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Daynan Crull has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. In 2006, they worked as an Assistant Vice President at Bank of America. Daynan then served as Campaign Manager for Montagano for U.S. Congress in 2007. From 2009 to 2012, they worked as Director of Legislation and Policy for Council Member David Yassky at the New York City Council. In 2010, they became a Client Manager at Blue State Digital.
Crull joined the NYC Office of the Mayor in 2013, initially as Deputy Director of Outreach, Special Initiative of Rebuilding and Resiliency, and later as Senior Program Manager. From 2014 to 2018, they worked at the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications, starting as a Senior Policy Advisor and later becoming the Director of Strategy and Performance.
In 2018, Crull joined GeoPhy as a Data Scientist and then progressed to a Senior Data Scientist role. Daynan worked there until 2020. In the same year, they briefly worked as a Data Scientist at the World Bank and then as a Senior Data Scientist at New Light Technologies.
Since 2021, Crull has been actively involved as the Co-Founder and Mission Architect at Karman+. The company aims to mine Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) to provide sustainable energy and resources for the space economy. Their mission also focuses on addressing critical problems on Earth.
Daynan Crull attended DePauw University from 1999 to 2003 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. From 2015 to 2017, Daynan pursued a Master of Science degree in Urban Informatics from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
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Asteroid mining has lived at the intersection of scientific research and popular culture for decades, with as many academic papers published as there are books, TV shows and movies about it.Access to resources, with its finite nature and disparate distribution of resources, plays an essential part in the geopolitical web of power and wealth. Ithas defined economic growth to such an extent that we have been using them as primary demarcation lines and identifiers in our history, from the stone to bronze and iron age to our current silicon age. But our resources-driven growth faces a massive existential challenge, with climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource depletion demanding a complete reset. Humanity needs to shift global transportation, manufacturing, construction and energy onto a sustainable path.Expanding beyond the Kármán line is where we believe transformative future growth and innovation will be found. Recent missions by NASA (OSIRIS-REx & DART) and JAXA (Hayabusa2) have firmly pushed the idea of using space resources from academic research into commercial opportunity. We believe the Regolith Age, powered by abundant space resources, is an inevitability that we can accelerate.