Archangel Lightworks
Richard J. has a diverse work experience spanning several industries and roles. Richard is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Archangel Lightworks, a position they have held since February 2021. Prior to this, they served as the Special Projects and Partnerships Manager at Archangel Lightworks from November 2019 to February 2021.
Alongside their role at Archangel Lightworks, Richard J. also served as a Director at Preceptech Ltd from August 2020 to October 2022.
In 2020, they worked at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford as a Research Assistant for the Oxford Space Initiative (OSI). This research group focused on studying the intersection of innovation, social science research, and space. Richard'srole lasted from June 2020 to July 2021.
In 2019, Richard J. was an MBA Intern at Satellite Applications Catapult from June to October.
From 2015 to 2018, they worked as a Consultant at Social Ventures Australia (SVA), where they contributed to the organization's mission of alleviating disadvantage and promoting thriving communities through various initiatives and advocacy efforts.
Richard J. has prior experience at IBM, where they held multiple roles, including Managing Consultant from April 2014 to July 2015, Senior Consultant from August 2011 to March 2014, and Consultant/Senior Consultant from August 2009 to July 2011.
Before IBM, they worked as a Sustainable Business Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development/Green Plus in 2008. Richard also had brief stints as a Project Assistant at EASTWEST Public Relations and as a Project Assistant in the Commercialization Department at RTI International, both in 2008.
Richard J. completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Entrepreneurship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which they attended from 2004 to 2008. Richard then pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a focus on Responsible Business at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, from 2018 to 2019. In 2020, Richard briefly attended the International Space University, although no specific degree or field of study is mentioned.
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Archangel Lightworks
Archangel Lightworks is a laser communications company building high-volume, secure, wireless technology to create the space-enabled networks of the future. Today, space and terrestrial networks are not well-connected leading to insecure, insufficient, and vulnerable infrastructure. Nearly 3 billion people are unconnected and many more are under-connected. Subsea cables, which form the backbone of global network infrastructure, are at risk from climate disaster and bad actors. Links between satellites, which offer an opportunity for resilient connectivity, and the ground are reliant on radio, which is bandwidth constrained, finite and not secure. Archangel Lightworks was set up to solve the space-ground connectivity problem. Wireless laser communications (lasercom) technology offers new solutions; however, adoption of the technology has been slow due to availability concerns, lack of interoperability standards, difficulties associated with lasercom on the move, and high production costs. Our tech solves these problems. We are driving down the size, weight, power & cost (SWaP-C) of optical ground equipment to make space-ground lasercom available and affordable. Our core product, TERRA-M is a miniature optical ground station which is approximately the size of a mini fridge. Compared to traditional networks such as radio, the TERRA-M allows more licence-free data transferred at low probability of detection (LPD) and low probability of interception (LPI). TERRA-M brings deployable, resilient connectivity to wherever it is needed, solving some of Earth’s most critical problems from economic inclusion to climate change. Archangel Lightworks is based in Oxford, UK and Archangel Lightworks USA is based in Orlando, Florida.