Advisory Board
Advisory Board at Space@VT
The Advisory Board for the Center for Space Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech (Space@VT) provides critical input for future growth and continued success.
The Advisory Board provides input on research opportunities and directions, as well as guidance for curricula and training for educating future space science and engineering students. Members of the Space@VT advisory board are leaders in the fields of space science, space engineering, and space technology. The current membership is as follows:
Kevin Leclaire
Geoshare / Lockheed Martin
Janet Bachtel
Lockheed Martin
Richard Behnke
SciencePrime, LLC
Richard Bevilacqua
Naval Research Lab
David Bowles
Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy, ODU
Claudio (Cesare) Caprio
BAE Systems
Lauren Dreyer
SpaceX
Keith Englander
Missile Defense Agency
James Fishenden
Aerospace Inc.
Rob Fulton
Valkyrie Strategic Partners, LLC
Larry Gordley
GATS, Inc.
Peter Hadinger
Inmarsat
Brian Holz
MANGATA Works
Mark Jahshan
Peraton, Inc.
Nafiz Karabudak
Lockheed Martin
Michael Keeton
Northrop Grumman Orbital Science Corp.
Jackie Kendall
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
John Klingelhoeffer
ARL
Andrew Kwas
NGC
Dino Lorenzini
Space Quest
Michael McLelland
Southwest Research Institute
Michael Mulqueen
HRL Laboratories
Larry Paxton
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
David Pierce
NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Amit Puri
Ingenicomm, Inc.
Patricia Remias
Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems
Erica Rodgers
NASA Headquarters
Dan Sable
VPT, Inc.
Shey Sabripour
CesiumAstro
Philip Smith
NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Richard Stapp
NGC
Michelle Thompson
Open Research Institute, Inc.
Brandon Witcher
VPT, Inc.