Michael Dyment

Michael J. Dyment is the Founder and Managing Partner of NEXA Capital Partners, a Washington, DC–based boutique investment banking and financial-advisory firm serving the aerospace, transportation, logistics, and homeland-security sectors. He brings roughly 35 years of industry experience and is described as a trusted advisor to institutional investors and to top management across the aerospace, transportation, and finance sectors. Over his career he held officer, principal, senior managing partner, and/or managing director positions in the aerospace and transportation practices of A.T. Kearney, Booz Allen & Hamilton, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and Arthur Andersen, and has also worked with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

Dyment's advisory track record includes serving as principal advisor to ITT on its 2007 $1.85 billion ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) award from the FAA — a foundational NextGen air-traffic-modernization program — and acting as a senior advisor to multiple FAA administrators. His client work has spanned major aerospace and aviation names including Boeing, Embraer, Rolls-Royce, American Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, and easyJet, with expertise centered on corporate finance, business strategy, enterprise value dynamics, and value creation.

Since 2018, Dyment has directed NEXA Capital and its subsidiaries — NEXA Advisors and UAM Geomatics — into a heavy focus on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), financing and analyzing the infrastructure needed to make eVTOL and urban air mobility commercially viable. He is co-author of NEXA's landmark UAM/AAM studies and co-creator of the Advanced Air Mobility Reality Index (ARI), an industry-standard tool that rates eVTOL developers on funding, team, technology readiness, certification progress, and production readiness. He speaks widely on aerospace and AAM finance and is regularly sought out by media on these topics.

Dyment holds a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a B.Sc. in Engineering (Geodesy and Geomatics) from the University of New Brunswick.

• Focuses on aerospace, advanced air mobility, transportation, logistics, and homeland-security ventures and infrastructure — both financing companies and structuring the capital behind large infrastructure buildouts.
• Invests in and finances early-stage AAM infrastructure: NEXA "identifies and finances early-stage AAM infrastructure," assessing the viability and financial strength of different markets for AAM.
• Emphasizes that the AAM opportunity is systemic, not just aircraft: in his words, "Advanced Air Mobility will only become profitable and safe when ground infrastructure and air traffic systems are built alongside aircraft certification."
• Data- and diligence-driven: co-developed the AAM Reality Index, which scores companies on funding received, leadership team, technology readiness, certification progress, and production readiness — a good proxy for what he weighs when evaluating a company.
• Favors public-private capital structures ("Public-Private Partnerships," "Leveraged Public/Private Capital Investment Funds/PPCIFs") and deal structuring for complex project-finance challenges, reflecting his investment-banking rather than pure-angel orientation.
• Views AAM as a trillion-dollar addressable market: UAM Geomatics analyzed the AAM business case for the world's 84 largest cities and forecasts operator revenue exceeding $210 billion over two decades across 62 U.S. metros.