Ami Patel

I joined Elite RF in 2018 to help scale what the founders had been building since 2014. The company was founded by Timavicola, Phil Astepine, and my father, who had been doing R&D and product development. When I came on board, that's when we really grew Elite - we built out a sales team and started taking our R&D work and creating actual products from it. Now we're high volume and operating globally. Elite RF is an RF tech company that works in the defense sector. We take RF energy, radio frequency energy that's all around us, and use it for different applications in military aerospace, quantum computing, and other areas. It's very high power, basically a power source, and our engineers collaborate with other engineers to create solutions. We're one of the vendors helping produce the Golden Dome. My role focuses on the business side - I handle all of the HR, finance, and I help with a lot of the marketing and strategic growth of the company. Banking relationships and funding are really primary areas where my expertise comes in. I'm a strategic growth person. Beyond Elite RF, I'm also launching an AI real estate app called Atari in August 2025 that I've been working on for the last year. I'm currently in the process of receiving funds for that. Right now at Elite, we're scaling and setting up systems to make everything very automatic. I completed my Executive MBA from Kellogg Northwestern in 2025.