Chris Kemp
CEO of Astra Space (born 1977)
Chris C. Kemp is an American entrepreneur who, along with Dr. Adam London, founded Astra, a space technology firm based in California, in 2016. He served as the chief information officer (CIO) for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and as NASA's first chief technology officer (CTO) for information technology. While at NASA, Kemp partnered with Google and Microsoft and helped in the creation of Google Moon and Google Mars. He worked with the White House to develop the cloud computing strategy for the United States Federal Government and co-founded OpenStack, an open-source software project for cloud computing. He was also one of the founders of Nebula, a company that from 2011 to 2015, worked to commercialise the technology.
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