RotorWay International
Executive Bios

40 YEARS AND A FOCUSED VISION
Grant Norwitz
Chairman, Rotorway Holdings Ltd,, Chief Executive Officer, RotorWay International.
Grant started mechanical engineering at Cape Town Technicon, and graduated summa cum laude with an MDT certificate at Wits Technicon. He joined M&D Engineering as a technician and then ADCO where he became lead in the fuel injection and turbo charging group. Mr. Norwitz was a Founder and Executive VP of Rainbow Aviation, which development and testing of various high load parachute systems.

Grant co-founded Electronics & Specialized Peripherals.cc which pioneered business development between South Africa and Eastern Block countries. Grant moved to the United States with his wife, a resident of Seattle in 1997. He served as the marketing director for Bio Preserve Medical, a Seattle biotech and then in1999 founded a Seattle high tech company in the communications arena.

He served in the South African Defense Force in the South West Africa Special Forces. Grant received his MBA from the University of Witwatersrand. Aviation is his passion, and he enjoys most outdoor sports with his wife and two children, Daniel 9, and Alexis, 5.


Bill Adams
Chief Operations Officer, Rotorway International.
Mr. Adams oversees operations at RotorWay’s Flag Ship Factory in Chandler Arizona. He is improving and expanding operations enabling Rotorway to deliver a certified two-seat trainer helicopter to the US market.

Prior to joining the RotorWay team, Bill directed operations for PBD, a land development company, growing the company from one million to over fifty million dollars in their worldwide operation.

Bill learned and polished his skills in operations management for 21 years while serving as Operations Officer for a Special Operations A-Team (Green Beret). He developed, organized, and executed classified projects for the National Command Authority, Department of Defense, and the Department of State in a zero defect environment.

Bill earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Campbell University in North Carolina and has an MBA Webster University in St. Louis Missouri. Bill’s interests include flying, skydiving and raising money for Lupus research through his foundation called the Leap for Lupus Foundation.


Judy Craven
Chief Financial Officer, Rotorway International.
Originally from Montana, Ms. Craven moved to Arizona in 1986 to complete her education at Arizona State University. Judy received a BA in Accounting and her CPA shortly thereafter. Ms. Craven began her career with Ernst and Young where she worked in both audit and tax accounting. In 1992 Ms. Craven expanded into private accounting; employed as a private Controller by Cobb International from 1992-1994. In 1994 she opened her own firm with Rotorway as her initial client. Other clients varied from high net worth individuals and small businesses. From 1997-2001, Judy worked as Controller and Project manager of four Arizona-based golf courses. In 2006, with changes rapidly coming, Rotorway requested that Judy join the team full-time as Chief Financial Officer.

Ms. Craven remains active in the support of Big Brothers Big Sisters, Child Crises Nursery, Habitat for Humanity and the United Way.