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Chris C. Kemp | |
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
Nationality | American |
Employer | Astra |
Title | Founder, Chairman and CEO |
Chris C. Kemp (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur who, along with Dr. Adam London,[1] founded Astra, a space technology firm based in California, in 2016.[2] He served as the chief information officer (CIO) for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California,[3] and as NASA's first chief technology officer (CTO) for information technology.[4] While at NASA, Kemp partnered with Google and Microsoft and helped in the creation of Google Moon and Google Mars.[5] 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.[6][7] He was also one of the founders of Nebula, a company that from 2011 to 2015, worked to commercialise the technology.[8]
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