Tech govt Tim Solms named CEO of Slingshot Aerospace
WASHINGTON — Slingshot Aerospace, a space monitoring and knowledge analytics corporation, named longtime tech govt Tim Solms as its new chief govt officer, the company introduced Feb. 7.
The company’s previous CEO and co-founder Melanie Stricklan resigned from Slingshot in August 2023 for personalized causes, a spokesperson informed SpaceNews. Slingshot’s co-founder David Godwin had been serving as interim main executive until eventually Solms’ appointment.
“Slingshot has the opportunity to be the world chief in delivering exceptional and highly pertinent space details and analytics to support clients optimize their missions,” Solms said in a assertion.
Solms earlier worked at Microsoft, Dell, VMware, and most recently at Dun & Bradstreet, a service provider of business enterprise determination-producing facts and analytics.
Tim Solms. Credit: Slingshot Aerospace
At Microsoft and VMware Federal, Solms managed the companies’ protection and army business enterprise sectors.
Slingshot in current years expanded as a result of acquisitions, and won many U.S. Place Pressure contracts. Most just lately it was chosen by the Office of Commerce’s Office of Area Commerce to supply details on objects in very low Earth orbit for a new venture aimed at producing a civilian area targeted traffic coordination and management process.
Established in 2017, Slingshot is dependent in El Segundo, California and Austin, Texas. The organization operates a international network of floor-primarily based telescopes to monitor area objects, and delivers space targeted visitors manage application used by satellite operators to coordinate satellite maneuvers and talk with other operators to avert collisions.
