Dave Beck, M.B.A.
Dave Beck, M.B.A. is Principal of SpaceTech Limited, Strategic Advisor and U.S. Space Business Consultant at NordSpace, and Founding Council Chair of Secure Space at Space Rising. A former Branch Chief at the United States Space Force, he brings more than 30 years of experience across aerospace, defense, transportation, advanced manufacturing, and supply chain resiliency.
Dave has advised NordSpace, the Ontario company building the Tundra launch vehicle and the Atlantic Spaceport Complex in Newfoundland and Labrador, since 2025. He sits on the Board of Directors of Space Innovation Canada, a nonprofit developing a Prairie-based suborbital test platform for space and defense technologies, and is Managing Director of DefenceWorks Ltd, a Toronto company bridging commercial and defense work for Canada's industrial base.
Since 2024, Dave has been a Board Advisor to Kronos Fusion Energy, a developer of carbon-free fusion generators, and since 2022, a Technical Advisor to Bravado Engineering. He has served on the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown University Space Initiative since 2021 and on the Executive Board of AI-security company Averecion since 2026. He also advises Lyra, ItsWare, AEON Space, American DeepTech, Lola Vision Systems, and Matr Ventures, sits on the Homelessness Initiative Council of ULI Los Angeles, and has been an investor in ChargerHelp since 2020.
From 2025 to 2026, Dave directed the Center for Industrial Innovation & Systems at the Institute for Digital Asset Innovation (IDAI), having served on its Executive Committee from 2023. There he hosted the Supplying Space series, interviewing our Zaheer Ali and Saleem Miyan of Max Space. Watch How to Get Involved in the Expanding Space Economy. He was interviewed by our Angelica Sirotin for Sirotin Intelligence and by Kevin Jackson on Digital Ventures. Watch How Digital Assets Will Power the Space Economy.
Between 2023 and 2025, Dave held a series of leadership posts at Space Systems Command of the United States Space Force. He led business intelligence and capability assessment branches, served as acting Deputy Division Chief for Enabling Capabilities, and in 2024 became Branch Chief for Space Industrial Base and Supply Chain. He then led the Space Access, Mobility and Logistics branch and, in 2025, directed standards integration for the Assured Access to Space program offices. In September 2025, the United States Air Force recognized him with its Meritorious Service Award (Civilian). Read his Space Force biography.
From 2024 to 2025, Dave was a government representative on the Executive Committee of America Makes, the national additive manufacturing innovation institute, which named him a 2025 Ambassador. Read America Makes Honors 2025 Award Recipients During MMX.
He spoke on supply chain challenges at the NewSpace Nexus State of the Space Industrial Base 2024 conference, on rocket manufacturing at the IDGA Advanced Manufacturing for Defense Summit in 2025, and at the TechConnect Space Industry and Government Summit and Expo 2025.
Between 2020 and 2023, Dave served the Department of Defense at Naval Sea Systems Command as a program manager for undersea warfare systems, including the Submarine Launched Unmanned Aerial System used on 688i and Virginia-class submarines. In parallel he was Founding Partner of HUB Venture Partners from 2019 to 2023, Chief Technology Officer of Autonomous Directive Ventures from 2020 to 2022, and a Lead Mentor at Techstars Washington DC from 2022 to 2023. He founded the technology holding company Cole Chamberlain Holdings in 2008.
Dave's federal transportation career began in 2013 at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Senior Vehicle Safety Regulatory Engineer at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, serving as technical contact for the 2015 final rule on rear license plate mounting under FMVSS No. 108. Read Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment.
From 2016 to 2017 he was a Business Manager and systems engineering contracts analyst at the Federal Aviation Administration, supporting ADS-B and ACAS X programs. Between 2017 and 2019, he was a Senior Staff Consultant at Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi).
Earlier, working on contract, Dave was a Senior Engineering Program Manager for turbo systems at Honeywell in 2012, a Commercial Program Manager and Principal Engineer for auxiliary power units at Pratt & Whitney from 2009 to 2010, and a Commercial Program Manager and Chief Engineer on the F136 Joint Strike Fighter engine program for GE Aviation from 2008 to 2009. Between 1991 and 1997, he served in the United States Marine Corps as a lead noncommissioned officer, including during Operation Desert Storm.
Dave earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1996 from The University of Southern Mississippi and his M.B.A. in Marketing in 2004 from the University of Phoenix. He holds certificates from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Dave has served on Selective Service System local boards in Maryland and, since 2021, the District of Columbia. He reviews proposals for the National Science Foundation and CRDF Global and sat on the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships selection committee from 2015 to 2018.
He has judged the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair since 2015 and the GoFly Prize, held board roles with the INCOSE Washington Metro Area chapter, the SAE International Washington DC Section, and the MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington, D.C. & Baltimore, and contributes to the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities.
Visit his LinkedIn profile, SpaceTech Limited page, and GTC 360° Advisors profile.