Sep 10, 2026 · 37 min · 13 segments
Grant Baldwin joins us in the studio as we discuss drones in filmmaking, search and rescue, and beyond! We sit down with Linda Montgomery to explore the rapid growth and strategic vision of Zenatech…
Linda MontgomeryGuest
Mark MastertonHost
Can we take things back slightly to the beginning of the Zenotech story and how things started in 2017, 2018, and how they got to going public on Nasdaq? What was going on before then?
The company was primarily a software, had a number of different software brands.
They were trying to track male and female hemp plants and doing this work in Ireland and wanted, they tried to incorporate a drone to help them do that as far as part of supply chain management tracking, you know.
So it would have been our, Sean Passley, our founder and Simon Henry, who's our European business development leader.
And they were – realized how difficult it was to set up a drone and organize that drone to be able to do that work.
Why don't we develop our own drones? And hence we've had – and hence the idea to become a drone company.
And I guess we've been working on solutions – working on crafting and refining our drone solutions since then.
And now that drone has become the focus of the company, in particular drone as a service, this is a relatively new concept, but I mean, we can liken it to like software as a service, Amazon web services, for example, but how, how does, what is drone as a service, if you could put it in a nutshell?
So drone as a service was the concept that Sean Passley, our CEO, had I think a number of years ago.
So he had the clarity of vision to know that this was going to be an important need and So it really it really was him.
And and then, you know, we're growing drone as a service by acquiring land survey engineering companies just as a first first service that we're we're starting off with.
It seems like every public announcement there's a brand new company that Zenotech has acquired.
Can we take things back slightly to the beginning of the Zenotech story and how things started in 2017, 2018, and how they got to going public on Nasdaq? What was going on before then?
The company was primarily a software, had a number of different software brands.
They were trying to track male and female hemp plants and doing this work in Ireland and wanted, they tried to incorporate a drone to help them do that as far as part of supply chain management tracking, you know.
So it would have been our, Sean Passley, our founder and Simon Henry, who's our European business development leader.
And they were – realized how difficult it was to set up a drone and organize that drone to be able to do that work.
Why don't we develop our own drones? And hence we've had – and hence the idea to become a drone company.
And I guess we've been working on solutions – working on crafting and refining our drone solutions since then.
And now that drone has become the focus of the company, in particular drone as a service, this is a relatively new concept, but I mean, we can liken it to like software as a service, Amazon web services, for example, but how, how does, what is drone as a service, if you could put it in a nutshell?
So drone as a service was the concept that Sean Passley, our CEO, had I think a number of years ago.
So he had the clarity of vision to know that this was going to be an important need and So it really it really was him.
And and then, you know, we're growing drone as a service by acquiring land survey engineering companies just as a first first service that we're we're starting off with.
It seems like every public announcement there's a brand new company that Zenotech has acquired.
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