# Gwynne Shotwell: person

Canonical ID: `c3db3174-5394-4283-9767-2706f3e1f8dd`

President and COO of SpaceX since 2008. Joined as employee #7 in 2002 as VP of Business Development. Widely credited as the operational and commercial backbone of SpaceX; manages launch manifests, customer relationships, and day-to-day company operations. BSc Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern; MS Applied Mathematics.

- **Nationality:** American
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [SpaceX](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/spacex.md) President and COO since 2002-01-01 (secondary-verified)

## Sources (2)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell
2. https://www.spacex.com/


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