Alex Fielding is CEO, Chairman, and co-founder with Steve Wozniak of Privateer Space. Prior to Privateer, Mr. Fielding was CEO and founder of robotics company Ripcord from 2014-2021 which was started in partnership with NASA. He began his career working at Cisco and Apple, was CTO of TVDC, PowerAssure, and Vigilent, spent five years at NASA working for the CTO. He is on the advisory board of Astra Space and on the Board of Directors of Ripcord, CodeWarrior Foundation, ISKME, and Privateer. He is an active contributor to the IETF and on two NIST working groups.