We’ve spent the past two decades making the impossible, possible
Our team is made up of seasoned leaders and entrepreneurs from the worlds of aerospace, nuclear, and tech.
Our team
Ben Kellie
CEOBen joined SpaceX in early 2012 as a Responsible Engineer helping to design, build, test, and operate the Vandenberg SLC-4E West Coast launch site. He served as Lead Engineer for the inaugural flight.
From there, he pivoted over to Recovery and helped lead the development of the landing barges from first steel in the shipyard through multiple missions at sea.
He then founded “The Launch Company,” which developed launch sites for New Space rocket companies and bootstrapped hardware to orbit. He successfully exited that company to Voyager Space in 2021.
Paul Keutelian
CTOPaul is an experienced aerospace and nuclear systems engineer and entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in high-stakes production hardware development.
He was an early SpaceX Responsible Engineer at Vandenberg with ownership over four high-energy compressible, incompressible, and hazardous fluid systems at the plant scale.
He then served as a lead control room operator and trainer and as a point engineer on a multi-billion-dollar launch program, where he navigated highly regulated, precision-driven environments with government customers.
He was previously the technical co-founder and COO of Radiant Industries, where he led the development of the world’s first portable 1.2 MWe microreactor.
Mark Lambert
CFOMark is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive who has over 17 years of experience in high-growth startups, financial management, regulatory compliance, and venture capital.
He was previously the founder and CEO of a B2B SaaS platform specializing in regulatory compliance and financial accounting for highly regulated industries, which processed over a billion dollars annually in financial transactions.
He is also Chair of the Tech Investment Committee for NuFund Venture Group and worked closely with national venture capital funds on advanced financial modeling and strategies for accessing and administering highly regulated government funding programs.
Chris Newton
Chief EngineerChris brings two decades of hands-on engineering, operations, and leadership experience across the aerospace, energy, and infrastructure sectors.
He has held VP roles at Gravitics and ABL Space Systems, as well as served in senior technical leadership roles at Virgin Orbit, Relativity Space, and SpaceX.
At the latter, he worked on everything from launch to recovery to the first developed hardware for Starship.
He is also a published author on solar thermal energy systems and holds patents for solar water purification technologies and spinal surgical hardware.
