Advancing the National Imperative

Dr. Zachary C. Krevor is Chief Executive Officer and President of Stratolaunch, LLC. He is responsible for day-to-day company operations while overseeing the integration of customer requirements with the Stratolaunch product. He leads strategic development of the company offering, ensuring successful business operations that serve the test needs of the hypersonic community.

Dr. Krevor has nearly 20 years of experience leading integration across business and engineering teams to develop alternative aircraft and spacecraft technologies. His leadership has resulted in the development of new technology solutions that have been used by a variety of government and commercial customers. Dr. Krevor has experience developing new business by leading contract opportunities and collaborating with business development on Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and NASA capture strategy, relationship building, proposal writing, and awards. He worked as an engineer on the Lockheed Martin Orion program and as a member of Lockheed’s Altair Lunar Lander team. He was also a Chief Systems Engineer on the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser program. He provided technical leadership for Sierra Nevada’s Space Systems Advanced Development group, leading to multiple business awards. Prior to becoming the President and Chief Operating Officer at Stratolaunch LLC, Dr. Krevor was the Vice President of Engineering at Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, with leadership responsibility for launch vehicle development and integration with the carrier aircraft while helping to win new business.

Dr. Krevor has a M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow, a member of the Space Systems Technical Committee, and a private pilot.

Aaron Cassebeer has been designing, building, and testing prototype air and ground vehicles for over twenty years. His focus is the rapid prototyping of clean-sheet designs, and he has significant experience across all stages of vehicle development. He is the Chief Product Officer at Stratolaunch, responsible for the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management departments. He was Chief Engineer of the Talon-A hypersonic vehicle development program from concept through Critical Design Review. Previously, Aaron worked at Scaled Composites where he was Director of Engineering. While at Scaled, he brough four clean-sheet aircraft from concept to flight test, including SpaceShipTwo, Roc, and the Model 401. These vehicles included a supersonic rocket powered glider, the world’s largest aircraft, and two subsonic technology demonstrators. His areas of technical depth include rapid prototyping, structures, composites, mechanical systems, fluid systems, flight controls, systems engineering, ground testing, and flight test engineering. Before Scaled, Aaron designed, build, and tested four composite open-wheel racecars in four years and worked at the Skip Barber Racing School as a mechanic and pit crew member. He graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. 

Brandon Wood is the Vice President of Manufacturing and Operations at Stratolaunch. He has been developing prototype aerospace vehicles for nearly 30 years spanning a variety of size, speed, and survivability requirements.

Brandon started his career as a US Air Force Developmental Engineering Officer, first assigned to the Hypersonic Technology (HyTech) Program at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He later developed advanced satellite capabilities for the National Recognizance Office (NRO) and ended his military career leading the flight test of prototype aerospace vehicles vital to national security.

In 2007, Brandon joined Scaled Composites LLC and led a prototype vehicle manufacturing program and served as a flight test engineer on Proteus and White Knight experimental test aircraft supporting multiple payloads and customers. In 2011, he joined Stratolaunch’s Roc carrier aircraft development program as the Integrated Engineering and Analysis Lead, later becoming Test Lead and serving as Test Conductor for first flight.

Brandon holds a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Aero/Astro Engineering and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jackson Kemper, III is Senior Vice President of Washington Operations at Stratolaunch LLC, is a satellite and cybersecurity industry veteran with nearly 30 years of leading Sales and Business Development efforts to Enterprise and Government customers globally. Mr. Kemper is a proven industry leader with a record of leading Sales efforts and motivating his teams to exceed goals. Prior to joining Stratolaunch, Jackson led the US Government Sales efforts for Mynaric, AG, a provider of optical communications terminals for space, air, and ground applications. Before Mynaric, Jackson spent 5 years as the revenue lead for Tresys Technology, LLC, a provider of government-certified cybersecurity products and services, providing solutions to Enterprise and Government customers globally.

Jackson also established and managed his own consulting practice, JK3 Associates, LLC, where he provided outsourced Business Development and Government Affairs services to a diverse customer set, including COMSATCOM capacity providers and a low profile phased array SATCOM antenna company.

Jackson also led Sales and BD efforts for SATCOM Industry leaders, including Inmarsat Government as the SVP of Sales, and Iridium, as the Vice President of Business Development.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kemper led Sales and Government Affairs activities for Cryptek Secure Communications and DRS Technologies (now Leonardo DRS).

Mr. Kemper has BS in Management (cum laude) from Boston College and an MA from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.