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Our Asteroid Institute is a B612 program which collaborates with major institutions around the world working on asteroid related projects including research, science, and technologies. Our leadership drives strategy and operations and the Board of Directors oversees our long-term vision. Our Founding Circle, Asteroid Circle and global community of donors make our work possible.
Asteroid Institute
Board Of Directors
Founding Circle
Leadership
Strategic Advisors
Asteroid Circle
Dr. Edward Lu
Executive Director Asteroid Institute
B612 Co-founder, Former NASA Astronaut, astrophysicist
B612 Co-founder, Former NASA Astronaut, astrophysicist
Harold Reitsema
Harold is a planetary astronomer with more than 30 years experience specializing in the design and building of interplanetary spacecraft and astronomical imaging detectors. During his tenure at Ball Aerospace, he led design teams for Hubble Space Telescope, was the principal investigator for NASA Planetary...
John Carrico
Throughout his career, John has designed and developed mission planning algorithms and software, and worked as an astrogator: planning missions, designing trajectories, and tracking spacecraft. He has worked on flight dynamics mission analysis, operations, development, and systems integration. John has supported several operational Earth and...
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since its inception as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.
Aaron Xue
Operates Chinese subsidiaries of global high-tech companies including Compaq, Rackable, & SGI.
Dr. David Liddle
Former Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Board Member, SRI
Board Member, National Academy of Sciences
Board Member, SRI
Board Member, National Academy of Sciences
Lawrence Wilkinson
Lawrence Wilkinson is Chairman of Heminge & Condell (H&C), an investment and strategic advisory firm. Through H&C, Lawrence is involved in venture formation work, and as a director and counselor to a number of companies that he helped create over the years, among them: Wired,...
Danica Remy
Co-Founder Asteroid Day, Previously COO B612, Former COO Tides, Nonprofit Board Director
Allan Posner
Allan Posner has played integral roles in NASA and DoD programs. For the NASA NEAR program, as part of the Mission Operations Team, he designed and performed in-flight trajectory-correction maneuvers; as the Team GN&C subject-matter expert, he led in-flight operations of the magnetometer and the...
Hank Grabowski
Hank co-founded and became CTO of Applied Defense Solutions (ADS) in 2005 after working on the core development team for Analytical Graphics (AGI) for several years. Through his 20+ year career he combined his in-depth knowledge of aerospace engineering and software engineering to design and...