Richard Pournelle

Richard Pournelle

Senior Vice-President of Business Development at NanoRacks

Rich Pournelle has lead sales and business development at NanoRacks since joining in 2011. He has helped build a variety of business lines at Nanoracks including launching over 200 cubesats from the International Space Station. Prior to NanoRacks Rich worked with a variety of aerospace startups including XCOR Aerospace and ICON Aircraft. He started his career serving as Professional Staff for the U.S. House of Representatives where he helped create the THOMAS legislative information system.

Richard holds a BA in Political Science from UCLA.

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