CEO and Chief Architect, OffWorld
Jim is CEO and Chief Architect of OffWorld. He has undertaken leadership roles in innovation in multidisciplinary areas such as aerospace engineering, space systems, extreme environment mining and autonomous robotics. OffWorld is the culmination of over a decade of architectural planning and development of machine intelligent industrial robots operating in extreme environments for mining and construction without putting people in harm’s way and minimizing climate impact by autonomously operating fully electric underground mines.
Jim worked on satellite design and launch of over a dozen spacecraft, worked extensively on planetary mining and studied aerospace engineering, spacecraft engineering and physics at University of London, Surrey University, and Aachen Technical University.