Andrew Benzing

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.