Ben joined SpaceX in early 2012 as a Responsible Engineer helping to design, build, test, and operate the Vandenberg SLC-4E West Coast launch site. He served as Lead Engineer for the inaugural flight preparing the launch vehicle on the pad and leading the Red Team with first on / last off responsibility.

From there, he pivoted to Recovery and helped lead the development of the landing barges from first steel in the shipyard, where he ran the build team, through the first landing missions at sea where he served as Deck Boss. He led through multiple iterations of the east and west coast landing barges.

He then founded “The Launch Company” which developed launch & test sites for New Space rocket companies where the team bootstrapped hardware to orbit. He successfully sold Launch Co. to Voyager Space in 2021.

Paul is an experienced aerospace and nuclear systems engineer and entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in high-stakes production hardware development.

He was an early SpaceX Responsible Engineer at Vandenberg with ownership over four high-energy compressible, incompressible, and hazardous fluid systems at the plant scale.

He then served as a lead control room operator and trainer and as a point engineer on a multi-billion-dollar launch program, where he navigated highly regulated, precision-driven environments with government customers.

He was previously the technical co-founder and COO of Radiant Industries, where he led the development of the world's first portable 1.2 MWe microreactor.

Chris brings two decades of hands-on engineering, operations, and leadership experience across the aerospace, energy, and infrastructure sectors.

He has held VP roles at Gravitics and ABL Space Systems, as well as served in senior technical leadership roles at Virgin Orbit, Relativity Space, and SpaceX.

At the latter, he worked on everything from launch to recovery to the first developed hardware for Starship.

He is also a published author on solar thermal energy systems and holds patents for solar water purification technologies and spinal surgical hardware.

Roger Chin is Applied Atomics' Chief Software Architect. Roger brings his experience building real-time reactor controls at Radiant and flight-critical systems at SpaceX, along with senior engineering roles at Microsoft and Google, to architect the software backbone for Applied Atomics’ long-life nuclear power plants.

Applied Atomics is deploying co-located nuclear power systems built for continuous operation and long service lives. Work at this scale requires software architectures that perform reliably through integration, validation, and long-term operation.

Roger leads software architecture and systems integration as core programs move from delivery to scale.

Leigh has led work across advanced energy and infrastructure, spanning journalism, communications, policy, and commercialization in highly regulated environments.

She began her career as an investigative television reporter before leading communications and digital modernization efforts for NASA, and later holding senior marketing and communications roles at advanced energy companies deploying novel hydrogen and carbon management technologies.

Her work focuses on ensuring energy solutions are communicated with technical precision and accountability, aligned with real-world deployment expectations for systems that will last for decades.

Joe Jacobson is the head of commercialization for Applied Atomics, where he focuses on commercial agreements, fundraising, and strategy. Previously, he founded Saint Elias Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm focused on commercialization, finance, and business strategy for companies in the advanced energy and frontier technology sectors. In the nuclear sector, Joe advised BWX Advanced Technologies (advanced nuclear), Disa Technologies (critical minerals processing technology) and others in the venture capital space. He continues to serve as a nonresident senior fellow with the Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center.

Eddy is Head of Operations at Applied Atomics, and he brings a track record built at the intersection of complex systems, infrastructure development, and highly regulated operational scaling.

Jordan Alves leads engineering and development efforts for the company's physical infrastructure. Jordan brings extensive experience managing full project lifecycles for mission-critical environments across advanced manufacturing, heavy industrial, and laboratory sectors.

Over the past decade, he has delivered complex infrastructure projects for some of the most technically demanding programs in the world — including manufacturing and launch site facilities for SpaceX and Relativity Space, infrastructure upgrades at SLAC National Laboratory, and facility development for fusion energy startup Pacific Fusion.