Advancing the National Imperative
We are unwavering in our unique role and commitment to developing our nation’s hypersonic capabilities through innovative flight test programs.
Aerospace Pioneers
Our manufacturing and testing facilities are located in the heart of the Mojave Desert, the epicenter of civilian aircraft development.
Meet Our Team
Learn more about our team of over 300 + engineers and technicians and learn more about our cultural foundation as builders who enjoy rapidly creating cutting-edge technologies.
Enabling the Future, Together
The Stratolaunch team brings together many of the nation’s top minds in aerospace and defense.
Executive Team
Zachary Krevor, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and President
Zachary Krevor, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and President
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
Chief Product Officer
Aaron Cassebeer
Chief Product Officer
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.
Andrew Benzing
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Benzing
Chief Financial Officer
Andy Benzing is the Chief Financial Officer of Stratolaunch, LLC. He is responsible to drive disciplined execution in the business to yield the company’s targeted financial results. He and the organization work together to plan, track, report, and analyze operational and financial information. Together with the rest of the staff, they use those results to make informed decisions about the direction of the business, risks, investments, and its day-to-day operations.
Benzing has 20 years of experience in the aerospace and defense financial field, and has led a variety of teams across multiple organizations. Prior to joining Stratolaunch, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Air Power in the Missiles & Defense segment of RTX Corporation. His career with RTX and its predecessor Raytheon Company spanned various other roles in Financial Leadership, Financial Planning, Business Management, Business Transformation, and New Business Capture.
For almost ten years before his career in finance began, Benzing was a U.S. Army Aviator. His roles in the military included company command, international liaison, a variety of staff roles, and took him across the globe in deployments for both combat and peacetime.
His education includes an MBA from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Duke University.
Michael Hopkins
Senior Vice President, Operations and Quality
Michael Hopkins
Senior Vice President, Operations and Quality
Colonel (R) Mike Hopkins is the Senior Vice President of Operations and Quality at Stratolaunch in Mojave, CA. Previously he was a Managing Director for Cerberus Capital Management following his retirement on 1 May 2023 from the United States Space Force after a 30-year military career. His final assignment was the United States Space Force Director of Test and Evaluation, serving as the principal test advisor to Space Force senior leadership and providing oversight of the USSF test enterprise. Prior to this position, he was assigned to the NASA Johnson Space Center Astronaut Office in Houston, Texas performing human spaceflight training, operations and support.
Hopkins was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force in January 1992. In April 1993, he was assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he worked on advanced space system technologies. In 1996, he attended the flight test engineering course at the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Following graduation in 1997, he spent the next five years testing aircraft at Edwards AFB and the Canadian Flight Test Center in Cold Lake, Alberta. Hopkins next served as an Olmsted Scholar at the Università degli Studi di Parma. From 2005-2009, Hopkins worked in the Pentagon with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and as a special assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hopkins was selected in July 2009 as one of 9 members of the 20th NASA astronaut class. On September 25, 2013, Hopkins launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS) where he served as a member of ISS Expeditions 37/38. More recently, the Missouri native served as Commander of the Crew-1 SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience, which launched on November 16, 2020 to the ISS for ISS Expeditions 64/65. This flight was the first post-certification mission of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft – the second crewed flight for that vehicle. Notable events during this flight include Hopkins voluntarily transferring from the United States Air Force to the United States Space Force, becoming the first Guardian astronaut. Additionally, Crew-1 broke the American crewed spacecraft mission duration record set by the final skylab crew in 1974 as well as having the first night splashdown of a U.S. spacecraft since Apollo 8 in 1968. Between the two flights, Colonel Hopkins has spent 333 days in space and conducted 5 spacewalks totaling more than 32 hours “outside” ISS.
Mike was born in Lebanon, Missouri, and grew up on a farm outside Richland, Missouri. He attended high school at School of the Osage in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, graduating in 1987. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1991 and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University in 1992.
Allison Cash
Vice President, Business Development
Leadership Team
Brandon Wood
Vice President, Manufacturing
Brandon Wood
Vice President, Manufacturing
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.
Joshua Stults, Ph.D.
Vice President, Advanced Programs
Joshua Stults, Ph.D.
Vice President, Advanced Programs
Dr. Stults is the Vice President for Advanced programs at Stratolaunch. His expertise is focused on hypersonic flight systems development and demonstration.
Prior to joining Stratolaunch, Dr. Stults led three expendable hypersonic system technology programs at DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office including the Hypersonic Weapon concept (HAWC), Tactical Boost Glide 2 (TBG-2) and Operational Fires (OpFires). He previously led a development planning team that started acquisition programs such as the USAF’s Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) which transitioned from DARPA’s Tactical Boost Glide. He also previously served as Air Force Materiel Command 4-star’s legislative liaison. His high-speed flight experimentation experience began with Air Force Research Laboratory on the Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program partnered with the Australian DSTG.
Dr. Stults holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science, both in aeronautical engineering, from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He received his BS in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Kate Squires
Sr. Manager, Marketing and Communications
Kate Squires
Sr. Manager, Marketing and Communications
Kate Squires, Senior Marketing and Communications Manager of Stratolaunch LLC, is an award-winning communication leader and strategist with a decade of public relations and marketing experience in the aerospace industry. She leads the company’s marketing and communication strategy and is a passionate advocate of flight test and the Stratolaunch story.
Kate began her professional career with Stater Bros. Markets in 2002 where she worked in a variety of roles pertaining to employee training, internal communication, and digital marketing. After completing her graduate education in 2012, she transitioned to her role as a public affairs specialist for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, where she spent six years representing the agency’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and Earth Science programs. She has represented numerous high-profile communication campaigns domestically and internationally, reaching wide audiences.
Prior to joining Stratolaunch, Kate also spent time working for Northrop Grumman Corporation as a senior communication specialist for the Palmdale Center of Excellence, supporting internal and external communications pertaining to the sites’ military aircraft program development, prototyping, manufacturing and testing.
Kate holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies concentrated in Public Relations and Master of Arts in Integrated Marketing Communication from California State University, San Bernardino.
Mike Barker
Sr. Director, Mission Operations
Mike Barker
Sr. Director, Mission Operations
Mike Barker is the Senior Director of Mission Operations at Stratolaunch. In this capacity, he is responsible for the test and operations of the Talon-A Launch System, including the Roc carrier aircraft and the Talon-A hypersonic testbeds.
Mike had a full career as an Aerospace Engineering Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. During his military career he was the Director of Aircraft Maintenance, the Director of Military Flight Test as well as the Director General Aerospace Equipment Program Management, retiring as a Brigadier General having completed multiple operational deployments and command roles. Following his air force retirement, he worked as a Senior Engineering Manager for Amazon, including leading flight testing for Amazon’s drone delivery program, Prime Air.
Mike holds a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s in Defence Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Aviation Systems from the University of Tennessee, a Master of Business Administration in Aviation Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School as an Experimental Flight Test Engineer.