Team
Our experienced, multi-disciplinary team includes successful strategists, operators, scientists, engineers and designers inspired by our mission and vision for the future of space.
Team
Jeff Rich
Founder, CEO
Lisa Rich
Founder, COO
Henry Lin
Chief Financial Officer
Russell Hannigan
Chief Innovation Officer
Ahmad Al-Hawasli
Chief Technology Officer
Casey Backes
Remote Sensing Data Scientist
Mark Boutwell
Flight Software Engineer
Tyler Browder
Business Development Director for Mission Operations
Nicole Brown
Director of Business Development
Islam Nazmy
Senior GNC Engineer
Allison “Allie” Hannigan
Relationship Manager
Julie Rapp
Office Coordinator
Drew Russ
GNC and Flight Software Engineer
Joshua Roppo
Senior Software Engineer
Adam Rotman
Communications
Joe Schweitzer
Optical Engineer
Derek Vetter
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Dmitry White
Full Stack Developer
Noel Wade
IT Operations DirectorAdvisory Team
Bill Watson
Ed Harris
Brian Hibbeln
Dr. Alan Stern
Space Systems Team
The Xplore Space Systems Team is comprised of high-level professionals who have worked at civilian and government agencies and commercial space companies; collectively, they have decades of on-orbit experience.