About our President

Stanford Oliver was born in Saint Louis, Missouri on 21 April, 1958.  He attended the University of Missouri at Rolla, a State University for Mechanical Engineering.  He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1981.  In 1982, Stan joined the United States Army and was accepted into the Aviation Corps and selected for the first Blackhawk Helicopter course the Army held at Fort Rucker, Alabama.  Believing in continuous education, he went on to receive his M.S. in Business Administration from Boston University in 1992, and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2002.  After retiring from the Army in 2003, Stan took over as President/CEO of DigiFlight Incorporated, where he has turned the company from one of speculation to one of promise.  Stan has been married for 15 years and has three daughters. Stan is an avid reader and believes that anything is possible if the right talent is focused on the challenge.

Stan’s Favorite Books:

• Good to Great by Jim Collins

• The Six Sigma Way by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, and Roland R. Cavanagh

• Strategy Maps, Robert S. Kaplan and David P Norton

• Doing Business by the Good Book, Robert L. Shook and David L. Steward

Stan was also awarded as one of the US Black Engineer’s Top Entrepreneurs of the year for its third annual listing.