Speaker Interviews
Sita Sonty, CEO, Space Tango
Published in 2024
As the Chief Executive Officer of Space Tango, I set the mission and vision for growth, and oversee its implementation by our agile team. Prior to this role, I led commercial space at the Boston Consulting Group and served as the first Head of Human Spaceflight Sales at SpaceX, executing the first private spaceflight sale on the Crew Dragon. I was tapped to lead global market strategy for Starlink in that role; prior roles include VP at Sierra Nevada Corporation and Director for National Security at Raytheon.
Raquel Buscaino, Emerging Technology Lead, Deloitte
Published in 2024
I lead Deloitte’s Novel & Exponential Technologies (NExT) team where my team and I sense, and make sense of, emerging technologies that are likely to change the way our world works and lives. From brain-computer interfaces and synthetic biology to space exploration and quantum computing, my team and I aim to distil signal from noise, value from hype, and profitable actions from ambiguous concepts.
Mark Davidson, Small Business Innovation & Technology Partnerships, JPL
Published in 2024
I’m the manager of the JPL NASA SBIR program office representing the lab and the NASA SBIR program to the southern Califronia region. JPL focuses on research and NASA missions to explore our solar system and the broader universe in search of extant life and origins of the universe in addition to Earth science missions focued on atmospheric science, geology and hydrology.
Melissa Fensterstock, VC at Material Impact
Published in 2024
Certainly! At my core, I’m a science nerd with a few advanced degrees. I have an MBA from Harvard Business School, MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. I’ve been an operator for more than a decade, most recently as CEO of Landsdowne Labs, a spin out from Bob Langer’s Lab at MIT. I am intellectually curious and space is asbolutely fascinating and dreamy.
