Mr. Ivo Boscarol is a pilot, flight instructor and test pilot, 5 times national champion, pioneer of electric aviation and mostly known as the founder and co-owner of the Pipistrel Group companies, designing and producing the most advanced light aircraft in the world, with branches in Slovenia, Italy and China.

As the first private aircraft producer in the Balkans area, he has been contributing to the aviation standards for Microlight class on the global scale since the early eighties. His company claimed many awards such as European Business Award for the most innovative company in EU in 2010 and three consecutive victories at the NASA Challenges in 2007, 2008 and 2011.
Pipistrel aircraft won the World Champion title, accomplished several flights around the world and still hold 11 world records.

Boscarol is a highly recognised entrepreneur both in Slovenia and internationally. He received Readers’ Digest award for the “most trusted businessman” in Slovenia 9 years in a row. The Politico magazine listed him among Top 28 most influential people in the European Union. The USA Kiddie Hawk Air Academy awarded him the title Living Legend of Aviation. He was awarded with the highest FAI award for the contribution to aviation, and the highest national civil award, the Golden order from the President of the republic of Slovenia. The University of Nova Gorica awarded him with golden order and the title of Doctor Honoris Causa for his outstanding scientific and professional achievements.

Boscarol dedicates a great part of his life to making the aviation affordable and environment friendly. For more than 30 years Pipistrel has been the producer of world’s most energy-efficient light aircraft and one of the pioneers of electric propulsion. Ivo as the aircraft concept designer and his team designed more than dozen aircraft and among them the world’s first fully electric 2-seat aircraft, the Taurus Electro in 2007. In 2011 they produced the Taurus G4, world’s first electric 4-seat aircraft, which then brought Pipistrel its third victory at the NASA Challenge.
In 2014 Pipistrel released the first serially produced electric trainer in the world, the Alpha Electro; in 2016 the company co-developed both the world’s first 4-seat hybrid propulsion aircraft and the first hydrogen fuel cells-powered aircraft.
With the world’s first ever type-certification of an electric, emission-free aircraft in 2020, Ivo Boscarol as owner of Pipistrel achieved the third great milestone in aviation. After the piston engine-powered aircraft was type-certified in USA for passenger air transport in 1927 and jet engine aircraft in UK in 1953, Ivo Boscarol opened the door for the commercial use of emission-free electric air transport by certifying the electric propulsion aircraft Velis Electro on 7 June 2020.

In 2022 Boscarol sold the major share of Pipistrel Group companies to USA corporation Textron, in which he continues his vision of emission-free aviation under his role as the President Emeritus of Pipistrel. At the same time, he invests in different hi-tech projects, bio pharmacy, medicine, alternative food production and defence programs, mainly air surveillance and anti-drone protection.
With the largest individual donation in the history of Slovenia, 30 million euros for various large social projects for the public good, in 2022 he also became the biggest and world-famous philanthropist from the world of aviation.

Taja Boscarol was born in 1982. She attended high school in Ajdovščina, and in 2006 she completed art education studies at the Faculty of Education. She founded her own business for graphic and industrial design, arrangement and decoration. In 2012 she was employed at Pipistrel d.o.o. where she performed various tasks from designing and editing websites, design of promotional and printed materials for the company, to PR. In 2023, she joined the family company Boscarol d.o.o.