EPISODE 024: TODD MOSHER | BLUE ORIGIN

The Leadership Crucible Podcast

Dr Mosher is the Blue Origin Director of Customer Experience for Orbital Reef, a commercial space station to replace the International Space Station later this decade. He was previously a Senior Manager at Amazon leading the Project Kuiper Technical Program Management team. Project Kuiper is one of the more ambitious commercial programs consisting of a constellation of 3,236 satellites to provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity around the world. Before that Dr. Mosher also worked on Project Santa to restore Amazon’s global fulfillment network capacity during the pandemic. Dr. Mosher has 32 years of experience working in industry and serving as a faculty member at three universities (Utah State University, University of California at Los Angeles, and the International Space University). He has directed the design of both human spaceflight and robotic spacecraft projects (Tyvak, SNC and Lockheed Martin). He has provided technical authority and successful execution from end-to-end of the product lifecycle, including manufacturing and launch. Entrepreneurial, he has helped two small companies (Microsat Systems and Syncroness) exit to acquisition and contributed to a third going public (Tyvak). He led and wrote successful proposals resulting in opportunities valued at over $5B from defense, civil, and commercial space customers. Other past employers include The Aerospace Corporation and General Dynamics. Dr. Mosher has a Ph.D. and M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado, an M.S. in systems engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a B.S. in aerospace engineering from San Diego State University.
He is a National Academies recognized expert serving on seven different panels including presenting results of a review of NASA’s technology portfolio to high-ranking government officials at NASA, Congress, and the Executive Branch. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he is also an Associate Fellow.
Since relocating to Washington from his home in Colorado, Dr. Mosher has started serving as the Chairman of the State of Washington Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI) Board and at The Museum of Flight as a member of the Spaceflight Committee. He was also a past Mentor for two companies in the Techstars Starburst Aerospace Accelerator program. He is an Alumni Guide for the Sigma Chi Horizons Leadership Program from 2009 to the present. When he lived in Colorado, he served on The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Rocky Mountain Chapter Board of Trustees and helped raise over $200,000 to help support blood cancer research and patients. He is a 2016 graduate of the Denver Chamber of Commerce Leadership Denver program. From 2013-2018, Dr. Mosher served on the University Alumni Association Board serving two different leadership positions as Chair of Student to Young Alumni Transitions Committee (2016-2018) and Vice Chair Business Development Committee (2014-2015). He was the 2012 University of Colorado Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Alumni Award Winner.
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