About Us
Management Team
DigiFlite's leadership team brings together technology industry veterans, each having extensive experience successfully growing and managing companies.
Lew Hollerbach
Founder and President
Lew is a 25-year veteran in the information technology and training development fields. He has experience in project and business management, software design and development, publishing and writing, and education and training – in both domestic and international settings. He has also been a software engineer, project leader, development manager, and industry analyst, working on projects ranging from interactive multimedia training to market strategy and positioning for Fortune 1000 clients.
Earlier in his career, Lew published computer-based training courses, six books, and numerous articles on technology and other topics, both here and abroad. As computers became faster, smaller, and more versatile, Lew became slower, bigger, and more versatile. During the '90s, he founded and ran an educational software company that developed CD-ROM-based products for leading US textbook publishers.
He is also an instrument-rated private pilot, and brings to DigiFlite a love of flying and a strong interest in, and extensive experience with, education and technology.
George Peabody
Co-founder, Director of Business Development
George has over 20 years' experience in information technologies. From sales to software development management, from entrepreneur to product manager within a Fortune 500 company, George has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience. Most recently, he was a Vice President at Boston's Aberdeen Group, where he led a group of 25 consultants and analysts providing research and market positioning services to Global 2000 firms as well as startups.
Prior to Aberdeen, he founded an ISP he later sold to a regional telecommunications company. His companies have provided networking, fax-on-demand and custom software development.
George is active in civic and religious organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Accelerated Cure Project, an organization dedicated to finding the cure for Multiple Sclerosis. He is also a Certified Professional Co-active Coach.
George is a student pilot. When he isn't working or playing with aviation, he can be found climbing trees or with his wife Nancy and teenage daughters Anna and Katie.
Richard Harrison
Chief Architect
Richard brings to DigiFlite 25 years of experience in creating software and a proven track record of using his insight and understanding of technology to create systems that were previously thought too difficult to build. From his years working in the flight simulation industry at Hughes-Rediffusion, Singer-Link, and Thales, and in radar and aircraft systems simulation at Racal, Richard has a vision of and deep belief in the training value of the synthetic environment – in all shapes and sizes.
Richard was directly involved with Air France’s Chief B737 Instructor designing the Instructional Training System. His other experience includes building computer-based training and distributed fault-tolerant application servers. He was also a consultant simulation advisor on the "Birds of Prey" game published by Electronics Arts.
Richard has hundreds of hours of PIC time on B737, A320, B747, Tornado F2, and BaE Hawk Mk66, all on simulators, and has flown underneath the Eiffel tower many times. There was even a short-lived period as a student in a Cessna 152. When he isn’t working, Richard will be found with his wife and children, sometimes converting an old barn into a new home, and sailing or cycling at other times.
