Stellar Labs Appoints Vicki Nakata to Lead Business Development and Customer Success

Silicon Valley technology company Stellar Labs, Inc. (“Stellar”) has appointed Vicki Nakata as Vice President of Business Development and Customer Success. In this role, she will oversee the company’s commercialization plans and strategic partnerships including the relationship with Rockwell Collins. She will also manage Stellar’s customer success organization, supporting charter operators and flight departments as they join Stellar’s unified aircraft management platform.

Vicki has over 15 years of experience developing business strategies, launching partnerships and products, and growing online travel businesses. She was a Principal in the Airline practice at Bain & Company and has held senior executive positions at Hawaiian Airlines and Booking.com.

Stellar, in partnership with Rockwell Collins, is developing a next-generation, cloud-based operating platform that will combine the market-leading flight operations planning functionality of ARINCDirectSM Flight Operations System (“FOS”) with Stellar’s global distribution systems and commercial operations technology.

In February 2018, the company launched the Stellar Cloud as the preferred infrastructure environment for FOS and the foundation of the future jointly developed unified platform.

An avid traveler and airplane enthusiast, Vicki received her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and her BA in economics from Amherst College.