Steven Shinn

July 14, 2025 by
Steve Shinn is the vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer for The Aerospace Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for providing leadership for Aerospace’s financial and business processes, including accounting, finance, and treasury operations. Shinn manages the corporation’s ongoing business transformation to modernize business functions and financial tools, optimizing Aerospace’s ability to effectively […]

Michelle L.D. Hanlon

July 14, 2025 by
Michelle, a space lawyer, is the Executive Director of the Air and Space Law Program at the University of Mississippi. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law and the Journal of Drone Law and Policy. Michelle is a Co-Founder, President and CEO of For All Moonkind, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that is […]

Zaheer Ali

July 14, 2025 by
Zaheer Ali is a respected expert on space technology and policy, an agilist, leader and technologist. He is a partner with Space Outcomes LLC, co-founder of Positon Inc., a partner at New Space Finance, and until recently Professor of Practice at Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU. He has served in executive positions at […]

Rafael Irastorza

March 11, 2025 by
Rafael J. Irastorza is a results-driven finance leader with over a decade of experience in financial planning and analysis, data analytics, and reporting automation. As Director of FP&A at Entertainment Technology Partners, he contributes to financial strategy, budgeting, and reporting automation. He has played a pivotal role in system migrations, ensuring seamless data integrity and […]

Jessica Malberti

September 14, 2023 by
Jessica Malberti is the Digital Marketing Manager at CrunchTime Information Systems and an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the University of Central Florida College of Business in Orlando. At CrunchTime, Jessica is responsible for executing digital marketing strategy and optimization, which includes managing SEO, SEM, social media platforms, and MQL and SQL reporting. In this […]

Bill Poellmitz

June 23, 2023 by
After more than 40 years in the corporate world as an entrepreneur, Bill decided to transition to the academic world, where he could provide training and insight to the next generation of leaders. Until 2019, he was co-founder and CEO of ClearSky Technologies, a pioneer in the delivery of hosted services to the cellular industry. […]

Michael Kaplan

June 23, 2023 by
A marketing professional with more than 25 years of experience, Michael Kaplan recently transitioned to academia. In 2021 he joined UCF and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Marketing at UCF College of Business. He brings a balance of theory and practice that engages students and challenges them to find actionable insights to […]