3x founder

Joel Sercel

President & CEO @ TransAstra | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering | Inventor | Team Leader

Founder

TransAstra Corporation· Summer 2021 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States

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2019Founder· Momentus

Founder · since 1997

Company

Momentus

Role

Chief Technology Officer

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Santa Clara

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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TransAstra Corporation

Orbital logistics: Unleashing space industry, from Earth to asteroids

Summer 2021

Experience

Career

TransAstra
Founder
President & CEO · Southern California · 2015 – Present
2015
Momentus
Founder
Chief Technology Officer · Santa Clara · 2019
2019
ICS Associates Inc.
Founder
Founder and Principal Engineer · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · 1997 – 2019
1997
California Institute of Technology
Research Staff · 2000 – 2008
2000
California Institute of Technology
Senior Manager, Technical Staff · 2006 – 2008
2006
California Institute of Technology
Visiting Faculty Lecturer and Director of Laboratory for Spacecraft and Mission Design · 1993 – 2004
1993
US Air Force
IPA - Senior Government Official · 2002 – 2005
2002
Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA
Principal Engineer and Project Manager · 1997 – 2000
1997
JPL
Member of Technical Staff, Technical Group Leader, and Program Manager for Spacecraft Technology · Pasadena, CA · 1983 – 1997
1983

Bio

An engineer of several disciplines and a pioneer with a proven track record in innovation, team leadership, technical architectural design, software design, systems engineering,space mission design, space propulsion technology, satellite design, enterprise process engineering, training, teaching, and public speaking. PhD in space propulsion and plasma physics from Caltech. Have successfully built and led teams ranging in size from two people to over 100.