Dan Berkenstock is an entrepreneur and engineer from Chicago, IL with a healthy respect for the risks & rewards of doing business in space. He is also fascinated by scalable and novel data streams thatrevolutionize the ways that consumers, businesses, and governments make decisions in their day-to-day lives.

As a Co-Founder and the Executive Vice President & Chief Product Officer of Skybox Imaging, Berkenstock leads the vision, implementation, and delivery of revolutionary information products & services derived from timely satellite imagery. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Skybox. In this role he led the company from inception: raising $21M in equity financing from leading silicon valley venture capitalists, building the team to 50, obtaining the company's NOAA operating license, and overseeing the design & successful critical design review of SkySat-1.

Berkenstock is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford Universit...

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Julian Mann is an aerospace engineer and entrepreneur originally from Ukiah, CA. He serves as a co-founder and vice president of product development at Skybox Imaging. His work in the aerospace industry has spanned a broad spectrum, including NASA's manned space program, where he worked conducting oversight and risk analysis on the Constellation program. Additionally he has spent several years advocating for the advancement of microsatellite technology throughout the industry.

Mann got his initial exposure to microsatellite technology through his activities at the Stanford Space Systems Development Lab (SSDL) where he conducted both his undergraduate and graduate research. Prior to Skybox, his focus on the commercialization and proliferation of microsatellite technology led him to found Astronautical Development, LLC, which specialized in nanosatellite engineering, and provided products and services to several US government agencies.

At Skybox, Mann focuses on the de...

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John Fenwick is a former active-duty US Air Force officer with experience managing a range of national intelligence and military space programs, all focused on transitioning new capabilities from lab bench to orbit. He is a co-founder and vice president of flight programs at Skybox Imaging. In addition to development roles spanning the national space community, his tenure at the Pentagon also included several years of space intelligence advocacy on Capitol Hill.  Prior to his work inside the Beltway, Fenwick designed and built airborne imaging cameras as an Air Force research physicist.

Fenwick met his Skybox co-founders while earning an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  He previously earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a Draper Laboratory Fellow and built more than a few robots. He is also a distinguished graduate of the US Air Force Academy, where he jumped out of several perfectly good ai...

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Ching-Yu Hu is an entrepreneur born and raised in Silicon Valley. As a co-founder and director of business development at Skybox Imaging, Hu is responsible for driving new business opportunities with strategic alliances and partnerships around the world. Since co-founding Skybox, she has played a key role in supporting Skybox's Series A, B, and C venture capital financing, marketing, sales, and various business operations initiatives.

In 2008, Hu met her three co-founders who shared a vision of building a big data company powered by small satellites. Prior to Skybox, she held various roles at JPMorgan and TIAA-CREF creating portfolio optimization models, analyzing large volumes of transactional data to determine risks and exposures of financial assets, and other data analytics projects. As an undergraduate, Hu conducted research in the Industrial Engineering Operations Research department focusing on uncertainty modeling and robust portfolio optimization.

She earne...

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