Our Team

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.

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Strategic Advisor
New Rick Armstrong

Rick Armstrong

Son of Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Rick has proudly continued his father’s legacy of giving back through his own philanthropy and by representing the Armstrong family. Rick earned a B.A. in Biology from Wittenberg University with a concentration in marine biology. He worked for a number...
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Tito’s Handmade Vodka

As the company grew, Tito empowered each and every member of the team, regardless of their role, to support the causes they were passionate about in their local communities.
Harold-Reitsema

Harold Reitsema

Institute Mission Director
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...
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John Carrico

Institute Astrodynamicist
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...
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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.
Lawrence Wilkinson

Lawrence Wilkinson

Board Director
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,...
ALLAN POSNER

Allan Posner

Institute AstrodynamicistInstitute Principal Systems Engineer
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...
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