Meet the Team!



Leadership team



T.A. Pawlak III



Founder / Chief Executive Officer



Born in Buffalo, NY, Mr. Pawlak had studied at the University at Buffalo (Business Ops Mgt) and graduated from Medaille University (dept. of business management). ​



rafael spears



Co Founder / Chief Operations Officer



An aerospace business professional with an entrepreneurial assertiveness who brings over 26 years of profitably managing technology companies and developing high performance cross functional teams. ​



Andy weir



CoFounder / Director Launch Vehicles



Andrew was born and raised in Austin, Texas. In 2014, he received his degree in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.



alexander taleb



Chief Technology Officer



Alexander is an Aerospace Engineering graduate of Georgia Tech (2014) who brings a wealth of rocket and spacecraft design experience from many different companies.​



lt. gen. brian t kelly



Advisory Board Member



The Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, HQ at U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, VA. Serving as the senior Air Force officer responsible for plans and policies covering all life cycles of military/civilian personnel management.



Michael j. listner



Advisory Board Member



Attorney and Advisor. Subject matter expert in space law, space policy, lawfare/hybrid warfare strategy and outer space security. Author and Publisher of The Précis.​



Scott H. Stalker
USSF (retired)



Advisory Board Member



Dr. Emad AMin, Ph.D.



SR. CFD Engineer



Dr. Sunil Badwe, Ph.D.



Chief Metallurgist



William schoenfeld



Chief Flight Systems Engineer



dr. vishal acharya, Ph.d.



Principal Propulsion Engineer



David schafir



Structural Design Engineer



Steven Balthazor



Chief Financial Officer



Cody Larochelle



Chief Project Officer



dr. hua ye, ph.d.



Director Structures/Thermals



Dr. James Chen



Chief Analytics Engineer



Peter Uth



Principal G&NC Engineer



noah rhys



EVP of Propulsion



Greg Knutson
US Navy (retired)



Advisory Board Member



oren kornberg



Thermal Fluids Engineer



Jon Little



Chief Security Officer



Dr. STeve J. Harvey P.HD



Advisory Board



Megan Garrett



SR. Propulsion Engineer



Col. Mike h. morgan
USAF (retired)



Dir. Gov Business Relations



Michelle Burris



Dir. Legal Compliance



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