TracPlus, the company behind the operational data and insights platform trusted by the world's leading aerial firefighting agencies, today announced the appointment of Todd O'Hara as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 May 2026. John O'Hara, CEO since 2024, will assume the role of President and continue to lead the company's strategic partnerships and senior agency relationships.
The appointment is the conclusion of a six-month leadership transition designed to position the company for its next phase of growth. As Chief Commercial Officer, Todd O'Hara has led TracPlus through its most significant period of expansion, including the onboarding of CAL FIRE and the rollout of the FireFlyte solution that now underpins the company's largest deployments. His appointment reflects a deliberate progression from commercial leadership into business leadership at a moment of accelerating demand across the industry, as fire seasons grow longer, aerial fleets grow larger, and the agencies managing them are asked to account for every dollar and every decision with a precision the industry has never had to deliver before.
Todd O'Hara has been a member of the TracPlus executive team since 2020 and central to building the relationships, product direction, and commercial discipline that define the business today. His career has been built at the intersection of aviation, safety, and mission-critical technology, with prior leadership roles at Spidertracks and Airways New Zealand, and earlier service with the New Zealand Defence Force. A pilot and flight instructor rated across helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and gliders, he brings first-hand operational aviation experience into the leadership of the company.
John O'Hara joined TracPlus as Chairman in 2020 and took on the CEO role in 2024. Under his leadership the company established itself as the trusted operational data partner to the world's leading fire agencies, and built the organisational foundation to deliver at that scale for the long term. As President he will continue to drive the company's most senior agency engagements and strategic partnerships, working alongside Todd and the executive team.
Todd O'Hara says he is proud to be stepping into the role at a moment when the work matters more than ever, and that the opportunity in front of TracPlus is defined by what its customers are being asked to deliver.
"Our customers are protecting communities against fires that are getting bigger, faster, and harder to fight every season, and they are being asked to do it with more accountability than ever before. The opportunity in front of us is to keep raising the standard of what the industry can measure, defend, and improve. The team we have is the best in the world at this work, and I am proud to be leading them into what comes next," says Todd.
John O'Hara says the appointment reflects the strength of the foundation the business now stands on, and the natural progression of the leader who helped build it.
"TracPlus has become the system of record the industry depends on. CAL FIRE runs its dispatch, tracking, and billing reconciliation on our platform. Australia and New Zealand's national fire agencies use it to manage their entire aerial firefighting fleets. That is the foundation we are handing forward, and Todd has been at the centre of building it. This is a natural progression, and the right one. I am looking forward to continuing the work alongside him and the team, focused where I can add the most value for our agency partners," says John.
Mark Vivian, Chair of the Board, says that TracPlus today stands on the strongest foundation in its history, and that Todd O'Hara is the right leader to build on it.
"Under John's leadership, TracPlus has become the trusted operational partner to the agencies fighting the world's most demanding fires. The platform now captures what every contracted aircraft did on every incident and turns that into the data agencies need to run their missions, reconcile their billing, and defend their spending when the questions come. That is a remarkable thing to have built, and it is a privilege to have John continuing in the business as President. Todd has been central to that work alongside him, and the Board has full confidence in his leadership as TracPlus moves into its next phase of growth," says Mark.
About TracPlus
TracPlus provides the operational data layer for aerial firefighting. We capture, structure, and deliver the flight operations data that agencies and operators across 40 countries rely on to understand what their contracted fleets actually did, defend how public money was spent, and make better decisions next season.
CAL FIRE, Australia's national aerial firefighting program, and New Zealand's FENZ run on TracPlus’s mission platform as their system of record. So do hundreds of agencies and operators across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. Around 2,500 wildfire suppression aircraft are managed on our platform. We hold more than a billion flight records, growing by roughly a million every day.
Founded in New Zealand in 2006, TracPlus has spent 20 years getting closer to the people doing the hardest work in fire and building the infrastructure that turns aviation data into operational accountability. As wildfire seasons grow longer and suppression costs face greater scrutiny, that work has never mattered more.
