Our Team
We have experts from leading institutions worldwide working together to ensure the mission's success.
We are grateful to the supporters who made this project possible.
- Arnold Ventures
- The Audacious Project
- Ballmer Group
- D N Batten Foundation
- The Benificus Foundation
- Bezos Earth Fund
- Christina and Jeffrey Bird
- Builders Vision
- Catena Foundation
- The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation
- The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
- J and Suzanne Crandall
- Rachel Crane
- John S. Curry
- Aart de Geus and Esther John
- Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation
- Tony Fadell
- Global Methane Hub
- Bev Grant
- Heising-Simons Family Fund
- Barbara and Amos Hostetter
- King Philanthropies
- The Lemelson Foundation
- Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
- Julie and Ian McGuire
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
- New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment
- Charles M. Nunzio
- Bill and Susan Oberndorf Foundation
- Pat and Patti O'Donnell
- Signe Ostby and Scott Cook
- The Parke Family
- Quadrivium Foundation
- Robertson Foundation
- Ted and Linda Schlein
- Skoll Foundation
- Skyline Foundation
- Three Cairns Group
- Three Graces Foundation
- Valhalla Foundation
- Andrew W. Verhalen
- Sue Wagner and Neal Leonard
- Zegar Family Foundation
- Anonymous Donors
Meet the team
Bryn brings 40 years of experience in high-tech development to the MethaneSat team. In his most recent role, he served as System Architect at Lockheed Martin Space where he developed conceptual designs for new space systems and executed advanced design studies. Previous roles included Program Manager, Chief Engineer, and Director of Software Engineering as well as serving as the Director of Systems Engineering for Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Programs.
Nat is the first Site Reliability Engineer on the Mission Operations team, supporting the tools used by satellite operators for command and control. He has a background in software test management, and comes to MethaneSAT from healthcare, where he was developing telehealth software infrastructure for a large hospital network when a pandemic started.
Russell brings over 25 years of experience in managing and developing complex software systems for mission-critical applications. Most recently, he served as Director of R&D at Qwaltec, overseeing creation of a TCPED Mission Operations SaaS platform on Amazon Web Services. His background includes multiple special programs involving airborne and spacecraft sensing technologies. He also has extensive experience in research, architecture, development, training, and maintenance of mission systems.
Peter leads the ground system development and mission operations for MethaneSAT. He has worked in industry, academia and at NASA, bringing over 30 years of senior leadership experience in space systems and flight operations for a range of space science missions. Most recently, he oversaw development of deep space navigation for the UAE’s Hope Mars mission and systems engineering for a university-led astrophysics cubesat project.