Chris Pearson
CEO, Agile Space Industries
Chris is CEO of Agile and has more than 25 years of experience in the space industry working at the component, spacecraft and mission level in the US and Europe. Chris gained large organization experience through senior positions at Airbus, Moog and Redwire as well as startup experience successfully leading two Colorado-based startups through periods of high growth, commercialization and onto acquisition (ABSL Space Products by Enersys in 2011 and Roccor by Redwire in 2020).
Originally from the UK, Chris became a naturalized citizen in 2016 and now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, two daughters and two badly behaved dogs. Chris holds a Bachelors in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, Masters degrees in Space Engineering and Control Engineering from Cranfield University and Imperial College respectively as well as an Executive MBA from the University of Colorado.