Virgin Galactic Announces Key Leadership Appointments

Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 1, 2021--Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE), a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company, today announced the appointments of  Doug Ahrens as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Swami Iyer as President of Aerospace Systems and Stephen Justice as its Vice President of Engineering.

Doug Ahrens is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of significant global experience managing financial operations and strategy at public and privately-held companies within complex technology manufacturing environments, including rapidly growing companies.

Swami Iyer  has over 20 years of experience in commercial and highly classified aerospace, defense and cyber industries. He will lead the engineering teams, designers, technicians, and support teams who are building the fleet of vehicles and designing the future opportunities that underpin our business. 

Stephen Justice joins with four decades of vast technical experience in defense aerospace, having spent four decades at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. He will lead and grow a world class engineering team supporting our future spaceship development, Propulsion, and Mothership programs, as well as our longer-term efforts around high-speed point-to-point travel.