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Chris C. Kemp | |
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| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Employer | Astra |
| Title | Founder, Chairman and CEO |
Chris C. Kemp (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur who, along with Dr. Adam London,[1] founded Astra, a space technology firm based in California, in 2016.[2] He served as the chief information officer (CIO) for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California,[3] and as NASA's first chief technology officer (CTO) for information technology.[4] While at NASA, Kemp partnered with Google and Microsoft and helped in the creation of Google Moon and Google Mars.[5] He worked with the White House to develop the cloud computing strategy for the United States Federal Government and co-founded OpenStack, an open-source software project for cloud computing.[6][7] He was also one of the founders of Nebula, a company that from 2011 to 2015, worked to commercialise the technology.[8]
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- ^ "NASA Names Chief Technology Officer for IT". NASA. May 6, 2010. Archived from the original on November 8, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
- ^ "With NASA, Google Expands it Realm to the Moon and Mars". NYT. December 19, 2006.
- ^ "Chris Kemp Steps Down as CEO of Nebula, The OpenStack Startup". TechCrunch. September 13, 2013.
- ^ "The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation". TechCrunch. October 19, 2020.
- ^ "About Nebula, Inc. Management Team". Nebula, Inc. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014.