SpaceX
Bret Johnsen is the CFO at SpaceX, overseeing the long-term financial development of the company, interfacing with the financial community and managing the company's internal financial operations. Johnsen offers more than 20 years of financial leadership experience to SpaceX, mostly in high-profile, publicly traded companies. He has served in this role since joining SpaceX in 2011.
Previously, Johnsen spent nearly a decade at Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, where he helped transform the organization into a leading Fortune 500 technology company. Starting out as controller for a number of business groups within Broadcom, he quickly rose through the ranks. He ultimately was named vice president, corporate controller and principal accounting officer, overseeing an 80-member accounting organization in nine countries.
After leaving Broadcom, Johnsen served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Mindspeed Technologies. In 2010 he was named CFO of the Year by the Orange County Business Journal for bringing the chip maker through the recession by cutting costs, reworking debt, selling stock and raising cash through patent sales.
Johnsen holds a bachelor of science in accounting from the University of Southern California and a master of science in finance from San Diego State University. He is a certified public accountant in the state of California.
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SpaceX
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which historically has flown only once. Compare that to a commercial airliner – each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9 but can fly multiple times per day and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime. Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce the cost of traveling to space by a hundredfold. While most rockets are designed to burn up on reentry, SpaceX rockets can not only withstand reentry but can also successfully land back on Earth and refly again. SpaceX’s family of Falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. Depending on the performance required for the mission, Falcon lands on one of our autonomous spaceport droneships out on the ocean or one of our landing zones near our launch pads.