Advancing the National Imperative

Dr. Zachary C. Krevor is Chief Executive Officer and President of Stratolaunch, LLC. He is responsible for day-to-day company operations while overseeing the integration of customer requirements with the Stratolaunch product. He leads strategic development of the company offering, ensuring successful business operations that serve the test needs of the hypersonic community.

Dr. Krevor has nearly 20 years of experience leading integration across business and engineering teams to develop alternative aircraft and spacecraft technologies. His leadership has resulted in the development of new technology solutions that have been used by a variety of government and commercial customers. Dr. Krevor has experience developing new business by leading contract opportunities and collaborating with business development on Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and NASA capture strategy, relationship building, proposal writing, and awards. He worked as an engineer on the Lockheed Martin Orion program and as a member of Lockheed’s Altair Lunar Lander team. He was also a Chief Systems Engineer on the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser program. He provided technical leadership for Sierra Nevada’s Space Systems Advanced Development group, leading to multiple business awards. Prior to becoming the President and Chief Operating Officer at Stratolaunch LLC, Dr. Krevor was the Vice President of Engineering at Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, with leadership responsibility for launch vehicle development and integration with the carrier aircraft while helping to win new business.

Dr. Krevor has a M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow, a member of the Space Systems Technical Committee, and a private pilot.

Aaron Cassebeer has been designing, building, and testing prototype air and ground vehicles for over twenty years. His focus is the rapid prototyping of clean-sheet designs, and he has significant experience across all stages of vehicle development. He is the Chief Product Officer at Stratolaunch, responsible for the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management departments. He was Chief Engineer of the Talon-A hypersonic vehicle development program from concept through Critical Design Review. Previously, Aaron worked at Scaled Composites where he was Director of Engineering. While at Scaled, he brough four clean-sheet aircraft from concept to flight test, including SpaceShipTwo, Roc, and the Model 401. These vehicles included a supersonic rocket powered glider, the world’s largest aircraft, and two subsonic technology demonstrators. His areas of technical depth include rapid prototyping, structures, composites, mechanical systems, fluid systems, flight controls, systems engineering, ground testing, and flight test engineering. Before Scaled, Aaron designed, build, and tested four composite open-wheel racecars in four years and worked at the Skip Barber Racing School as a mechanic and pit crew member. He graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. 

Andy Benzing is the Chief Financial Officer of Stratolaunch, LLC. He is responsible to drive disciplined execution in the business to yield the company’s targeted financial results. He and the organization work together to plan, track, report, and analyze operational and financial information. Together with the rest of the staff, they use those results to make informed decisions about the direction of the business, risks, investments, and its day-to-day operations.

Benzing has 20 years of experience in the aerospace and defense financial field, and has led a variety of teams across multiple organizations.  Prior to joining Stratolaunch, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Air Power in the Missiles & Defense segment of RTX Corporation. His career with RTX and its predecessor Raytheon Company spanned various other roles in Financial Leadership, Financial Planning, Business Management, Business Transformation, and New Business Capture.

For almost ten years before his career in finance began, Benzing was a U.S. Army Aviator.  His roles in the military included company command, international liaison, a variety of staff roles, and took him across the globe in deployments for both combat and peacetime. 

His education includes an MBA from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Duke University.