Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Alejandro Gutierrez
Leads company direction, partnerships, client strategy, and mission design.
About IE Drone Collective
Local leadership. Professional aerial execution.
An Inland Empire agency combining client strategy, flight planning, visual capture, post-production, and community-rooted experience through one coordinated team.
Leadership
Accountability starts with the founders.
IE Drone Collective is led by Alejandro Gutierrez and Jorge Zataran. Together they connect project strategy and client communication with the field coordination required to execute dependable aerial work.
Co-Founder & VP of Operations
Jorge Zataran
Leads field coordination, operating workflows, and execution from planning through delivery.
What “collective” means
A scalable team, managed through one clear project lead.
The agency model lets a project bring together the right combination of planning, field coordination, aerial capture, editing, education, and qualified specialty partners when the scope calls for them.
The client does not have to manage separate freelancers or translate the brief repeatedly. IE Drone Collective coordinates the assignment and maintains one standard for communication and delivery.
Operating principles
Professionalism shows up in the details.
The drone is a tool. The value comes from defining the right objective and managing the work well.
Useful objective
We start with what the client needs to market, document, compare, or communicate.
Disciplined planning
Airspace, access, weather, safety, timing, and capture quality shape every mission.
Organized delivery
Files arrive clearly named and prepared for the way the client intends to use them.
Experience with purpose
Our foundation includes building access to drone technology.
The founders’ early work included teaching youth how to fly and developing a hands-on drone pilot program in the High Desert. That experience still shapes how the agency explains technical work, leads teams, and creates practical opportunities.
Have a project in mind?
Let’s plan the right aerial approach.
Tell us what you need captured, where the site is, and how the deliverables will be used.
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