Mark Matossian, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

Recently emerging from stealth: venture to extend terrestrial data services to the Moon for both the terrestrial archival market and to support space operations with data analytics, archival services and broadband relay to terrestrial public and private clouds. >Re-scoped business plan >First funding round due diligence >Zero-g test >Category creator: NASA "Virtual Payload" >First virtual machine (VM) on ISS: Canonical Ubuntu Linux on Windows 10 via Hypervisor

Executive consultancy focused on business strategy, engineering and operations for venture-backed technology projects and corporate turnarounds. >[Confidential] - Stealth international Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance (ISR) services and training >[Confidential] - Business strategy turnaround for FCC, ITU and NOAA licensed satellite constellation >2Future Holdings - Hyperspectral + Agronomy Phenomics startup evaluation >SpaceLink - Go-to-market strategy for space-based optical communications >Solstar Space - Lead for HALO Lunar Gateway wireless access point successful contract win. Blue Origin New Shepard flight of innovative RF payload for first commercial in-flight space WiFi service; MSUA Chairman's Award. >Eutelsat America Corporation - Business Development, NASA CSP capture team >Blue Origin - Advanced product development technical evaluation team (confidential product) >ICEYE (Finland) - Software engineering, operational processes & management training >Solstar Space - Cislunar WiFi BD and development >SatWest - Iridium and INMARSAT telecom services contract negotiations and business strategy

Espoo, Fi

Responsible for all US operations and P&L, plus international special projects. Created the new US go-to-market strategy, guided the marketing and PR effort, and drove new operational capabilities for revenue growth. Closed largest deal to date for company.>DOD/IC - Successfully sought and closed deals in the critical Department of Defense and Intelligence Community markets, including NGA and the US Navy. Built trust-based relationships across DOD, IC, IN-Q-TEL, FEMA, and NASA.>Valiant Shield 2020 - Co-conceived and led ICEYE participation in major US/international INDOPACOM exercise with USN, NGA and Maxar, demonstrating multiple imaging modes, off-nominal collection, dynamic re-tasking, and stunning delivery times, earning praise from the US Navy, the Director of NGA, and the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense.>Strategic Partners - Created and managed enabling strategic partnerships with Lockheed, Maxar and other aerospace companies, analysis value-added partners, and universities.>2020 SpaceNews Small Company of the Year

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Managed relationships with major Android smartphone manufacturers worldwide. Led the technical and business process re-engineering for premium device prototype certification to be Daydream Ready (VR).https://vr.google.com/daydream/smartphonevr/phones/

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Established the world’s first high definition commercial Earth imaging spacecraft production line for 18 satellites. Successfully launched 4 spacecraft on a Vega rocket and negotiated a ground-breaking multi-launch SpaceX Falcon 9 deal.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Built aircraft payload development effort for Solar powered UAV (Titan Aerospace acquisition). Negotiated and scaled up flight operations partner, led Austrian Diamond DA42 aircraft acquisition, and selected US & international flight test sites.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Led new product introduction operations across 12+ factories in China, US, Japan and Malaysia for launch of Nexus products, including Android TV. Responsible for executive relationships, planning, supply chain, manufacturing and logistics.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Core launch team member in sequestered location. Executed highly sensitive worldwide testing and certification operations with credit card and banking partners. 2010 Google Top Ten Engineering Accomplishments.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Internal "gunslinger"​ for critical, urgent and sensitive special projects worldwide when previous efforts had failed. Confidential projects with successful results: increased global server utilization rate; led investigation for Audit Committee of the Google Board of Directors.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for global operations of data center hardware production of servers, network equipment, rack systems and cooling infrastructure. Led supply chain re-architecture that redefined the value-add chain, internationally relocated server production, reduced warehouse inventories, and re-directed global logistic routes

Santa Fe, Nm, Us

Created “New Space” startup to address telecom services in LEO and suborbital markets through innovative satellite constellation relays. Winner of the Satellite 2020 top MSUA Chairman's Award for Outstanding Innovation for User Community Development. >Blue Origin Flight Tests - Conceived, built, tested and successfully flew (2x) suborbital demonstration missions on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket at Jeff Bezos’ ranch in Texas. >NASA - Won research award to develop International Space Station data relay service.

First commercial millimeter wave radio manufacturer. Led supply chain management, manufacturing and logistics for 1-10 Gbps wireless point-to-point telecommunications equipment provider operating in the 71-96 GHz range. Member of Senior Staff reporting directly to CEO with 14 direct reporting staff at multiple locations; and cross-functional responsibilities across the enterprise.

Overall responsibility for finances, legal affairs, strategic partnerships, IT, operations and HR of international enterprise software venture with $33M of venture backing from JP Morgan Chase, AOL, Goldman Sachs, RobertsonStephens and others.

Responsible for business development and technical management of a satellite-based global broadband telecommunications project. Investors included Bill Gates, Craig McCaw, Boeing and Motorola.

Tsukuba, Ibaraki-Ken, Jp

Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) constellation design optimization for joint ESA-NASDA (now JAXA) study

Reston, Va, Us

Developed complex multi-satellite constellation design optimization algorithms and operations simulation model for classified SDI programs, and developed a 12 degree of freedom solar/thermal model for a NASA research satellite.

M.S.E., Aerospace Engineering

Ph.D., Operations Research/Optimization

M.S., Aerospace Engineering

Certificate, Space Studies

B.S.E., Aerospace Engineering

B.A., Russian & Eastern European Studies

Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет, Russian Language Intensive