LeoLabs CEO and leadership

John designed the critical data collection systems for 14 satellites and 6 radars. His hardware is delivering critical scientific and safety data for the space industry today.

John Buonocore is Chief Engineer and cofounder of LeoLabs. He leads the hardware design team responsible for the development, construction and deployment of LeoLabs’ worldwide network of radars. He and the team are continuously innovating in order to maintain the highest standards of performance and reliability.

Prior to LeoLabs, he worked for SRI International, a not-for-profit research laboratory headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Throughout a 33-year career at SRI, John participated in numerous remote-sensing projects. Most notable are his contributions to HF and UHF radar designs in support of research campaigns in the Equatorial and Polar Regions. John’s research in Ultra-Wideband radar technology and development of ground and airborne sensor platforms have been used in the detection of land mines and IEDs in the battlefield. Included in John’s radar work at SRI was his participation in the design, construction and operation of the AMISR Phased Array Radar. He was a key contributor throughout three separate deployments of this giant 4096 element 2-Dimensional system. Thirteen years later, the system, located in Alaska (PFISR), is still in operation and part of LeoLab’s global radar network.

In the latter part of John’s career at SRI, he developed specialized hardware for spaceborne sensors. This included power systems, antennas, RF receivers, RF transmitters and microcontroller design work. A majority of the space work was focused on payload designs for Cubesat vehicles. One significant contribution was the design of a high dynamic range and fast recovery UHF receiver used onboard the RAX1 and RAX2 satellites. The RAX program was the first NSF-funded Cubesat launch in the history of the US National Science Foundation. The launches were successful, and the final deployment of RAX2 yielded good data and an overall positive experimental outcome. In all, John has been involved in 8 different Cubesat projects, 6 of which have been successfully deployed to orbit and 2 of which never received a launch opportunity.

In addition to Cubesat work, John also made a contribution to the Beacon Transmitter hardware onboard the Formosat7/Cosmic-2 satellites launched in 2019. Six of these satellites were successfully deployed from a Space-X Falcon Heavy rocket, and all are currently in operation. John is co-author on publications related to The Frequency Agile Radar (a multi-use, back-scatter HF instrument), Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR), and RAX Cubesat development. He is principal inventor on two patents related to Cubesats and co-inventor on multiple IP related to LeoLabs tracking and radar technology. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University.

Eileen Treanor brings more than two decades of financial leadership to her role as CFO of Leo Labs, including deep SaaS experience and an extensive background in corporate finance, strategic and financial planning, tax and investor relations. Eileen brings a unique perspective on Leo Labs growth and scale opportunities in the evolving Space economy.

Eileen Treanor is the CFO of Leo Labs bringing more than 20 years of experience to her role. She previosuly served as the CFO of Inkling, a leading SaaS Knowledge Platform where she led the Business Operations of the business. Prior to Inkling, Eileen was the CFO of Lever, the SaaS Talent Acquisition Suite and previously held senior finance roles at Wikia, Virgin America and Yahoo!. Eileen completed her undergraduate degree at DeMontfort University and earned her MBA at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She is a certified public accountant in California, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland and a member of the Institute of Taxation of Ireland.

Matthew is an expert in Physics, Signal Processing, and Statistical Analysis. He joined LeoLabs in 2018. He is passionate about sustainability, both on Earth and in Space, and he’s convinced that the only way to achieve both is through scalable and robust solutions.

Matthew Stevenson leads LeoLabs’ Engineering, which has responsibility for LeoLabs’ radar sites, data analysis, orbit determination, and platform. In all aspects, Matthew emphasizes the essential need for statistically rigorous design and analysis.

Matthew holds a BSc in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Victoria and an MS and PhD in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. During his PhD, he contributed to advances in the study of cosmological foreground emission. This included work on the building and commissioning of a radio polarimeter for mapping the Milky Way Galaxy’s synchrotron emission, as well as theoretical analysis on the radio emission from interstellar organic molecules.

Between graduate school and LeoLabs, Matthew produced algorithms for interference mitigation in mass-produced sensors for consumer electronics. In this work, he recognized the need to demonstrate rigorous performance on a statistical level, providing confidence that billions of shipped units would perform at the high level that consumers expect.

John designed the critical data collection systems for 14 satellites and 6 radars. His hardware is delivering critical scientific and safety data for the space industry today.

John Buonocore is Chief Engineer and cofounder of LeoLabs. He leads the hardware design team responsible for the development, construction and deployment of LeoLabs’ worldwide network of radars. He and the team are continuously innovating in order to maintain the highest standards of performance and reliability.

Prior to LeoLabs, he worked for SRI International, a not-for-profit research laboratory headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Throughout a 33-year career at SRI, John participated in numerous remote-sensing projects. Most notable are his contributions to HF and UHF radar designs in support of research campaigns in the Equatorial and Polar Regions. John’s research in Ultra-Wideband radar technology and development of ground and airborne sensor platforms have been used in the detection of land mines and IEDs in the battlefield. Included in John’s radar work at SRI was his participation in the design, construction and operation of the AMISR Phased Array Radar. He was a key contributor throughout three separate deployments of this giant 4096 element 2-Dimensional system. Thirteen years later, the system, located in Alaska (PFISR), is still in operation and part of LeoLab’s global radar network.

In the latter part of John’s career at SRI, he developed specialized hardware for spaceborne sensors. This included power systems, antennas, RF receivers, RF transmitters and microcontroller design work. A majority of the space work was focused on payload designs for Cubesat vehicles. One significant contribution was the design of a high dynamic range and fast recovery UHF receiver used onboard the RAX1 and RAX2 satellites. The RAX program was the first NSF-funded Cubesat launch in the history of the US National Science Foundation. The launches were successful, and the final deployment of RAX2 yielded good data and an overall positive experimental outcome. In all, John has been involved in 8 different Cubesat projects, 6 of which have been successfully deployed to orbit and 2 of which never received a launch opportunity.

In addition to Cubesat work, John also made a contribution to the Beacon Transmitter hardware onboard the Formosat7/Cosmic-2 satellites launched in 2019. Six of these satellites were successfully deployed from a Space-X Falcon Heavy rocket, and all are currently in operation. John is co-author on publications related to The Frequency Agile Radar (a multi-use, back-scatter HF instrument), Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR), and RAX Cubesat development. He is principal inventor on two patents related to Cubesats and co-inventor on multiple IP related to LeoLabs tracking and radar technology. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University.

Matthew is an expert in Physics, Signal Processing, and Statistical Analysis. He joined LeoLabs in 2018. He is passionate about sustainability, both on Earth and in Space, and he’s convinced that the only way to achieve both is through scalable and robust solutions.

Matthew Stevenson leads LeoLabs’ Engineering, which has responsibility for LeoLabs’ radar sites, data analysis, orbit determination, and platform. In all aspects, Matthew emphasizes the essential need for statistically rigorous design and analysis.

Matthew holds a BSc in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Victoria and an MS and PhD in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. During his PhD, he contributed to advances in the study of cosmological foreground emission. This included work on the building and commissioning of a radio polarimeter for mapping the Milky Way Galaxy’s synchrotron emission, as well as theoretical analysis on the radio emission from interstellar organic molecules.

Between graduate school and LeoLabs, Matthew produced algorithms for interference mitigation in mass-produced sensors for consumer electronics. In this work, he recognized the need to demonstrate rigorous performance on a statistical level, providing confidence that billions of shipped units would perform at the high level that consumers expect.