Zaheer Ali is a respected expert onspace technology and policy, an agilist,leader, and technologist. He is now COO at PositonInc. a Managing Partner at New Space Finance, and a Professor of Practice atThunderbird School of Global Management, which is part of ASU. Previously hehas served in executive positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, directingstrategy for High Performance Compute, ThinkOrbitalwhich is building a 4th generation space station and at Space Railway. He isinvited to speak around the world on space, artificial intelligence, the futureof work, and how to help enterprises become agile.
As both a professor andentrepreneur he advises several companies in the New Space Sector. He alsoserved as a Senior Manager at USRA, leading aviation data sciences, artificialintelligence, quantum sciences, and nanotechnology for the NASA Ames NAMS contract.He was formerly a senior member of the project management office for NASA’sStratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) with responsibilityfor all software products and safety and quality of all USRA work on SOFIA.Previously he built science instrumentation and the laboratory facilities forSOFIA and stood up their science ground operations. In addition, he managedscience ground support on multiple deployments around the world.
Zaheer is also a founding executivefor Material Mind, an applied AI science company, and AIXIA Global, an Industry4.0 technology integration and digital/agile transformation company. He istrained as a research physicist which has resulted in patents, an R&D100award, and over 40 authored or co-authored publications. He has also worked asan engineer and manager of teams and programs for the US Department of Energy’sNevada Test Site where he co-founded the National Center for Nuclear Security,worked as a Principal Investigator and Shot Director at the Laboratory forLaser Energetics of the University of Rochester and consulted as a micro/nano device (MEMS) engineer.
Zaheer is a 1st generation American of India ancestry and Muslim faith. He is also a practicing Stoic and has been honored to be part of a Maori Whanau and wears his 3rd generation Punamu with pride. His perspectives on space and the future are a consilience ofEaster and Western ideas with an inherent integration of indigenous wisdom.
E-MGM: Thunderbird School of GlobalManagement, Global Management
BA: University of California at Berkeley, Physics
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