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Out To Lunch: Home Grown Drones

Grant Morris
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It's New Orleans
Peter Ricchiuti, Charles Easterling and Craig Harvey.

 

While you're doing whatever it is you do on a regular day, right off of the I-10, in New Orleans East,  Charles Easterling'sCrescent Unmanned Systems is manufacturing one of the most advanced drones available.

A little further East at Stennis — now part of the New Orleans East NASA facility — Craig Harvey is Executive Vice President and COO of NVisionSolutions, designing and manufacturing autonomous robots.

In the Pay It Forward segment of the show Peter Ricchiuti has Craig and Charles use their expertise to weigh in on start-up TRUE-See Systems, a digital healthcare company specializing in photos you won't see on Facebook: wounds.

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.

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