Mr. Graven is a Caltech alum and CEO of Cateni, an aerospace R&D company that does work for NASA, the Air Force, DARPA, and commercial customers. Cateni’s work focuses on spacecraft avionics, modular architectures, space systems economics and guidance, navigation and control technologies.

He is currently serving on the board of directors for Caltech’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering & Applied Science and Economics from Caltech ‘85, a Master of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford ‘87, and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government ’94 where he studied science and technology policy and national security policy.

His talk will cover the twists and turns of his career thus far, lessons learned and stories from the trenches…