Meet The Team

Collin Hively is Xelevate’s Mini-Air Boss, an Xelevate Flight Instructor, and the Ground Support Specialist. He ensures that the Facility is safe and secure, assisting in implementing Xelevate safety procedures and risk mitigation processes both before and during flight operations. Understanding the critical role safety plays in meeting successful flight operations as unmanned systems move into the next horizon, Collin proactively builds new policy and procedures to ensure safe flight operations scale as the industry scales forward (including new checklists and the like). When Collin is not overseeing safe flight operations for Xelevate clients, he can be found instructing others on building their flight skills. Before joining the Xelevate team, he served as a stone mason implementing unique designs primarily outdoor in nature. Collin also previously served as an Internet Marketing Manager, where he wore many hats as a web designer, graphic designer, and social media/content marketer. Collin also utilizes these skills to build compelling capability videos that help clients convert sales, leveraging footage clients gain after using Xelevate’s Facility to demonstrate, train, and/or hold events. Collin is a certified FAA Part 107 Commercial Drone Pilot and flies both fixed wing and quadcopters both on site at Xelevate and for off-site flight operations for clients. When he’s not flying the skies, Collin can be seen partaking in his other passions, the outdoors and Mountain Dew.