Kareem Badaruddin is the Mission Manager of the Voyager Interstellar Mission. He has been at JPL since 1994 and has served in line management as well as roles on Cassini, Dawn, SMAP, and various proposals and costing exercises. Kareem has an extensive background in flight system testbeds and in-flight anomaly investigation and resolution. He has demonstrated strong technical leadership in addressing serious anomalies that could have resulted in the loss of a spacecraft. He was fortunate to rely on the exceptional skill and creativity of the Voyager flight team as well as the expert JPL anomaly teams.

Chris Mattmann is UCLA’s inaugural chief data and artificial intelligence officer. The position is the first of its kind at any University of California campus and one of just a few at universities in the U.S. Chris joins UCLA from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he was the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer. Chris has an established track record of conducting award-winning innovative use of technology and data throughout his career. As a Principal Scientist at JPL, he created the next-generation data processing systems used in NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory and other earth science missions. Chris’ work has been funded by NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and private industry. He also contributed to open-source technology development and was a member of the Board of Directors at the Apache Software Foundation (2013-18).

Adam Thurn is the Chief Engineer for Space Missions at Anduril Industries focusing on providing technical oversight and direction in advanced space capabilities for the organization. Prior to joining Anduril, Adam served as the VP of Engineering for Terran Orbital and Tyvak overseeing all engineering functions for the various spacecraft missions including NASA's CAPSTONE and the SDA's Tranche 0 and Tranche 1 Transport Layer. He also served as a Spacecraft Mechanism Engineer while working for the Naval Research Laboratory and holds several patents across reusable burn wire release mechanisms and fluid transfer mechanisms for space applications. Adam holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.