About Us
Why Choose Us
At Aero NextGen, we partner with top-tier, vetted technology providers to ensure you get the right solution the first time. Our deep MRO expertise enables us to deliver tailored, high-impact results with full accountability. We act as your trusted advisor—solving challenges with precision, speed, and sustainable performance in mind.
Meet Our Founder
Monica Badra, founder of Aero Next Gen, is a dynamic leader with deep expertise in aerospace, finance, strategy, and tech. With experience at Bombardier and AJW, she led large business transformations driving growth, profit and company culture. Monica brings a strong background in business development, data strategy, process optimization, customer experience, M&A, and innovation.
She is also a serial entrepreneur, and Strategic Advisor to startup firms in gen-AI, blockchain, robotics, and more. Her leadership mantra—“Seek a never-ending uphill climb”—reflects her commitment to excellence.
Her mission is to disrupt the status quo and optimize how we did things yesterday.
“Seek a never -ending uphill climb”
— MB
Live with Open Skies Media
About This Podcast
In this episode of Open Skies, host Chris Glass welcomes Monica Badra, founder of Aero Next Gen, a trailblazing tech broker bringing digital transformation to the aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) space. With a unique background in finance and deep hands-on experience in aerospace, Monica has become the go-to matchmaker connecting legacy aviation problems with next-gen tech solutions.
She shares how her company bridges the gap between overwhelmed MRO executives and tech providers—many of whom don’t even come from aviation. Monica explains how dirty data, siloed systems, and decades-old ERPs are holding companies back, and how automation, AI, and tools like co-pilot-style analytics are helping the industry catch up to the modern world.
This is a must-listen for MRO leaders, aviation execs, tech startups, and anyone wondering why it still takes 12 weeks to make a decision that should take 12 minutes.
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Person operating machinery with article title "Bringing Vertical Integration to the Aerospace Industry"
Person interacting with digital interface representing AI/ML in aviation maintenance tracking and predictive maintenance.
Partial logo of Aero NextGen and text about an article in The Globe and Mail focusing on aviation MRO innovation.
Group of people in business attire at aviation trade show in front of AJW booth
Conference badge showing Monica Badra as a speaker at Aviation TechWeek in Munich, discussing digital transformation in MRO.
A business card with images of a man and woman, accompanied by text about a partnership between SmartSky Networks and Aero NextGen for digital solutions in MROs.
Interior of a large industrial workshop with machinery and workstations.
Press release from SmartSky about partnering to improve MRO workflows, with smartphone displaying related content.
Digital transformation presentation by Aero NextGen and AJW Technique, featuring aerospace transformers, displayed on a screen with blue background.
