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Ryan McLinko is CTO and Co-Founder of Astranis, the company building and operating advanced satellite infrastructure for high orbits. Founded in 2015, Astranis pioneered MicroGEO, a new class of small, high-performance satellites that deliver dedicated, secure communications infrastructure to customers worldwide including sovereign governments, large enterprises, and the U.S. military. Astranis has five satellites on orbit today and is servicing a backlog of more than $1B of commercial contracts, with five new satellites set to launch next year. The company has raised more than $1.2B from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, and BlackRock.

Prior to this, Ryan was a Spacecraft Engineer and Mechanical/Electrical Teams Lead at Planet, where he designed and built a fleet of cubesats that image the entire planet's surface every day, and a Systems Engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation, where he developed flight control systems for the Dream Chaser vehicle. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering. Ryan also serves on the Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors of SEDS-USA.