Rob DeMillo

CEO and Co-founder of Sophia Space, a company building modular, solar-powered orbital computing infrastructure. He began his career as a research scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and NASA/JPL, applying technology to planetary science and aviation safety research. A serial entrepreneur with 7 acquisitions and IPOs across 9 companies, he was CTO of Discovery Digital Networks (after Revision3's acquisition), CTO and co-founder of Transpera, CTO of Third Screen Media (acquired by AOL), and SVP of Mobile Technology at VeriSign (after m-Qube's acquisition).

In 2019 he became the first CTO in the 80+ year history of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), after his previous company Nimble Collective was acquired by AWS. He was named to EContent's Fabulous 15 digital media influencers in 2012 alongside Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos.