Christoph Busch is the Founder and CEO of Maple Aviation GmbH, an EU award-winning autonomous drone delivery startup focused on transforming medical logistics in the healthcare sector.

Christoph holds a Diplom-Ingenieur in Aerospace Engineering from Technische Universitat Dresden (2008-2014) and was one of Lilium's earliest employees, serving as Head of Testing for over four years.

With deep roots in eVTOL and advanced air mobility from his time at Lilium and Rolls-Royce, Christoph brings rare hands-on aerospace engineering expertise to the drone delivery space.

Under his leadership, Maple Aviation has developed high-precision, collision-resilient drones capable of direct-to-window delivery of medical supplies, and has gained visibility with German state officials and major enterprise partners including SAP.

Maple Aviation serves hospitals and pathology labs across Germany, enabling same-day autonomous transport of medications and lab samples with no infrastructure costs and setup in as little as 72 hours.