Executive Officers

Robert “Rob” Meyerson, 56
Chief Executive Officer and Director

Starting in 2003 and reporting directly to Mr. Bezos, Mr. Meyerson oversaw the transformation of Blue Origin from its founding into a more than 1500-person engineering and development organization executing on government and commercial contracts. Under his leadership, Blue Origin developed and flew the suborbital human-rated launch system, New Shepard; built a liquid rocket engine business including the BE-4 rocket engine which will power the boost stage of United Launch Alliance’s next-generation orbital launch vehicle; and designed its heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn. During this time, Mr. Meyerson led Blue Origin’s growth from a single facility in Seattle, WA, to multiple launch facilities, manufacturing facilities, and sales offices operating in six sites across the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Meyerson is the founder of Delalune Space, a management consulting company focused on the aerospace, mobility, technology and investment sectors, and has served as the CEO since February 2019. Mr. Meyerson has built relationships with some of the most exciting new companies doing business in the space sector. Mr. Meyerson joined C5 Capital as an Operating Partner in 2020 and is a member of the firm’s leadership team. C5 Capital led a $130M Series B investment in Axiom Space, and Rob now serves on Axiom’s Board of Directors. He is a member of the Investment Committee for C5’s Impact Fund. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meyerson was a Senior Program Manager at Kistler Aerospace, and an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC). He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Sceye SA since June 2020, a member of the Board of Advisors of Hermeus, an aerospace engineering company, since 2019, a member of the Advisory Board of NLX, a communications technology firm, since 2020, and a member of the Board of Directors of Qwaltec since September 2019. He is also a member of the Board of Axiom Space, Qwaltec, Sceye SA, the Museum of Flight, and the University of Michigan College of Engineering Leadership Advisory Board. In 2016, Mr. Meyerson and the New Shepard team were awarded the Robert J. Collier Trophy for their accomplishments by the National Aeronautic Association; and in 2017 he was awarded the Space Flight Award by the American Astronautical Society.

David Glickman, 59
Chief Business Development Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Glickman will leverage his industry and investment experience to help identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities. Mr. Glickman has been a Partner at Resilience Capital since 2009 after working with the firm for several years on potential co-investments and portfolio company merger proposals. Since 2012, he has been the head of originations. From 2010 to 2012, he was the head of the transactions group and is currently a member of the transactions team. His responsibilities include origination, due diligence and oversight of acquisitions. He has extensive experience sourcing, structuring, executing, managing and exiting a broad spectrum of portfolio companies. Mr. Glickman also served as a General Partner with Sedgewick Venture Capital, a small middle market private equity fund focused on opportunistic investments in Cleveland, a Senior Vice President of The LCP Group in New York and Associate Director with the Principal Activities Group at Bear, Stearns in New York. Prior to private investing, Mr. Glickman was in the Corporate Finance Department of Bear Stearns & Company in New York, Los Angeles and London, engaged in all aspects of public debt and equity transactions. Mr. Glickman has served on the boards of numerous private and public companies including certain institutes of the Cleveland Clinic. He serves as a board observer at Xeeva, a board observer at Hynes Industries, and serves as a director of both Trialon Corp. and Luminance Brands. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College with a BA in political science, and from the University of Southern California with an MBA.

Board of Directors

Steven J. Demetriou, 63
 Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Demetriou is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Directors of Jacobs, a leading and innovative global solutions leader in renewable energy, cybersecurity, and space intelligence and exploration. Mr. Demetriou brings more than 35 years in chief executive and senior management roles across multiple sectors and has served on the Board of nine companies over the course of his distinguished career including FirstEnergy, Kraton Corp, OM Group., Aleris Corp., and Foster Wheeler. Since becoming Chief Executive Officer of Jacobs in 2015, Mr. Demetriou has steered a profound reshaping of the business portfolio, operations, and culture. Under his leadership, the firm has accelerated profitable growth and transformed into the leading, next-generation solutions provider by tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery, and cutting-edge manufacturing. This transformation has included the divestiture of its Energy, Chemicals, and Resource business and the acquisitions of KeyW, VanDyke, Wood, BlueCanopy, The Buffalo Group, and CH2M. Mr. Demetriou has put culture change at the top of the agenda at Jacobs and has personally championed inclusion and diversity, shifting his executive leadership team and the Jacobs board of directors to be more ethnically and gender diverse. He has also driven sustainability into the culture with the launch of PlanBeyond, Jacobs’ sustainability strategy aligned to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals; becoming a signatory of the U.N. Global Compact; and publishing Jacobs’ global Climate Action Plan, committing to 100% renewable energy and net zero carbon for its operations and business travel in 2020, and carbon negative by 2030. Mr. Demetriou has also taken a leadership role in the industry by speaking up and speaking out on racism and social injustice and launched Jacobs global Action Plan for Advancing Justice and Equality in July 2020. Mr. Demetriou’s broad international business perspectives are the product of more than 35 years in leadership and senior management roles across a wide range of industries, including specialty chemicals, metals and mining. In addition to serving on Jacobs’ Board, Mr. Demetriou has also served on the board for FirstEnergy Corp. since 2017 and as a strategic advisor to Resilience Capital Partners since 2009. In July 2021, FirstEnergy Corp. paid a financial penalty and agreed to a three-year deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio in connection with an investigation into the company’s lobbying and governmental affairs activities that led to a charge of honest services wire fraud. He is also a CEO member of the Male Champions of Change, the Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Infrastructure and Urban Development Governors, and a member of WEF’s Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders. He has served as the U.S. Co-Chair of the U.S. – Saudi Arabian Business Council since April 2017, and a Board member of the Dallas Citizens Council since December 2019. Mr. Demetriou also served as a Board member of Kraton Corporation from 2009 until 2018.

Linda Zecher, 68 [Resigned 9/29/23]
Director

Ms. Zecher has served as the CEO & Managing Director of the Barkley Group, a Boutique Consulting firm focused on Digital Transformation of enterprise organizations since 2016. Prior to founding the Barkley Group, Ms. Zecher served as President, CEO and Director of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), a global education and learning company from 2011 until 2016. After joining HMH, Ms. Zecher led the company through a successful Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring and completed several acquisitions including the Education Technology division of Scholastic. Under Ms. Zecher’s leadership the company completed a public offering and now trades on NASDAQ. Previously Ms. Zecher was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector organization. Ms. Zecher currently is a member of the Hasbro Corporation Board where she serves on the Audit Committee and Chairs the Cyber Security Committee; Tenable Inc., a cybersecurity company (NASDAQ: TENB) where she sits on the Compensation and Nominating committees; and the Board of the Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. She is a former Board member of the John F. Kennedy Library, Cradles to Crayons, The Board of James Madison University, and INSA (The intelligence and National Security Association.)

Jeanne Tisinger, 60
Director

Ms. Tisinger is an accomplished global leader with extensive experience delivering the enabling technology and business services for the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) global operations. As former Deputy Director of CIA for Support (DDS) from 2013 until 2017, she reported to the Director of the CIA and was responsible for cyber/personnel/physical security, infrastructure, finance, supply chain management, real estate acquisition and management, medical, human resources, and associated information technology. Prior to her role as DDS, Ms. Tisinger served as CIA’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), where she held worldwide responsibility for Enterprise Information Technology strategy, architecture development, infrastructure operations, software development, and service delivery. She drove enhancements to the CIA’s resiliency posture and significantly advanced inter- and intra-Agency collaboration capabilities. She constructed and executed the CIA’s acquisition strategy for commercial cloud services, resulting in the partnership with Amazon to provide an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud for the Top Security Intelligence Community (IC) Marketplace, while concurrently enhancing the IC’s cyber security posture. Ms. Tisinger has served as a senior advisor for cybersecurity to Mastercard since 2017. She also serves as a consultant on technology strategy, cyber defense, shared services and workforce inclusion for a variety of clients including financial services, technology solutions providers, energy, and national defense. Since 2019, Ms. Tisinger serves as Lead Independent Director for Midwest Reliability Organization, which oversees North America’s Bulk Electric Power Grid, and Satelles, a secure Position, Navigation and Timing Service, which provides global backup for GPS. Additionally, she has served on the Board of Advisors for Virginia Tech’s Hume Center for National Security and Technology since 2019. Ms. Tisinger was named by Washingtonian magazine as a Top 100 Tech Titan for the National Capital Region, Information Week’s Top 25 Public CIO’s, and FedScoop’s top 10 Most Influential Women in Federal IT.

Arun Gupta, 52
Director

Mr. Gupta is an accomplished mission-oriented executive with experience in US and International Venture Capital, Assessing Emerging Technologies, Scaling High-Growth Companies, Teaching Entrepreneurship, and Coordinating National Security & Tech Policy. Arun currently is an Adjunct Professor/Senior Advisor to Provost at Georgetown University, Lecturer at Stanford University, and Venture Partner at Columbia Capital. Arun maintains very active relationships in the emerging technology, entrepreneurship, public policy, and international finance communities. As a Partner at Columbia Capital, Mr. Gupta’s investment career spanned seventeen years, with a focus on emerging tech-enabled services and infrastructure companies in AI, Cybersecurity, Mobile, Government Services, and SaaS/Cloud infrastructure sectors in the US and India. He is currently on the board or was previously involved with Columbia portfolio companies: Adjoined Consulting (acquired by Kanbay International, Inc.), Altamira (Acquired by Clearsky), Daz3D, Millennial Media (NYSE: MM), Endgame (acquired by Elastic), Riptech (acquired by Symantec Corporation), Softek Storage Holdings (acquired by IBM), Verato, Vubiquity (acquired by Amdocs) and Webs (acquired by Vistaprint). Prior to joining Columbia Capital in 2000, Arun was at Carlyle Venture Partners focused on software investments. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Gupta held positions in Arthur D. Little’s telecom and technology consulting practice and shared responsibility for establishing ADL’s management consulting operations in Mumbai 1995-98. At Georgetown University, Mr. Gupta also serves on the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, and teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital at McDonough School of Business. Mr. Gupta is actively engaged with initiatives related to Tech & Society, AI/Cybersecurity at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), and the Pivot Program – teaching business skills to returning citizens. At Stanford University, Mr. Gupta serves on the Stanford in Washington (SIW) Advisory Board and currently teaches “Valley Meets Mission: Entrepreneurial Ventures in DC” at Stanford in Washington. The class highlights mission-oriented entrepreneurial opportunities through discussions with leaders at the intersection of the government, mission, technology, and entrepreneurship. As a mission-focused technology angel investor, Mr. Gupta focuses on SaaS, GovTech, and Sustainable Food investments and currently serves on the board of directors or angel investor in 1901 Group (acquired by Leidos); FAST Acquisition Corp, restaurant and sustainable food SPAC (NYSE: FST); Morning Consult, a leading SaaS global data intelligence company; and Blacklynx, a leading provider of high-speed analytics solutions for the National Security market. Mr. Gupta also is a member of the board of directors of LMI.