Speaker Biography

Daniel Faber

CEO

Orbit Fab

Daniel Faber has over 20 years of space technology leadership, building and launching a dozen satellites for asteroid searches, environmental monitoring, telecommunications and human habitation. As a serial entrepreneur, his first company developed a unique mining instrumentation technology utilizing gamma ray spectroscopy, following which he worked on nuclear fusion reactors and then Antarctic communications. As CEO of Deep Space Industries he secured millions in financing and grew sales from zero to nearly $10 million, successfully changing global perceptions and regulations around space resources. Daniel has an engineering background and MBA’s from both UCLA Anderson and National University of Singapore. He now leads Orbit Fab, a two-year-old venture backed start-up in Silicon Valley that has already deployed its first two propellant tanker test-bed in Earth orbit for propellant transfer trials and recently became the first private company to resupply the International Space Station with water.