Warren Kohm
CEO, Aurex
As CEO of Aurex since early 2025, Warren Kohm’s biggest recent achievement was integrating five companies purchased in 2024 and 2025 into one consistent Aurex platform.
“Our focus is delivering bleeding edge space technology, products (DICES, SPOCBOT and Gamora) along with a new capability via Alpha 2 for U.S. Space Force and other three-letter agencies combined with rapid manufacturing to support our customer base,” Kohm said.
He noted Aurex has locations in all four time zones across the United States.
“Warren is an exceptional leader and CEO who has built a top-notch executive leadership team and a new brand which exemplifies our company’s commitment to solving complex space and missile defense challenges faced by our key federal, defense and commercial customers,” said Nat Fog, partner at Godspeed Capital Management. “With Warren at the helm, Aurex is engineering the edge of possible.”
Why Watch
In 2026, Aurex is heavily committed to developing emerging technology at lower cost and higher production rates to meet immediate customer needs across Golden Dome, Shield, SBI and other programs. Defense and space tech customers are demanding more with less funding, and Aurex has delivered manufacturing facilities to support that demand. The company’s also built and recruited a world-class engineering team working with defense, national intelligence and commercial customers to meet those goals, he said.
Aurex’s SPOCBOT and Gamora products are examples of the delivery model the Pentagon’s looking for, he said. The new Aurex, built beginning in 2024, is grounded in scaling engineering, product development and manufacturing to support faster, more efficient and more nimble delivery to customers in step with the warfighter.
“Aurex is pleased to support the missions of our customers in both commercial space, defense and national intelligence,” Kohm said. “As CEO of Aurex, I have the privilege of being able to experience the fantastic work of our people and the immense gratitude of our customers and warfighters when we are successful. I come to work every day motivated by this mission.”
Fun fact: In his 30s, Kohm ran competitively and, at one point, raced in about 50 track and road events a year. He competed at the Penn Relays twice, medaled twice and saw sprinter Michael Johnson in his prime.