“I’ve been a spacer since I was a child — one of what we now call the Orphans of Apollo — growing up in the most exciting sliver of history: the first journeys of humankind beyond Earth.
I’ve also been an entrepreneur for nearly as long, building companies across multiple industries in Europe and the Americas. Today, as Senior Manager and Founder of Space Technology Holdings, I have the privilege of aligning my profession with my lifelong passion: expanding Earth’s economic sphere outward into space while commercializing space-derived technologies here on the ground. You might say our head is in space, but our feet are firmly planted on Earth.
The space sector is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. New technologies with multi-billion-dollar market potential are emerging from space research and development. Through STH and Starbridge VC, we bring capital, expertise, and rigorous due diligence to support promising ventures — from reusable space architectures to biotech, national security, semiconductors, oncology, and 3D tissue engineering.
Space exploration, through its uniquely demanding and diverse R&D requirements, catalyzes powerful fusions of ideas. It generates more transformative technologies — and ultimately more wealth — than perhaps any other human endeavor in history.
In my 2011 TEDx talk, I share more about my vision for business on the “High Ground” of space. At the core of our philosophy is a simple belief: for space ventures to be sustainable, they must also be profitable — powered by free enterprise and private capital, not solely dependent on shifting government budgets.”
