Mark Sirangelo

Biography

Dr. Mark N. Sirangelo currently is the Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado. He is also on the Tuskegee University Aerospace Board and has been a visiting professor of government at Syracuse’s Maxwell College. Through his company QS Advisors, LLC, he provides industry advisory services.  Dr. Sirangelo has over a two-decade industry executive aerospace and space career having led teams which have successfully managed billions of dollars of programs for over 300 programs and missions. 

In the space industry, he was the founding executive and head of Sierra Nevada Space Systems for over 10 years. Previously, Mark was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SpaceDev, a publicly traded commercial space company that he grew from an early stage. He was a past two-term Chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has served on the executive board of the Aerospace Industries Association. 

At the State level, he served as the Chief Innovation Officer of the State of Colorado. At the Federal level, he is currently on the board of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Panel and was the most recent past Chairman of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation. Previously, he completed an assignment as Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator. 

Mark and his organizations have been recognized with induction into the Space Foundation’s Technology Hall of Fame, the World’s Top 10 Innovative Space Companies by Fast Company, Inc. Magazine’s top 200 companies, Defense Industry’s Fast Track 50, and in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, amongst other awards.

One of the ways Mark gives back to the space industry is as the founder and Chairman of eSpace, a nonprofit that supports the start-up and growth of space technology companies. As a personal passion, he has worked to make the world a safer place for children as a founding and two-decade Board member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which resolved over 100,000 missing children’s cases to date. He holds a Bachelor of Science, a Master’s in Business Administration, and Doctorate level degrees and has served his country proudly as a U.S. Army officer. 

Education

Ph.D., M.B.A., B.S., Seton Hall University