Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Booz Allen Hamilton’s Chris Bogdan

Chris Bogdan

Executive Vice President & Space Business Leader, Booz Allen Hamilton

Chris Bogdan had a busy 2023 leading $1.7 billion in space business sales, plus collaborating with the company’s venture capital team to invest in space startup Albedo.

He also led the development and execution of Booz Allen’s new space strategy “focused on our role as the premier space data solutions provider and prime integrator of space ground systems and complex space constellations,” he said.

Why Watch

Bogdan’s team is investing internally to build differentiated capabilities, future M&A and venture investment opportunities, and co-development with strategic industry partners to help solve clients’ most pressing space challenges. It’s all part of a plan for continued growth of the space business.

Bogdan embraces the idea that great leaders are made, not born.

“You must continually work hard at becoming a better leader,” he said. “Don’t be afraid of failure. It is the best teacher in the world.”

Earlier in his career, he was a goalie on the Air Force Academy Ice Hockey Team as a walk-on and likes to brag that he still has all his teeth. As an Air Force test pilot, he flew over 30 different aircraft types.

See the entire Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024 list here.