Jen Boyer

Throughout his career, Pacific Gas & Electric SMS program manager and 30-year pilot Mike Kunkel watched the industry’s relationship with safety evolve from informal norms and individual accountability to structured SMS frameworks and, more recently, how organizational culture shapes an organization’s safety.

The Vertical MRO Podcast dropped its 100th episode this week, part one of an exclusive interview with The Flying Bulls’ compliance and safety manager, Anthony Hill, and head of national design organization, Werner Horvath.

Published on: May 22, 2026 Estimated reading time 15 minutes, 58 seconds. Yet his career didn’t begin with a calculated ambition toward this goal. It is simply the result of a man constitutionally incapable of turning down what he considers “a good adventure.” Martin established a self-described “overdeveloped sense of adventure” early in life. He solo trekked the Himalayas in Nepal the winter he turned 18.