Management Team

Jason Kim has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board since October 2024. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Space Systems from December 2020 to September 2024 and as Vice President of Strategic Planning from September 2009 to December 2019. Mr. Kim has also held positions with Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. Mr. Kim attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering, and served in the United States Air Force from 1999 to 2006. Mr. Kim also earned a MS in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Darren Ma has served as our Chief Financial Officer since August 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Ma served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Spectra7 Microsystems from November 2017 to July 2020 and as Chief Financial Officer of GigPeak, Inc. from October 2014 to September 2017. Mr. Ma has also previously served as a business unit controller at Semtech (NASDAQ: SMTC) and a finance manager at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Mr. Ma received a BS in Managerial Economics from UC Davis and an MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Ramon Sanchez has served as our Chief Operating Officer since December 2025. Mr. Sanchez joined us after a 25-year tenure at The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), a global aerospace company, most recently as Senior Director of Operations for Space, Intelligence & Weapons Systems, since April 2022, and prior to that, as Senior Director of Operations for Missile & Weapon Systems and Site Leader in Huntsville, AL, from January 2021 to April 2022, and as Senior Operations Leader, Commercial Crew Transportation, at the Kennedy Space Center, from October 2017 to July 2021. Mr. Sanchez is also a U.S. Army veteran and holds a business degree from The Citadel Military Graduate College in Charleston, South Carolina.

Shea Ferring has served as our Chief Technology Officer since June 2023. Mr. Ferring has been working at the Company since April 2018 in several roles, including Senior Vice President of Engineering, Senior Vice President of Spacecraft, and Vice President of Mission Assurance. Prior to that, Mr. Ferring was a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of M2S2-Technologies, an engineering services company, from October 2014 to April 2018. Mr. Ferring has a BS in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science in Aerospace and Satellite Design, both from Arizona State University.

Nathan O’Konek has served as our General Counsel and Secretary since June 2026. Previously, Mr. O’Konek served as Chief Operating Officer of StarCatcher Industries, Inc., a space-based power infrastructure company. From May 2024 to January 2026, Mr. O’Konek served as General Counsel of Neo Space Group, a global space services company and portfolio company of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. Prior to that, from September 2021 to April 2024, Mr. O’Konek served as the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a space infrastructure company, and served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Redwire Holdings from June 2020 until its business combination in September 2021. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility in the aerospace industry. Mr. O’Konek began his career as a capital markets attorney in the London and New York offices of Latham & Watkins LLP. Mr. O’Konek holds a B.A. from Carleton College and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.