SpaceX CEO and Executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Elon Musk is the SpaceX's CEO. SpaceX has 9,500 employees, of which 19 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The SpaceX executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
  • 73% of the management team is White.
  • 10% of SpaceX management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Elon Musk

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Engineer

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Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around US$243 billion as of February 2022, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list.

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Bret Johnsen

Chief Financial Officer

Bret Johnsen's LinkedIn

Bret Johnsen is chief financial officer of SpaceX, overseeing the long-term financial development of the company, interfacing with the financial community and managing the company's internal financial operations. Johnsen brings 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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Gwynne E. Shotwell

President and COO

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Kimbal Musk

Board Member

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Luke Nosek

Board Member

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Steve Jurvetson

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Antonio Gracias

Board Member

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Brian Bjelde

Vice President of Human Resources

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Brian Gower

CMO

Brian Gower's LinkedIn

Brian Gower is the CMO of SpaceX. Concurrently, he serves as a Senior Consultant with Tesla, and also as a Founder and CEO of Resurgent Business Solutions (cannabis solutions), and as Founder and Director of The GowerPower Foundation (non-profit serving military veterans). Brian joined SpaceX in December 2019 from NetApp where he had served as a Principal Services Architect.

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Donald Harrison

Board Member

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Elon Musk

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Engineer

Elon Musk's LinkedIn

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around US$243 billion as of February 2022, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list.

And if you're looking for a job, here are the top jobs SpaceX is hiring right now:

  1. Mechanical Engineers
  2. Software Developers, Applications
  3. Industrial Engineers
  4. Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers
  5. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

SpaceX Board Members

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Elon Musk

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Engineer

Elon Musk's LinkedIn

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around US$243 billion as of February 2022, Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes real-time billionaires list.

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Gwynne E. Shotwell

President and COO

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Kimbal Musk

Board Member

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Luke Nosek

Board Member

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Steve Jurvetson

Board Member

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Antonio Gracias

Board Member

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Donald Harrison

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Josh Raffaelli

Board Member

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Mathew Dunn

Board Member

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SpaceX Leadership Demographics

SpaceX Gender Distribution in Management Team

  • The SpaceX executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
  • SpaceX is 14% female and 86% male company-wide.
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Male
79%
Company-wide: 86%
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Female
21%
Company-wide: 14%

SpaceX Executives by Race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among SpaceX executive officers is White.
  • 73% of the management team is White.
  • 11% of SpaceX's management is Black or African American.
  • 10% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 50% of employees are White.
  • 26% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of employees are Asian.
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