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Derek Idemoto is a long-time Cisco Systems executive currently serving as the company’s senior vice president of corporate development and Cisco investments. He optimizes external innovation, putting him at the forefront of the company’s business growth efforts. His contributions were instrumental in the closing of more than 30 deals valued at over $15 billion, including […]
Matt Garratt serves as the managing partner of Salesforce Ventures, the global strategic venture arm of Salesforce with more than 275 active portfolio companies across 17 countries. Garratt has completed more than 100 Salesforce investments in enterprise software-as-a-service companies such as Automation Anywhere, Snowflake, Zoom, Twilio, Anaplan, Docusign, Gainsight, Mulesoft and nCino, according to his […]
Brian Schettler is the managing director of Boeing's HorizonX venture fund. HorizonX has teams dedicated to identifying startups developing revolutionary technologies and alternative approaches to traditional business opportunities. Schettler's team focuses on pursuing opportunities to invest in startup companies with discriminating and disruptive technologies for next-generation applications, Boeing said. He has more than 17 years […]
Shea Ferring serves as the vice president of mission assurance at Firefly Aerospace, an Austin, Texas-based company that develops small and medium-sized launch vehicles. With a career spanning over 25 years, he has gained experience in the design, integration, test, and leadership of space systems. Ferring was promoted as mission assurance VP after a nearly […]
John Quinn is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Exos Aerospace, a developer of reusable launch systems based in Greenville, Texas. Before taking on the role of CEO, Quinn was the company’s chief operating officer for six years. As COO, he played a key role in the development of hypersonic reusable launch vehicles as […]
Michael VanWoerkom is the founder and president of ExoTerra Resource, an entrepreneurship company whose stated goal is to reduce the cost of space exploration through innovative space infrastructure systems. The company grew on the backs of eight engineers with specialties in system design, mechanical design, stress analysis, electrical propulsion, mission analysis and thermal protection systems, […]
Blake Larson serves as corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman‘s space systems sector, which provides space and launch systems to national security, civil and commercial customers. Northrop’s space systems business unit offers launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; satellites, spacecraft and related components; and payload and ground systems. Larson is responsible for the […]
As executive vice president of Sierra Nevada Corporation's space systems group Janet Kavandi is in charge of space programs such as the Dream Chaser spaceplane. The Dream Chaser, a winged supply vehicle capable of landing on a commercial runway, is under contract to deliver supplies to the International Space Station starting 2021, SNC said. Kavandi […]
Megan Fitzgerald is the senior vice president of space programs delivery at Maxar Technologies, a space technology company that specializes in manufacturing communication, Earth observation, radar and satellite products and services. Fitzgerald joined Maxar in 2007 through its Space Systems Loral subsidiary and has since served as senior vice president of program management, vice president […]
Jim Chilton, a 2017 Wash100 winner, is the senior vice president of the space and launch division of Boeing's defense, space and security business unit, a position he had held since April 2018. Chilton took on the role during a period of operation restructuring aimed at focusing on important markets and meeting customer needs faster, […]
