Dr. Casey is a principal at NewCap Partners and Co-Founder of the Silicon Valley Space Center and president of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Space and Satellite Professionals International. He has served over two decades as a NASA astrophysicist and airborne astronomer. He is a co-author of numerous publications and has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Chicago and dual MBAs from the Berkeley Haas and Columbia Schools of Business.