Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Parsons Corp.’s Alex Gross
Alex Gross Senior Vice President & Chief Strategist for Defense and Intelligence, Parsons Corp. In 2023, Alex Gross’ team delivered multiple technical innovations, leading to record-breaking business growth. They landed the largest Parsons defense and intelligence contract to date. In November 2023, they demonstrated a disruptive new paradigm for space warfighter training customers described as
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Outside Analytics’ Ben Tarr
Ben Tarr CEO of Outside Analytics, a Division of SMX Ben Tarr’s recent achievement was founding and building Outside Analytics, acquired by SMX in late 2023. Outside Analytics is a software engineering and data analytics partner within the national security space community. “The recognition of our successes and impactful solutions along with our ability to
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
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: SAIC’s David Ray
David Ray Executive Vice President of Space and Intelligence Business Group, SAIC David Ray’s recent achievement was advancing the Command and Control and space integration capabilities of SAIC’s space customers. Ray and his team helped modernize the Space Force’s Ground Based Radar Maintenance and Sustainment Services program and enhance critical missile warning and space domain
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Quantum Space’s Emily Smallwood
Emily Smallwood Vice President of National Security Space, Quantum Space Less than a year into the job, Emily Smallwood spearheaded a substantial capture opportunity, resulting in a collective $170 million-plus across three missions. Renowned for her tenacity, she’s dedicated to unraveling solutions for the intelligence community and helping solve the Defense Department’s most challenging problems.
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: HII Mission Technologies’ Henry Choi
Henry Choi Vice President of Growth and Strategy, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space, HII Mission Technologies Henry Choi leads the growth strategy for HII Mission Technologies to advance space initiatives in cyber, electronic warfare and modeling and simulation to the U.S. Space Force. As space becomes a contested domain, HII is applying its expertise
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Velos’ Jeff Trauberman
Jeff Trauberman Vice President of Strategy, Analysis and Government Engagement, Velos Jeff Trauberman’s biggest 2024 achievement will be ensuring the success of the company’s diverse space clients. He said Velos has a great client mix of large established firms and smaller space ventures, all working to capitalize on space markets rapidly growing and evolving. It’s
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Kratos Space’s Kevin Tobias
Kevin Tobias Director of Product Management, Kratos Space In 2023, Kevin Tobias and his team launched the satellite industry’s first edge native terminal, OpenEdge, an integral part of OpenSpace. The mission is to redefine the decades-old paradigm of proprietary, static, hardware-based satellite terminals with an open, flexible, software-defined approach. Tobias is a tech enthusiast and
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: SpiderOak’s John Moberly
John Moberly Senior Vice President, SpiderOak John Moberly’s recent major achievement was moving from no income from space clients to obtaining five contracts. These contracts offer solutions for the needs of five different organizations, all with significant potential for growth. Why Watch In 2024, Moberly and his team are heavily focused on executing these contracts
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: LMI’s Mark Eddings
Mark Eddings Senior Vice President of Space Market, LMI Mark Eddings’ biggest recent achievement was successfully navigating the subways and crowds in Manhattan with his five kids for an entire week, which he said gave him the momentum to build critical strategic partnerships across U.S. Space Force, intelligence community and commercial space companies. Fun fact
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Geo Owl’s Nate Copeland
Nate Copeland Vice President of Intelligence Services, Geo Owl, LLC Nate Copeland takes great pride in building inclusive team cultures and guiding them to success. This includes driving business growth, ensuring customer satisfaction and supporting each team member’s career development. By understanding his team’s strengths and leveraging them effectively, he ensures mutual success for everyone
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Sev1Tech’s Michael Fry
Michael Fry General Manager of Aerospace Defense Division, Sev1Tech Michael Fry’s biggest recent achievement was leading his team to huge milestones related to connecting space mission partners together for future operational capabilities. This initiative, set to culminate in 2024, involves the seamless synchronization of data and operations from cloud and development environments to active production
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Noblis’ Rick Harrison
Rick Harrison President, Noblis ESI As president of Noblis ESI, part of the Noblis family of companies, Rick Harrison is integral to Noblis’ overall space strategy, growth and solution delivery. Under his leadership, the Noblis team helped protect critical space assets and preserve the United States’ freedom of action in the space domain while continuing
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Altamira Technologies’ Richard Campos
Richard Campos Senior Vice President of Business Development, Altamira Technologies Corp. Richard Campos’ biggest recent achievement was the business development integration of Virginia Systems & Technology into Altamira Technologies. The acquisition allowed Altamira to grow its space ground portfolio and expand into SIGINT. What’s something most people don’t know about him personally? “My Roman Empire
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: The Aerospace Corp.’s Ronald Birk
Ronald Birk Principal Director of Space Enterprise Evolution Directorate, The Aerospace Corp.; President of American Astronautical Society Ronald Birk’s biggest recent achievement was accelerating the deployment of innovative commercial capabilities by building confidence using in-space testbeds and proving grounds. In many cases, there are impacts of the “flight-proven paradox,” where acquisition and integration of innovative
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Raytheon’s Sandy Brown
Sandy Brown Vice President of Mission Solutions & Payloads, Raytheon Sandy Brown’s recent major achievement involves expanding the company’s Mission Solutions and Payloads sector. This growth supports secret and defense projects for the U.S. military and special programs, boosting the company’s ability to tackle big space challenges for its clients. Growing up as an Army
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Northrop Grumman’s Sarah Schellpfeffer
Sarah Schellpfeffer Sector Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Space Systems, Northrop Grumman Sarah Schellpfeffer takes great pride in Northrop Grumman’s advancements in sensing and connectivity, notably in expanding its satellite communications from geostationary to low Earth orbit to meet changing mission requirements. The company has emerged as a leader in LEO systems in
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Muon Space’s Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan Vice President, Muon Space Tracy Morgan’s most significant recent achievement includes growing the Muon Space business and securing key awards. “We are very excited about the growth in 2023 and the projected growth in the coming years,” she said. “Muon Space has really brought together a spectacular team to provide game changing capabilities
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: ASRC Federal’s Steve Padgett
Steve Padgett Vice President of Project/Program Management, Space Operating Group, ASRC Federal Steve Padgett has worked with ASRC Federal’s NASA customer for over 25 years, where he serves as vice president of project and program management. He’s also the senior program director for NASA’s Program Analysis and Control V contract. In his role, he oversees
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: ManTech’s Bill ‘BK’ Kelley
Bill “BK” Kelley Vice President & Division Manager of Air Force/Space Management, ManTech In 2023, ManTech’s Air Force and Space Division took on a significant role in national security space launches for Space Force. BK Kelley’s team was crucial in maintaining the certification of the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket, as well as Blue Origin’s
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: SPA’s Bruce Phillips
Bruce Phillips Senior Vice President of Space & Intelligence Division, Systems Planning & Analysis Bruce Phillips’ most significant achievement since joining the company in September 2022 was collaborating with leadership and staff to expand the Space and Intelligence Division. This growth has been both organic and through the acquisition of recent space companies. SPA is
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: CACI’s Matt Anderson
Matt Anderson Vice President of Space Force & Air Force Client Executive, CACI International Inc. Matt Anderson firmly believes in the power of collaboration and trust between a company and its customers to drive innovation forward. Since joining CACI in 2021 as a client executive, Anderson has been key to growing the company’s work with
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: BlueHalo’s Mary Clum
Mary Clum Sector General Manager & Corporate Executive Vice President, BlueHalo The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities awarded BlueHalo a $1.4 billion contract for the Satellite Communications Augmentation Resource program in 2022. Last September, Mary Clum and her team completed a successful demonstration of the Multi-band Software Defined Antenna tiles that will be deployed
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2024: Axient’s Jay Kovacs
Jay Kovacs Chief Innovation Officer, Axient Last year, Axient created the role of chief innovation officer and appointed Jay Kovacs to this position. His focus is to use Axient’s expertise and capabilities to drive strategic innovation and research and development projects in line with the company’s growth goals. This better positions Axient for the next
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