AdAstra With Josh Giegel, Entrepreneur - Future of Sustainability and Where NewSpace Fits In
03/22/23 • 73 min
AdAstra With brings the insights of top NewSpace and Clean Tech industry leaders and game changers to the masses with authentic conversation and discussions on hot industry topics! Our hosts Seyka and Brian Mejeur, the founders of AdAstra Talent Advisors, sit down with Josh Giegel, current Technologist and Entrepreneur, former CEO and Co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop.
Josh started his career at SpaceX as a Propulsion Engineer then did stints at Virgin Galactic and a Clean Tech company until he moved over to Virgin Hyperloop and worked his way through the company all the way up to CTO then CEO. Now Josh serves as an advisor to many ventures behind the scenes focused in Clean Tech, space, and defense.
Over the course of the episode Seyka, Brian and Josh talk about:
- The shifting culture of the NewSpace industry
- How he established and grew his leadership and communication skills
- Unpacking what the future of sustainability and how NewSpace intersects with Clean Tech
We hope you enjoy this episode and visit AdAstra.us to learn more about how AdAstra Talent Advisors is the premier NewSpace and Clean Tech headhunting firm for startups!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyka/
AdAstra With brings the insights of top NewSpace and Clean Tech industry leaders and game changers to the masses with authentic conversation and discussions on hot industry topics! Our hosts Seyka and Brian Mejeur, the founders of AdAstra Talent Advisors, sit down with Josh Giegel, current Technologist and Entrepreneur, former CEO and Co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop.
Josh started his career at SpaceX as a Propulsion Engineer then did stints at Virgin Galactic and a Clean Tech company until he moved over to Virgin Hyperloop and worked his way through the company all the way up to CTO then CEO. Now Josh serves as an advisor to many ventures behind the scenes focused in Clean Tech, space, and defense.
Over the course of the episode Seyka, Brian and Josh talk about:
- The shifting culture of the NewSpace industry
- How he established and grew his leadership and communication skills
- Unpacking what the future of sustainability and how NewSpace intersects with Clean Tech
We hope you enjoy this episode and visit AdAstra.us to learn more about how AdAstra Talent Advisors is the premier NewSpace and Clean Tech headhunting firm for startups!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyka/
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AdAstra With Glenn Case, Founder and CTO, Hermeus Corporation - The Case for Hypersonics
AdAstra With brings the insights of top NewSpace and Clean Tech industry leaders and game changers to the masses with authentic conversation and discussions on hot industry topics! Our hosts Seyka and Brian Mejeur, the founders of AdAstra Talent Advisors, sit down with Glenn Case, Founder and CTO of Hermeus.
Glenn Case and the team at Hermeus is working on building Mach 5 passenger planes that allow us to cross the Atlantic in 90 minutes! Glenn has almost 15 years of experience working in the NewSpace industry on propulsion and structures, while also feeding his entrepreneurial spirit, founding his second company with Hermeus.
Over the course of the episode Seyka, Brian and Glenn talk about:
- How to drive progress with such a massive new technology, and approach for starting new technology companies
- The landscape of hypersonics and defense and what we need to get America to a competitive level
- How Glenn thinks about building a team from the ground up and the evolution of building culture
- Hypersonics is a difficult and expensive thing to solve, so why should we do it?
Check out some of Hermeus’s great creative content discussed in the show - Hermeus Team Reacts to Top Gun
We hope you enjoy this episode and visit AdAstra.us to learn more about how AdAstra Talent Advisors is the premier NewSpace and Clean Tech headhunting firm for startups!
https://www.hermeus.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyka/
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AdAstra With Ryan Carlisle, Co-Founder/CTO, Argo Space Corp. - What is the Next Big Domain in Space?
AdAstra With brings the insights of top NewSpace and Clean Tech industry leaders and game changers to the masses with authentic conversation and discussions on hot industry topics! Our hosts Seyka and Brian Mejeur, the founders of AdAstra Talent Advisors, sit down with Ryan Carlisle, the Co-Founder and CTO of Argo Space Corp.
Ryan started his career at SpaceX and rose the ranks to Director of Engineering until leaving SpaceX in 2020 and starting Argo Space Corp. Argo Space Corp. is Co-Founded by Ryan and his two brothers and just emerged from stealth mode. The mission of Argo Space is to make space transportation abundant and affordable using reusable vehicles powered by water harvested from the moon.
Over the course of the episode Seyka, Brian and Ryan talk about:
- The growing space economy and what is to come in the market, especially with Starship coming online
- His strategies for team building and his leadership philosophy
- The vision for in space transportation and why Argo is different from the competition
We hope you enjoy this episode and visit AdAstra.us to learn more about how AdAstra Talent Advisors is the premier NewSpace and Clean Tech headhunting firm for startups!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyka/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mejeur/
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