognized that the same discipline could bring those capabilities to the communities that stand to gain the most, including rural North Carolina.
His commitment to aviation extends into the community as well, where he serves as President of the Heart of Carolina Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., continuing their legacy, advancing STEM mentorship, and inspiring the next generation of aviators. That same leadership has earned recognition beyond the company — he is a HITEC Emerging Executive Fellow and a recipient of a City of Raleigh Excellence Award (2025).
Malcolm Robinson
Malcolm Robinson (Ret.) serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of MW AIRLIFT™ (M.W. Energy Logistics LLC) — a company that carries his initial in its name and his discipline in its operations. He brings more than four decades of supply chain, materials management, and logistics leadership across the international energy sector, the very discipline on which the company was built.
The core of that career was spent with Texaco and Chevron, in senior materials and supply chain roles on some of the energy industry’s largest capital projects — culminating at Angola LNG, a multibillion-dollar megaproject, where he directed materials operations from construction through commissioning as the single point of contact for all project supply chain matters.
That record is the foundation of MW AIRLIFT™. Getting critical assets where they are needed — on time, accounted for, under real pressure in hard places — is the same problem the company now solves with technology, from drone logistics and inspection to IoT cold-chain monitoring and a disciplined, sequenced path into federal work.
His role today is advisory: the documentation rigor, chain-of-custody discipline, and operational accountability of his megaproject career set the standard MW AIRLIFT™ holds itself to on every mission. Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French, his career was spent making complex operations work across borders and cultures — and he lends that same steady, proven counsel to the company’s next chapter.
Three Specialist Seats Open
MW AIRLIFT™ is building a specialist advisory board to guide its next phase of growth. Three seats are open for advisors with expertise in:
- Federal contracting and 8(a) program operations
- ECSU UAS faculty or UAS traffic-management / drone regulatory experience
- Rural healthcare or NC DHHS leadership
Interested? Contact [email protected].