Payam Banazadeh is CEO and Founder of Capella Space, a Silicon Valley company building the largest constellation of commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in order to provide persistent monitoring services of anywhere in the globe. Capella Space is also the first American company to launch a commercial SAR satellite.
Payam holds a business/management degree from Stanford University and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in aerospace engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to starting Capella Space Payam was a project manager and flight systems engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and has been awarded NASA Mariner Award, NASA Discovery Award, and NASA Formulation Award. Payam was selected to be on the prestigious “Forbes 30 under 30” list in 2017 and Capella has been recognized by New York Times, Bloomberg, and Inc. magazine as one of the top 25 disruptive companies in the world.
Outside of Capella, Payam spends his time thinking about the impact of technology on society, economy, politics, and human behavior. He is an advocate of raising awareness around the volatility of life on earth and the responsibilities of technologists to think pro-actively about their work and its intended and unintended consequences.
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