Our Team
Alex Tai
Chairman
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An experienced CEO/ Chairman who brings commercial and fundraising expertise.
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Co-founder and COO of Virgin Galactic. Assembled and managed a team of 700 engineers.
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Chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation 2005-8.
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25 years at the Virgin Group. Head of Special Projects; roles included CEO & Team Principal of Virgin Formula 1 and Envision Virgin Racing Formula E Team.
Bill Bruner
Chief Executive Officer
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Former NASA Assistant Administrator - led Congressional Affairs for the entire Agency - landed $15+ billion annual budgets.
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Air Force Aviator & Col. with Bronze Star for meritorious service in combat.
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Pentagon Office Director - represented the Secretary of Defense at senior White House meetings.
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Grad, USAF Fighter Weapons & Advanced Airpower Schools.
David Gregory
Chief Technology Officer
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Development lead, Blue Origin BE-3 engine that launched Jeff Bezos & dozens of others into space.
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CTO, Ursa Major Technologies - designed, built, and tested the 3D-printed reusable rocket engine powering the Air Force X-60A hypersonic flight research vehicle & Stratolaunch’s Talon hypersonic aircraft.
Jess Sponable
President & Chief Operating Officer
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Selected as Space Shuttle payload specialist in Air Force manned spaceflight engineer program.
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Program Manager: built and flight-tested DC-X, the world's first vertical landing reusable rocket.
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Built and flight-tested X-40A, the predecessor of the operational X-37 spaceplane.
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Chief Engineer for USAF/ DARPA HTV-2 hypersonic boost-glide vehicle test program.
Ed Rayner
Director, Commercial Finance
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Ed was an Investment Director in the deal team at venture capital company, Arix Bioscience plc, and was Managing Director of Arix’s Fund Management operation. Before joining Arix Bioscience.
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Ed spent 18 years in finance as an equity analyst and portfolio manager.
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From 2004 to 2014, he was Head of Research at Alliance Bernstein and then a senior portfolio manager at AMP Capital.
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Ed has also worked for JP Morgan, UBS, and Alliance Bernstein.