Space Exploration (SpaceX) Org chart
This Space Exploration (SpaceX) org chart highlights the company’s organizational structure and leadership team, including key executives such as Elon Musk (Founder, CEO & CTO) , Bret Johnsen (CFO) , and Gwynne Shotwell (President & COO) . It provides a clear overview of the leadership team’s roles and how they work together to achieve organizational goals and ensure effective management across all functions.
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Space Exploration (SpaceX) Leadership Team
Executives
Profile Summary
Elon Musk
Founder, CEO & CTO
Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. As lead designer at SpaceX, Elon oversees the development of rockets and spacecraft for missions to Earth orbit and ultimately to other planets. In 2008, the SpaceX Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit, and SpaceX made further history in 2017 by re-flying both a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for the first time. Soon after, Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two, completed its first flight in 2018. In 2019, SpaceX’s crew-capable version of the Dragon spacecraft completed its first demonstration mission, and the company will fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in 2020. Building on these achievements, SpaceX is developing Starship – a fully reusable transportation system that will carry crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars and beyond – and Starlink, which will deliver high speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable. By pioneering reusable rockets, SpaceX is pursuing the long-term goal of making humans a multi-planet species by creating a self-sustaining city on Mars. Previously, Elon co-founded and sold PayPal, the world's leading Internet payment system, and Zip2, one of the first internet maps and directions services.
Bret Johnsen
CFO
Bret Johnsen is the CFO at SpaceX, overseeing the long-term financial development of the company, interfacing with the financial community and managing the company's internal financial operations. Johnsen offers more than 20 years of financial leadership experience to SpaceX, mostly in high-profile, publicly traded companies. He has served in this role since joining SpaceX in 2011. Previously, Johnsen spent nearly a decade at Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, where he helped transform the organization into a leading Fortune 500 technology company. Starting out as controller for a number of business groups within Broadcom, he quickly rose through the ranks. He ultimately was named vice president, corporate controller and principal accounting officer, overseeing an 80-member accounting organization in nine countries. After leaving Broadcom, Johnsen served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Mindspeed Technologies. In 2010 he was named CFO of the Year by the Orange County Business Journal for bringing the chip maker through the recession by cutting costs, reworking debt, selling stock and raising cash through patent sales. Johnsen holds a bachelor of science in accounting from the University of Southern California and a master of science in finance from San Diego State University. He is a certified public accountant in the state of California.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
PwC
Gwynne Shotwell
President & COO
As president and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is responsible for day-to-day operations and for managing customer and strategic relations to support company growth. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as vice president of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to more than 70 launches, representing more than $10 billion in business. She serves on the SpaceX board of directors. Before joining SpaceX, Ms. Shotwell spent more than 10 years at the Aerospace Corporation, where she held positions in space systems engineering and technology as well as project management. She was promoted to chief engineer of an MLV-class satellite program, managed a landmark study for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on commercial space transportation, and completed an extensive analysis of space policy for NASA’s future investment in space transportation. She was subsequently recruited to be director of Microcosm’s Space Systems Division, where she served on the executive committee and directed corporate business development. In 2014, Ms. Shotwell was appointed to the US Export-Import Bank’s Advisory Committee and the FAA Management Advisory Council. She has received the World Technology Award for Individual Achievement in Space, was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, and is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. SpaceX supports science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs locally as well as national engineering programs and competitions. Through leadership in both corporate and external programs, Ms. Shotwell has helped raise over $1.4 million for STEM education programs reaching thousands of students nationwide. Ms. Shotwell received, with honors, her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics, and serves on the advisory council for Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering. She has authored dozens of papers on a variety of space-related subjects.
