Government Funding Channels for the Space Defense Industry

With 20 years of in-house general counsel experience, Randy Segal brings an individual perspective to every matter she handles, both as your outside counsel and as someone who has walked in your shoes. With a focus on satellite, wireless, drone, and technology transactions, Randy provides commercially practical solutions in industries where technological change is ever-present. Randy’s practice often involves multi-level chess games, where every move needs to be considered from a multitude of angles to be successful.

As a result, Randy’s practice is reflected in three segments. First, as co-leader of the Space and Satellite practice, Randy has handled many types of transactions, from day-to-day matters to the most complex international transactions for industry operators, investors, and technology providers. She has been involved in taking companies public, advising on acquisitions, divestitures, and complex cross-border joint ventures, as well as large satellite system development, deployments and funding.

Second, as an advisor to technology investors and their portfolio companies, Randy has advised on transactions focused on big data analytics, IT, wireless systems, spectrum licenses, environmental analytics, wireless proximity analysis, drone technology, terrestrial positioning, and other innovative technologies.

Third, Randy provides “strand of pearls” advice to global clients, working seamlessly with our international offices to develop familiar, comfortable and “right-sized” solutions. Randy’s extensive cross-border experience has resulted in an extensive tool-kit of resolutions for the most complex of legal regimes. Randy’s transactional and advisory experience is both deep and broad, working throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East and on the most complex of international programs and legal issues.

Devin is the Director of the NGA Commercial Operations Group, where he leads a group in solving national security mission challenges with innovative commercial GEOINT solutions while leveraging the power of commercial capabilities to achieve GEOINT supremacy, diplomacy, and sustainability.

Previously, as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF) and member of the civic tech community, Devin spent four years leading senior level
technology strategy across government in service to the public, with abfocus on technology and innovation in national security. As the Chief Architect for the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Global Analytics Platform (GAP), Devin partnered with the GAP Director
and team to develop and execute strategy for leveraging data as a strategic asset. In his first assignment as a PIF, Devin worked closely with a diverse team of innovators leading digital transformation across the Department of the Navy, focusing on cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to modernize legacy systems.

Prior to PIF, as Director of Product Management for Orbital Insight, Devin led product management for the entire Orbital Insight global public sector business, encompassing a suite of cutting edge products focused on data processing and labeling for advanced applications of computer vision, computer vision algorithm development, and large-scale geospatial analytics in both cloud-hosted and on-premises compute environments, providing integrated, end-to-end capabilities.

As a technology investor with In-Q-Tel, Devin managed a $60M+ portfolio of investments in 30+ companies spanning the entire funding lifecycle from seed to late stage, including several successful exits, and helped found the In-Q-Tel commercial space market team, focused on developing strategic guidance for emerging trends in commercial space.

Devin has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and an M.S. in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College.

Timur Davis is an Investment Director at Munich Re Ventures where he leads the ClimateTech and Future of Transportation sectors, investing in companies solving some of the biggest challenges facing the world. These include strengthening climate resilience, improving sustainability, enabling the energy transition, and creating new paradigms for the movement of people, goods, and data across all domains of transportation.

 Timur has been a venture capital investor for over a decade, having previously worked at Canapi Ventures, Live Oak Ventures, and Samsung Ventures. Before VC, Timur was a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

 Timur lives in San Francisco and holds a PhD from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University.

Tom Gillespie serves as a Partner on In-Q-Tel’s Investment Team and as Investment Lead for In-Q-Tel’s Field Technologies Practice, where he is responsible for identifying technologies that address challenges faced by the Intelligence Community. He is the Investment Team partner associated with IQT’s commercial space initiative, CosmiQ Works, and he has led a number of IQT’s investments in commercial space ventures, including launch vehicles, small satellite constellations, and space situational awareness. In addition, he has led IQT investments in the areas of robotics, materials, power sources, and autonomous systems, as well as several analytics investments.

Prior to IQT, Gillespie was a Strategy Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, serving clients in the financial services, aerospace, and government (national security and defense) sectors. Previously, he co-founded LaunchFuel, a venture commercialization firm that created, developed, and advised early-stage technology businesses; Gillespie also directed numerous business and technology strategy projects with Global 2000 clients for AT&T Solutions. Earlier experience includes positions in international privatization and the United States Congress, where he focused on financial services, telecommunications, space, and foreign affairs issue areas.

Gillespie earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Lusczakoski is a Vice President at AE Industrial and is primarily focused on financial modeling, due diligence, executing new investments, and monitoring portfolio investments. Mr. Lusczakoski currently serves on the Board of Directors of AE Industrial portfolio company, Calca Solutions. Mr. Lusczakoski brings over seven years of aerospace industry experience to AE Industrial. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2018, Mr. Lusczakoski was a Lead Engineer in the Program Development group at Williams International, where he led multiple integration programs for UAVs, military trainer aircraft and business jets.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan – Ross School of Business.

Ric Mommer leads commercial engagement and investor relations activities for DIU’s space portfolio, working with non-traditional companies, venture capitalists and private equity investors. His specialties include telecommunications, advanced computing, stored energy and propulsion.  Prior to DIU, Ric has worked at Apple, Philips Electronics, Nokia and Intel Corporation where he held leadership roles in Global Sales, Business Development and Corporate Development.  Ric is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Business.