2026 Mentors

Hyder Alabed

Vice President of Mergers, Acquisitions, & Ventures

Cook Inlet Region, Inc.

Jon Beam

President & Chief Strategy Officer

Rogue Space Systems Corporation

Marcus Bracey

Senior Engineer

SpaceWERX

Isaac Carp

Managing Director

Rochefort Asset Management

Bradley Casto

Mergers, Acquisitions, & Ventures

Cook Inlet Region, Inc.

Manwei Chan, Ph.D.

Director of International Science Development

Voyager Technologies

Adam Chen

Chief Revenue Officer

FinStrat Management, Inc.

Scott Copeland

Director for ISS Research Integration

Boeing

Francisco Cordova

Chief Operating Officer

ISS National Laboratory

Christie Cox

Utilization Manager for ISS Division

NASA

Sven Eenemaa

Chief Economist

ISS National Laboratory

Noah Feingold

Principal

Stellar Ventures

Kevin Foley

Co-founder, Sr. Strategist, Economic & Market Development

Genes in Space

Shahir Gerges

Director of Business Strategy

Orbital Reef at Blue Origin

Rahul Goel, Ph.D.

Global Head, Space Health

Axiom

Robert Hampton

Operations Director; NASA Liason

ISS National Laboratory

Natasha Heidenrich

Director, Strategy & Marketing

Astroport Space Technologies

Andrew Hovanec

Chief of Staff

Exotrail US

Tim Hsia

Builder

Context VC

Phillip Irace, Ph.D., P.E.

Science Program Director

ISS National Laboratory

Tony Kim

Principal

NAVER Ventures

Braxton Kukulka

Associate

J.P. Morgan

Rachel Lovejoy

President; former Chief IP Counsel at SpaceX

T Minus Zero LLC

Kristian Marquez, CFA

President & CEO, CFO

FinStrat Management, Inc.

Ian McCubbin

Project Manager and Systems Engineer

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Nakia Melecio

Senior Research Faculty; Co-director of National Science Foundation I-Corps Southeast Hub; Founder & Director, The MedTech Center of Excellence

Georgia Institute of Technology

Vickrum Nabar

Vice President

J.P. Morgan

Asra Nadeem

CEO

Draper University

Matt Patterson

Investor & Entrepreneur

Stellar Ventures

Jessica Piness

Business Development Manager

Aegis Aerospace Inc.

Ryan Reeves, Ph.D.

Deputy Chief Scientist

ISS National Laboratory

Jordan Roberts

Partner

Fenwick & West

Scott Rodriguez

Vice President, Government Programs & NASA HUNCH Program Manager

Nanoracks, LLC

Raphael Roettgen

Founder; Space VC Investor

E2MC

Stephen Rosenbaum

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

WTP Space

Lajja Shah

Director - gBETA ND

Gener8tor; Global Women in VC

Mari Anne Snow

CEO, Co-founder

Eascra Biotech; The Remote Nation Institute; Sophaya

Miki Sode

Innovation Strategist

Only People; Futurity Systems; Otento LLC

Alessandro Stabile

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Magma Space

Ken Sunshine

Co-founder, Board Member, COO; Advisor & Mentor

Vita Inclinata Technologies; Harmony Carbon Corp.

Justin Tilman

Director of Business Development for Civil Government Programs

Loft Orbital

Nicole Wagner, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder

LambdaVision, Inc.

Preston Wiley

Director, Counterterrorism

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Subah Zaeem

Partner

DraperU Ventures

Nicholas Zajciw

Manager, Business Development

Vast

Jon Zelon

Program Manager & Product Development Specialist

Terraxis, Inc.; Gravatics, Inc.; Zelon Graphics; GeoControl Systems