NLign Names Andrew Tingley Chief Executive Officer
Experienced aerospace and defense leader to guide NLign through its next phase of growth and expand the impact of its Digital Twin–Driven Asset Intelligence platform.
BLUE ASH, Ohio — September 1, 2026
NLign, a leader in Digital Twin Intelligence for mission-critical assets, today announced the appointment of Andrew Tingley as Chief Executive Officer. Tingley will lead NLign as the company accelerates its growth across the aerospace and defense markets and expands the role its technology plays in connecting manufacturing, inspection, engineering, and sustainment data across the asset lifecycle.
Tingley brings a combination of aerospace and defense industry experience, strategic leadership, and military service to NLign. Prior to joining the company, he served with McKinsey & Company, where his work included helping aerospace and defense organizations address complex operational, manufacturing, supply chain, and strategic challenges. Earlier in his career, Tingley served in the U.S. Navy, giving him firsthand perspective on the importance of readiness, reliability, and effective decision-making in mission-critical environments.
“Andrew joins NLign at an important point in our evolution,” said Tom Sharp, Senior Advisor, Co-Founder and former CEO. “Our customers are increasingly looking for ways to connect the enormous amount of data generated across manufacturing and sustainment and turn it into better, faster decisions. Andrew understands both the operational challenges facing aerospace and defense and what it takes to scale technology businesses that solve those challenges. We believe he is the right leader to take NLign into its next chapter.”
NLign provides organizations with a visual system of operational truth by connecting inspection results, conformance information, manufacturing data, maintenance history, and other operational information directly to digital models of individual assets. By bringing together traditionally disconnected data, NLign helps engineering, quality, manufacturing, and sustainment teams identify risk, accelerate decisions, reduce rework, improve traceability, and increase asset availability.
The appointment comes as aerospace and defense organizations face growing pressure to increase production, improve fleet readiness, address workforce constraints, leverage AI, and extract greater value from their digital engineering investments. NLign is positioned at the intersection of these priorities, extending the value of existing PLM, MES, MRO, ERP, and other enterprise systems by connecting operational data to the asset itself.
“NLign products can deliver tremendous benefits for our customers,” said Tingley. “We are at a time when the aerospace and defense industry needs solutions that can reduce total end-item build times and reduce costs from quality and rework, and NLign stands uniquely positioned to do that. We can bridge the gaps in our customers’ production and sustainment digital threads in a way that stands alone today. I’m excited to join this talented team and scale our value for customers across the industry.”
Tingley’s appointment builds on more than 15 years of NLign collaboration with leading aerospace and defense organizations. The company’s technology has been deployed across aircraft manufacturing and sustainment environments, helping organizations transform fragmented inspection and quality data into actionable intelligence tied directly to the physical asset.
Under Tingley’s leadership, NLign will focus on expanding adoption of its platform, deepening relationships with aerospace and defense OEMs, operators, sustainment organizations, and technology partners, and continuing to advance its Digital Twin–Driven Asset Intelligence capabilities.
“NLign’s opportunity is bigger than simply improving an individual inspection or engineering workflow,” Tingley added. “It is about creating a trusted digital thread across the lifecycle of mission-critical assets so that everyone—from the technician on the floor to the engineering authority to senior leadership—can make decisions from the same operational truth. That translates to more aircraft uptime, greater mission readiness rates, lower costs of poor quality, and faster production rates.”