Gwynne Shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX and is a member of the Board of Directors. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to more than 50 launches. In 2013, Shotwell was elected to AIAA’s honorable grade of Fellow and in 2014, Shotwell was appointed to the EXIM Bank's Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Federal Aviation Administration Management Advisory Council.   Shotwell received, with honors, her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, and currently serves on the Advisory Council for Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering.