Calvin was previously a United States Marine Corps infantry combat veteran of Afghanistan and a Purdue University graduate of the school of Mechanical Engineering. He’s spent his engineering career in both space (Blue Origin, Beyond Gravity) and aviation (Northrop Grumman, Extant Aerospace) manufacturing, focusing on circuit card assembly, structures assembly and repair, chemical etching, vacuum furnace heat treatment, fluids testing, and acquisition transition.
Calvin England | CEO | Co-founder
Mike played professional hockey in the NHL and is a Princeton graduate of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Since exiting the sports arena, he’s driven over $25m worth of savings while at Blue Origin. While at Blue Origin, he’s been responsible for the standup of new processes, executed conformance dispositions, and architected the automation of reliability and assurance reporting, leading to the organization saving over 80,000 man-hours.
Mike Moore | Chief Engineer | Co-founder
Bob earned his PhD in theoretical particle physics and became a CERN fellow in Geneva, Switzerland. After exiting two founding-CTO positions in the Bitcoin space (Ribbit Rewards, Vida Identity), Bob joined Fidelity’s R&D arm to study Bitcoin, which included standing up their mining operation. Bob serves as advisor to a select handful of Bitcoin companies and works as the lead of Braidpool, an open-source, decentralized mining-pool which uses a DAG to organize rewards.
Bob McElrath | Advisor
Kwadwo has spent his career researching and developing photonic systems across several of the biggest names in industry. He’s earned master’s degrees in electrical engineering and in optical sciences and is currently pursuing his PhD in photonics. He currently serves as a SME at Groundswell Startups and supports startups and founders from both a technical and business perspective.