David Strobel

Technical Advisor

Mr. Strobel has over 50 years of satellite and space experience with the USAF, Northrop, SAIC, Space Electronics Inc., Space Micro, and Voyager Space. His roles include project manager, program manager, marketing, President, and CEO. Mr. Strobel has participated in satellite product R&D and market launch, and successfully inserted and marketed many radiation hard/tolerant space electronics subsystem products including space computers, radios, lasercom, and cameras/star trackers. He has developed an extensive “rolodex” of top level contacts in the space industry covering government, industry, and academia. He transcends commercial space and government (DOD and NASA) customers which include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Space, Boeing Space, General Atomic, SDA, AFRL, Airbus, Thales Alenia Space (TAS), Sierra Nevada and JPL. He sold two employee-owned space companies at market premium prices to a) Maxwell Technologies and b) Voyager Space.

Education:

B.S. Astronautical Engineering USAF Academy
M.S. Nuclear Engineering, Cornell University
M.S. Systems Management, University of Southern California
M.B.A. Claremont Graduate School, Peter Drucker School of Management

Experience:

U.S. Air Force-Nuclear Research Officer
Northrop Grumman- Project manager/Program manager- hybrid modules and rad hard microelectronics
SAIC-Division Manager/Program Manager- space & missile subsystems, electronics technology
Space Electronics Inc- President-developed and marketed ICs, module, and computers into the world wide satellite market
Space Micro Inc- CEO- Founded and grew a space subsystem company to $28M revenue and sold at a market premium to Voyager Space.
Voyager Space- Vice President- Business development and marketing

Board positions:

Member- Space Electronics Inc. (7 years)
Chairman-Space Micro Inc, (20 years)
Member Board of Advisors: CyberSphere Data –current
Member Board of Directors- USAF Academy Foundation-current
Member Board of Advisors- Okika Technologies- current