Blue Origin CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of Blue Origin?

The CEO of Blue Origin is Bob Smith.

Q: Who is the founder of Blue Origin?

Jeffrey Bezos founded Blue Origin.

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Blue Origin CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Bob Smith is the Blue Origin's CEO. Blue Origin has 3,500 employees, of which 13 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Blue Origin executive team is 23% female and 77% male.
63% of the management team is White.
16% of Blue Origin management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Bob Smith

CEO

Jeffrey Bezos

Founder

Bretton Alexander

Vice President

Dan Christiansen

Board Member

Susan Knapp

Chief Financial Officer

Susan Knapp is the Chief Financial Officer at Blue Origin. Before joining in 2018, Knapp was a Vice President of Business Management at Northrop Grumman.

Will Longman

Chief Information Security Officer

Will Longman is the Chief Information Security Officer at Blue Origin. Will has over 20 years of experience in successfully empowering organizations through strategic leadership and tactical excellence in security governance, risk management, and compliance programs.

Brent Sherwood

Senior Vice President

Chad Schepel

BE-3U Chief Engineer

Experienced aerospace engineer with proven capabilities ranging across rocket engine and launch vehicle design and development. Demonstrated ability to efficiently design and deliver hardware for demanding environments. Proven ability to hire talented engineers and build effective teams to tackle these challenges.

Specific experience includes:

Launch vehicle design and development with a focus on systems engineering, requirements development, and risk management.

Turbomachinery design and development focused on rocket engine turbopumps, both storables and cryogenic propellants. Experience includes rotordynamics, rotating seals, secondary flows, balancing, tolerance stacks, and assembly. Specific experience with axial turbine design and layout including sizing and aerodynamic blading.

Overall rocket engine experience includes combustion devices design and development with regeneratively cooled hardware as well as ceramic matrix composites (CMC's). Experience also includes design and development of cyrogenic valves.

Design capabilities including CAD and modeling (Creo/Pro-Engineer), assemblies, drawings, and GD&T. Demonstrated ability to take hardware from concepts thru fabrication and assembly.

Development experience includes test stand component selection and build-up as well as test article integration, setup, and instrumentation. Demonstrated ability to generate P&ID's, review systems for safety and operability, and creation and review of test procedures. Experience with data reduction, data analysis scripts, and post-test data review.

Christopher Jaeger

Chief Engineer, New Shepard

Christopher Jaeger is a Chief Engineer, New Shepard at Blue Origin and is based in Kirkland, Washington. He has worked as Sr. Mechanical Engineer at QUANTUM FUEL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES WORLDWIDE INC., Detail Specialist at Clean Ride, and Data Acquisition Sqecialist at Furniture Row Racing. Christopher studied at University of Colorado Boulder between 2004 and 2008.

Linda Mills

Vice President

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Name & TitleBio

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Founder

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Name & TitleBio

Dan Christiansen

Board Member

Blue Origin leadership demographics

Blue Origin gender distribution in management team

The Blue Origin executive team is 23% female and 77% male.
Blue Origin is 20% female and 80% male company-wide.

Male

77%

Company-wide: 80%

Female

23%

Company-wide: 20%

Blue Origin executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Blue Origin executive officers is White.
63% of the management team is White.
16% of Blue Origin's management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
70% of employees are White.
11% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
8% of employees are Black or African American.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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