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ACSF Career Panel Highlights Entrepreneurial Spirit

Entrepreneurs emphasize that safety must be threaded through business

Air Charter Safety Foundation 2025 career panel — Candace Covington, the senior director of aviation for Adobe; Nicole Battjes, CEO and founder of Rainbow Helicopters; and Kolin Jones, an ERAU alumnus who is founder and CEO of Amalfi Jets participated in a student-led career panel during the 2025 Air Charter Safety Foundation Safety Symposium. The moderators included students Julia Dentinger (on right) and Ander Turueno Garcia (not pictured).

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

April 8, 2025

The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) kicked off its annual Safety Symposium on Monday evening with a career panel of three industry entrepreneurs—one who started a corporate flight department, another a Part 135 operation, and a third a charter brokerage—who shared their insights before a packed room of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) students.

ACSF began holding career panels in tandem with the Safety Symposium after it moved its Safety Summit from Ashburn, Virginia, to ERAU's Daytona Beach, Florida campus. Moderated by ERAU students, this year’s panel featured Candace Covington, the senior director of aviation for Adobe; Nicole Battjes, CEO and founder of Rainbow Helicopters; and Kolin Jones, an ERAU alumnus who is founder and CEO of Amalfi Jets. The three drew so many questions from students that the session went 30 minutes beyond its anticipated time.

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