Full Name
Courtney Stadd
Job Title
Executive Vice President
Company (Please input the full name of your organization)
Beyond Earth Institute
Speaker Bio
Courtney Stadd has held senior positions at the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Transportation, The White House, and worked directly for three NASA Administrators, including as Assistant Administrator, Advanced Concepts and Technology, NASA Chief of Staff/White House Liaison.
During his tenure at Commerce, Courtney supported interagency efforts by the Department leadership to open up new market opportunities for the emergent commercial satellite/launcher sectors, including assisting the founding of the Office of Space Commerce. He was an early Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation Office responsible for regulating and licensing the commercial launch services industry. (Now located in the FAA.)
As Senior Director, Commercial Space, White House National Space Council (1989-92), he chaired an interagency Commercial Space Working Group, and led the drafting of Presidential directives encouraging a competitive commercial space industry, including satellite imaging.
Courtney has also either led or supported the U.S. Government relations/business development offices of pathfinder ventures including several commercial space launch companies, GPS (Trimble Navigation), high resolution satellite remote sensing (precursor to Maxar Technologies), commercial inflatable space modules (Bigelow Aerospace which successfully deployed a module to the International Space Station), telecommunications (EVP, TerreStar), leading Quality Management Software company that supported 85% of the defense/aerospace industry (TIP Technologies – recently bought by Deltek).
Stadd is Vice President Washington Space Business Roundtable Board of Directors (2022-present) (www.wsbr.org); Vice Chair, Flood Rescue Foundation (https://floodrescuefoundation.org/leadership/) Chair , Civil Space, Aerospace Industries Association (2021-2022); Executive Vice President, Beyond Earth Institute (https://beyondearth.org/); Corporate Partner, Hines Family Foundation (https://hinesfamilyfoundation.org/) - STEM focused on underserved students; Board, IgnitedThinkers (https://www.ignitedthinkers.org/) - focused on encouraging students to pursue STEM related careers.
During his tenure at Commerce, Courtney supported interagency efforts by the Department leadership to open up new market opportunities for the emergent commercial satellite/launcher sectors, including assisting the founding of the Office of Space Commerce. He was an early Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation Office responsible for regulating and licensing the commercial launch services industry. (Now located in the FAA.)
As Senior Director, Commercial Space, White House National Space Council (1989-92), he chaired an interagency Commercial Space Working Group, and led the drafting of Presidential directives encouraging a competitive commercial space industry, including satellite imaging.
Courtney has also either led or supported the U.S. Government relations/business development offices of pathfinder ventures including several commercial space launch companies, GPS (Trimble Navigation), high resolution satellite remote sensing (precursor to Maxar Technologies), commercial inflatable space modules (Bigelow Aerospace which successfully deployed a module to the International Space Station), telecommunications (EVP, TerreStar), leading Quality Management Software company that supported 85% of the defense/aerospace industry (TIP Technologies – recently bought by Deltek).
Stadd is Vice President Washington Space Business Roundtable Board of Directors (2022-present) (www.wsbr.org); Vice Chair, Flood Rescue Foundation (https://floodrescuefoundation.org/leadership/) Chair , Civil Space, Aerospace Industries Association (2021-2022); Executive Vice President, Beyond Earth Institute (https://beyondearth.org/); Corporate Partner, Hines Family Foundation (https://hinesfamilyfoundation.org/) - STEM focused on underserved students; Board, IgnitedThinkers (https://www.ignitedthinkers.org/) - focused on encouraging students to pursue STEM related careers.
