These additions come during a period of significant growth for Tuvoli, which now facilitates more than $1.2 billion in annual transactions for the private aviation industry's leading operators and brokers.
Tuvoli, a digital commerce platform powering private aviation, has made three additions to its leadership team. Adding deep and varied expertise accumulated across decades of combined experience are Jon Reed who will serve as chief of staff, Roman Cherkasov as chief technology officer and Dushyant Saran as head of fintech partnerships.
These additions come during a period of significant growth for Tuvoli, which now facilitates more than $1.2 billion in annual transactions for the private aviation industry's leading operators and brokers.
“Each of these remarkable leaders bring exceptional expertise and a proven track record of success that will further propel the innovations we continue to bring to market,” comments Greg Johnson, CEO of Tuvoli. “Their collective strengths will help drive the innovation, scale and collaboration needed as we deliver a truly global distribution system to the private aviation industry.”
Jon Reed joins Tuvoli as chief of staff, bringing more than 20 years of experience across sales, operations, commercial strategy and yield management in private aviation. A veteran of NetJets and CitationAir, Jon Reed was also part of the founding team at Wheels Up, where he held leadership roles supporting the company's rapid growth.
He comes to Tuvoli with a deep understanding of what it takes to deliver in an industry where every trip is highly personal, time-sensitive and dependent on close coordination across clients, internal teams, operators and partners. Bringing a commercial operator's perspective, shaped by the balance of client trust, sound decision-making and disciplined execution, he will work alongside the leadership team to drive collaborations among all stakeholders and their respective teams to advance the company's strategic priorities and support its next phase of growth.
“While technology is at our core, private aviation is a relationship-driven industry. I've heard Greg Johnson speak at industry events for many years, and I've seen the respect people have for his perspective, the team he has assembled and the work Tuvoli is doing,” says Reed. “I've spent my career navigating the complexities of delivering exceptional service in private aviation, and I gravitated toward contributing to Tuvoli's solutions, removing unnecessary friction, improving efficiency and connecting the industry in new ways.”
Roman Cherkasov joins Tuvoli as chief technology officer and brings more than two decades of experience developing the real-time, high-throughput transaction systems that align directly with the seamless payment capabilities valued by Tuvoli's clients.
He joins from Paynote, an early-stage payments company, where, as CTO, he built the engineering organisation from the ground up and shipped merchant checkout infrastructure spanning cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay and stablecoin settlement.
Cherkasov also served as vice president of engineering at Kaseya, leading teams behind 10 products across security, compliance and platform, processing billions of events per month at 99.99 per cent uptime.
Earlier, at Amazon Web Services, he took a new developer service from zero to public launch, and at Morgan Stanley he was founding engineer of the analytics platform behind a roughly $200 billion corporate treasury portfolio. He began his career building trading-floor systems at JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank.
“I have spent my career building transaction systems where trust is measured in billions of dollars and downtime is not an option,” says Cherkasov. “Private aviation deserves that same backbone, and Tuvoli is the company building it. The chance to reshape how an entire industry transacts is exceptionally rare, and that is exactly why I am here.”
Dushyant Saran joins Tuvoli as head of fintech partnerships, where he will expand strategic relationships across the fintech ecosystem, spanning payment rails, card networks, banking-as-a-service and embedded finance, and help drive the integration of AI-powered capabilities throughout the platform.
Saran joins Tuvoli following nearly a decade at Visa, most recently as senior director and head of global client and partner solutions, where he led partnership and product strategy across embedded finance, loyalty and data capabilities. His portfolio included a modular loyalty platform adopted by three of the top five global airlines and a $100 million revenue pipeline, as well as credit-access and co-brand partnerships. Earlier at Visa, he served on the global cross-border leadership team, led post-merger integration of Visa Inc. and Visa Europe, and drove multimillion-dollar re-engineering, process and cost-optimisation initiatives across the enterprise. Over his career, he has driven more than $500 million in impact through product innovation, strategic partnerships and operational transformation.
Saran has also been at the forefront of emerging commerce infrastructure: he invented and filed patents for autonomous commerce systems that allow AI agents to negotiate pricing and execute transactions independently. This work is foundational to agentic commerce, where AI agents transact autonomously on behalf of buyers and sellers. Before Visa, he held strategy and transformation roles at LPL Financial, Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company), Ameriprise Financial and American Express.
“I've spent my career at the intersection of payments, partnerships and emerging technology, and I grew up around aviation, so this role brings two lifelong threads together. Every industry eventually needs a commerce backbone, and Tuvoli is building the one for private aviation,” says Saran. “My job is to make it smarter and more connected, bringing the best of the fintech ecosystem to our operators and brokers, and positioning the platform for agentic commerce, where intelligent agents help transact the trip end to end.”
