External Advisory Committee

Jason Cooper*
CEO, Advanced Nuclear
GE Vernova
Jason.Cooper@gevernova.com

Cara Courtney
Mechanical Senior Engineer
Emerging Technologies
Dell Technologies
cara.courtney@dell.com

Binz DeWalch*
Chairman and CEO
DeWalch Technologies, Inc.
bdewalch@DeWalch.com

Amanda Dodd*
Senior Manager, Computational Science and Analysis
Sandia National Laboratories
ajbarra@sandia.gov 

Oded Doron*
VP of Engineering
X-energy
odoron@x-energy.com

Ashley Durand*
SpaceX (retired)
ashleybrowning@utexas.edu

Karl Fisher*
Executive Director
Applied Research Laboratories (ARL:UT)
UT Austin
kfisher@arlut.utexas.edu

Ginny Garriques*
Chief Engineer – Pipelines, Offshore, and Infrastructure
Subsurface & Subsea
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering
ginny.garriques@exxonmobil.com

Julio C. Guerrero*
Founder and CEO
Cambridge Research and Technology LLC
jguerrero@crativ1.com

Bunker M. Hill*
Senior Technical Advisor
Downhole Emerging Technologies
bunkerhill@gmail.com

Fang Lu*
Senior Machine Learning Manager
Apple
lufang05@gmail.com

Jeff Miers*
Director, Partners & Alliances, Energy & Utilities
Amazon Web Services
jmaws@amazon.com

Steve Mills*
Mechanical Engineer
Meta Platforms
stevem@meta.com

David Rigby*
Senior Manager, Space and Missile Systems
The Boeing Company
David.A.Rigby2@Boeing.com

Vivek Sakhrani*
Chief Product Support
Atlas AI
viveksakhrani@gmail.com

Elliott Short*
Senior Engineering Fellow
Raytheon
eshort@raytheon.com

Greg Smith*
NASA Flight Operations, Lander/Surface Integration
NASA
greg.n.smith@nasa.gov

Kari Stanley*
Senior Program Manager, Space
Lockheed Martin
kari.o.stanley@lmco.com

Peter Weaver
FE Team Lead, Engineering Supervisor
Chevron
PeterWeaver@chevron.com

Mark Williamson
Operations Director
Ironwood Capital Partners
Mark@ironwoodca.com