it’s the entrepreneurs who will use the commercial platforms to build the bridge to the next stage.”
The CEO is actually relatively new to his current role. When we spoke, Bhatia told me it was only his fourth week on the job after replacing the company’s co-founder Dr. Kam Ghaffarian as chief executive. (Ghaffarian continues to serve as the company’s executive chairman.)
But Bhatia — who was previously an executive at Google Cloud — had already spent four years as the company’s chief revenue officer. While his career wasn’t particularly space-focused before joining Axiom Space, he said that since he was younger, “when I was daydreaming, it was always about space.”
And like any good space company CEO, Bhatia has hopes of eventually traveling to the final frontier himself.
“I would love to go,” he told me. “I have no doubt that we will all go.”
