Cole served 15 years in the Canadian Army as a paratrooper, with operational deployments around the world. In 2018, he retired from the military to launch Pegasus, an aerospace company developing autonomous aircraft and sensor systems to radically transform wildfire and disaster management into intelligence-driven operations through real-time, scalable aerial imagery. Cole finished 1st in his cohort at Draper University in Silicon Valley, is a NASA Technology semi-finalist in 2020, a Creative Destruction Labs alumni and recently finished 1st in Boeing global AI & Autonomy accelerator based in London.