
Advancing the National Imperative
We are unwavering in our unique role and commitment to developing our nation’s hypersonic capabilities through innovative flight test programs.
Aerospace Pioneers
Our manufacturing and testing facilities are located in the heart of the Mojave Desert, the epicenter of civilian aircraft development.


Meet Our Team
Learn more about our team of over 300 + engineers and technicians and learn more about our cultural foundation as builders who enjoy rapidly creating cutting-edge technologies.
Enabling the Future, Together
The Stratolaunch team brings together many of the nation’s top minds in aerospace and defense.
Executive Team

Zachary Krevor, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and President
Zachary Krevor, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and President
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
Chief Product Officer
Aaron Cassebeer
Chief Product Officer
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.

Andrew Benzing
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Benzing
Chief Financial Officer
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.

Allison Cash
Vice President, Strategy & Solutions
Leadership Team

Brandon Wood
Vice President, Executive Operations
Brandon Wood
Vice President, Executive Operations
Brandon Wood is the Vice President of Manufacturing and Operations at Stratolaunch. He has been developing prototype aerospace vehicles for nearly 30 years spanning a variety of size, speed, and survivability requirements.
Brandon started his career as a US Air Force Developmental Engineering Officer, first assigned to the Hypersonic Technology (HyTech) Program at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He later developed advanced satellite capabilities for the National Recognizance Office (NRO) and ended his military career leading the flight test of prototype aerospace vehicles vital to national security.
In 2007, Brandon joined Scaled Composites LLC and led a prototype vehicle manufacturing program and served as a flight test engineer on Proteus and White Knight experimental test aircraft supporting multiple payloads and customers. In 2011, he joined Stratolaunch’s Roc carrier aircraft development program as the Integrated Engineering and Analysis Lead, later becoming Test Lead and serving as Test Conductor for first flight.
Brandon holds a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Aero/Astro Engineering and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Fedors
Chief Test Pilot
David Fedors
Chief Test Pilot
David C. Fedors is a test pilot with a career spanning the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and private aerospace industry. A native of Altadena, California, Fedors currently serves as Chief Test Pilot at Stratolaunch, where he leads flight test operations for the world’s largest aircraft, the Scaled Composites Model 351, supporting hypersonic flight test missions.
Prior to Stratolaunch, Fedors was a research test pilot at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, where he flew a wide array of aircraft including the Gulfstream III, DC-8 airborne science laboratory, T-34, C-17, and SOFIA—the modified Boeing 747SP astronomical observatory.
His USAF assignments at Edwards Air Force Base include the 452nd and 418th Flight Test Squadrons, testing the KC-135, KC-10, C-130, and B747. He retired as a colonel from the Air Force Reserve in 2015.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master’s in electrical engineering from Fresno State and is an associate fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. He is active in general aviation.






