Will Marshall
Co-Founder & CEO @ Planet
About
Will Marshall is Co-Founder & CEO of Planet Labs PBC. Will is a scientist-turned-entrepreneur with extensive experience building and leading teams in the technology space, at NASA and now at Planet, having grown the team from the garage to a company of over 600 people. He oversees the vision, product and business strategy - carrying out Planet’s mission, as written into the Public Benefit Corporation charter, to accelerate humanity toward a more sustainable and secure world. Will was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serves on the board of the Open Lunar Foundation. Prior to Planet, Will was a Scientist at NASA where he helped formulate the Small Spacecraft Office, worked on a number of missions including LCROSS, LADEE and PhoneSat and did research on orbital space debris remediation. Will holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford and a Masters in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University and Harvard.
United States
San Francisco
Aviation & Aerospace
Space Systems, Physics, Systems Engineering, Simulations, Aerospace, Matlab, Spacecraft, Science
Experience

Scientist
Developing low cost satellites and systems to remediate orbital space debris via USRA. Co-I, PhoneSat mission (ultra-low cost satellite with bus based on a smartphone) Co-I, LightForce (remediation of orbital space debris using photon pressure to nudge debris so as to prevent debris-debris collisions and thus slow the Kessler cascade) Science Team, LCROSS (lunar impactor mission which found large quantities of water on the Moon). System's Engineer, LADEE (lunar orbitor mission) System's Engineer, Common Spacecraft Bus (modular planetary spacecraft) System's Engineer, Hover Test Vehicle (ground-based test vehicle for lunar descent and landing)

Chair
Space Generation Advisory Council

Summer Intern
NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center
Huntsville, Alabama Area
Fusion Propulsion

Summer Intern
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Worked on the KidSat project -- taking images from the Space Shuttle.
Education
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