Mr. Mark N. Sirangelo
- Scholar in Residence for Space, Aerospace and Engineering at University of Colorado
- Founding executive and Former Head of Sierra Nevada Space Systems
- Founding member and past Chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation
- Founder and Chairman of eSpace, a nonprofit, that supports the start-up and growth of space technology companies
Mark N. Sirangelo currently is the Scholar in Residence for Space, Aerospace and Engineering at University of Colorado. He is also on the Tuskegee University Aerospace
Advisory Board and is a visiting professor at Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Mark has over a two decade space industry executive career having led teams which have successfully managed billions of dollars of space programs for over 300 U.S. based space missions. In addition to academia, he provides industry advisory and board services through his company QuanStar Advisors, LLC.
In the space industry, he was the founding executive and head of Sierra Nevada Space Systems for over 10 years until 2018. Previously, Mark was the Chairman & CEO of SpaceDev, a publically traded commercial space company that he grew from early stage until its merger with SNC. SpaceDev had many space firsts, including being on the inaugural winning X-Prize team and the design, build, launch and operation of one of the first small satellites and the development of the next generation space shuttle.
He was a founding member & past Chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which currently represents over 85 space organizations. He has been inducted as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served on the executive board of the Aerospace Industries Association.
Mark served for three years as the Chief Innovation Officer of the State of Colorado, a Cabinet level position. He is the most recent past Chairman of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Board providing advice to the office of the Secretary of Defense and the founding and now past Chair of the DOD’s Space Advisory Committee. Previously, he completed an assignment as Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator helping to develop NASA’s return to the Moon.
Mark and his organizations have been recognized with numerous corporate and personal awards. These include being inducted into the Space Foundation’s/NASA Technology Hall of Fame, the World’s Top 10 Innovative Space Companies by Fast Company, being named Manufacturer Builder of the Year by ColoradoBiz magazine, The Best Place to Work by the Denver Business Journal, Inc. Magazine’s top 200 companies, Defense Industry’s Fast Track 50, Deloitte’s Fast Track 500 and selected as a finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
One of the ways Mark gives back to the space industry is as the founder and Chairman of eSpace, a nonprofit, that supports the start-up and growth of space technology companies. As a personal passion, Mark has worked for over two decades to make the world a safer place for children as a founding Board member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which has resolved over 100,000 missing children cases to date.
Mr. Sirangelo has a multi-faceted personal background including being a long-term licensed pilot and a successful creative artist. He holds Bachelor of Science, MBA and Doctorate level degrees and has served his country proudly as a U.S. Army officer. He has current Top Secret and SCI security clearances.
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