The Advanced Space Team
Executive Leadership

Bradley Cheetham
Chief Executive Officer & PresidentBiography

Jeffrey Parker, Ph.D.
Chief Technology OfficerBiography

Thomas Gardner
Director of EngineeringBiography
Mr. Gardner is the Director of Engineering for Advanced Space, prior to joining Advanced Space, Mr. Gardner had experience as the Chief Engineer/Principal Mission Systems Engineer at Moon Express, Inc. (MoonEx), as a Senior Principal Space Systems Engineer with the Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) NASA/Space Applications Group, and as a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin. He is an expert in spacecraft systems engineering with over 35 years of experience in the field supporting a wide variety of programs including NASA robotic missions (Stardust, MEP, Lunar Prospector), launch vehicles (Athena, Titan, EELV), and the Space Shuttle. Mr. Gardner holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and M.E. in Engineering Management from the University of Colorado.

Dawn Massop Love
Director of Strategic CommunicationsBiography

Patricia Simmers
Director of Finance and Team ResourcesBiography

Rex Laceby, Capt. USMC (Ret.)
Chief of StaffBiography
Mr. Laceby is a retired, prior-enlisted, Marine Corps Officer with a Special Operations & Infantry background. Previously employed by the University of Colorado Boulder, College of Engineering and Applied Science, he supported National Security innovation and program development. Rex brings first-hand insight on how to support DoD customers to accomplish classified and time sensitive missions. Rex holds a B.S. in History from the University of Colorado Boulder and working towards a M.S. in Emergency Management & Homeland Security, concentrating in Cybersecurity Policy and Management. As a “Forever Buff” he continues to support CU Veterans and proudly mentors the CU Boulder Sounding Rocket Laboratory student group. Rex has a significant background in Force Protection (mitigating hostile actions against personnel, resources, facilities, and critical information) and brings years of leadership experience, team building, operational risk management, mission planning, RF wave propagation theory, and Special Operations tactical communication expertise to the team.

Michael Dickey
National Security Customer AdvocateBiography

Mike Beavin
Space Policy and Government Relations AdvisorBiography

Marty Rose
Senior Data ScientistBiography
Marty Rose is a data scientist with extensive experience in radical, discontinuous and disruptive innovation. He spent the past 16 years at Acxiom/LiveRamp in a variety of principal and senior data science roles and was a founding member of Acxiom Research, which operated as an entrepreneurial, VC funded startup. In the last two years at A/LR he authored eight non-provisional patents filed internationally and with the USPO.
Prior to working in the private sector Marty was a university research scientist and faculty member with the University of Arizona, and the University of Nevada System Desert Research Institute, and the Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences at UNR. He also provided expert witness testimony before the US Congress on statistical characteristics of climate change and variability.
Marty did his undergraduate work in social and physical sciences, emphasis on quantitative techniques, at Arizona State University, and his MS and PhD studies in Quaternary/Environmental Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Engineering Team

Tanisha Anand

Sandeep Baskar

Matthew Bolliger

Charles Cain

Michael Caudill

Sai Chikine

Lauren De Moudt

Alec Forsman

Michael Grant

Tyler Hanf

Aurelie Heritier, Ph.D.

Paul Imler

Ethan Kayser

Andrew Koehler

Patrick Miga

Connor Ott

Nathan (Parrish) Ré, Ph.D.

Kanak Parmar

Matthew Popplewell

Richard Poulson

Jaquelyn Romano

Mitchell Rosen

Ben Tatman

Michael Thompson

Anthony Zara
Information Systems

Scott Serafin

Justin Thammavong

James Thomas

Nena Gardner
Business Development

Sean Hoenig

Taylor Johnson

Matthew Feltner
Finance and Team Support

M. Clarkson

Dani Emrich

Michelle Gunderson
Jennifer Meredith-Mitchell
Gary Spoor
Sarah Smith
J. Stultz
Summer 2022 Interns

Gavin Edwards

Matthew Givens

Renee Spear
