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BOARD CHAIR

Jackie Karceski LINKEDIN

Jackie Karceski is a board director, chair, investor, CPA, and former CEO, CFO, CIO, and CTO with more than 35 years of experience guiding organizations through growth, transformation, and change. She helps boards and executive teams allocate capital effectively, manage risk, and build long-term enterprise value.

As an active investor and strategic advisor, Jackie evaluates opportunities at the intersection of market disruption, artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and sustainability. She connects emerging technologies and market trends to practical decisions about capital allocation, competitive advantage, and shareholder value.

Her leadership spans finance, technology, operations, cybersecurity, digital transformation, governance, strategic partnerships, and M&A. Known for her strategic perspective, Jackie helps boards and investors anticipate market shifts, assess emerging risks and opportunities, and position organizations for sustainable growth.

Jackie holds an MBA from Santa Clara University; a Certificate in International Economics & Public Policy from Harvard University; and a B.A. in Political Economy and Accounting from UC Berkeley. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the NACD.DC® credential.

FOUNDER & PRESIDENT

L. Barton Womack Jr. LINKEDIN

L. Barton Womack Jr. is the founder and inventor of the company. A futurist, investor, and serial entrepreneur, he has decades of experience building businesses across multiple industries. He previously founded Eden Grow Systems and invented its first product, the LifePod. At Eden, he applied research from NASA’s Controlled Ecological Life Support System program to food-production technology, drawing on assistance from scientists who worked on the program and recruiting former NASA plant research director Gary Stutte to lead research and development. He brings deep expertise in product development, technology commercialization, and long-term strategic vision. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Communication and Multimedia from the University of Houston.

FOUNDER & FRACTIONAL CFO

Meagan Crawford LINKEDIN

Dame Meagan Murphy Crawford, former NASA, is a founder of Yo-YoDyne and its fractional CFO. She is the space capital architect and financier of the final frontier, who has dedicated her career to building the capital stack for the space industry across venture capital, private credit, spaceport-adjacent real estate development, new space insurance products, and the data layer that informs it all.

She began her career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, valuing technologies before they were spun out into the private sector. As COO and CFO of Deep Space Industries, she facilitated nearly a dozen Air Force and NASA contracts before Bradford Space acquired the company. She co-founded SpaceFund, a venture capital firm with four exits.

She holds a Rice University MBA and a University of Houston BBA.

FOUNDER & CTO

Shawn Usman LINKEDIN

Shawn Usman, former Intelligence Community, is a founder of Yo-YoDyne and founder and CEO of Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C. astrophysics company he started in 2018.

He is an astrophysicist and a former intelligence official. He spent more than a decade in federal service, roughly 2007 to 2018, building high-risk technologies for the intelligence community. That work included low size-weight-and-power particle detectors for nuclear operations, mapping the Earth’s natural radioactivity, and concepts for neutral particle beam directed energy. He holds a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Mathematics from Purdue (2006) and an M.S. in Applied Physics from Johns Hopkins (2011).

At Rhea Space Activity he has worked in infrared satellites, directed energy, artificial intelligence, LIDAR, astroparticle physics, small satellites, cislunar operations, intelligence collection, and autonomous underwater vehicles.

BOARD MEMBER

Leo Womack LINKEDIN

Leo Womack is CEO of Ramsey Financial Group, a Houston-based single-family office he founded in 1992 that manages a diversified portfolio across real estate, life sciences, energy, and other sectors. With more than 50 years of experience as a real estate professional, developer, investor, and board member (including audit chair roles at public and private companies), he brings deep financial, governance, and capital-markets expertise.

MEDICAL ADVISOR

Dr. Steven C. Karceski, M.D. LINKEDIN

Steven Karceski, MD received a BS in Biochemistry at the University of Maryland where he was a Chancellor's Scholar. He completed an MD at Georgetown, and then a Residency in Neurology where he was Chief Resident. He continued at Stanford, where he completed a Fellowship in Epilepsy. Since 1999, he has worked in New York City (at Columbia from 1999-2010) and then Cornell (2010 to present), specializing in the surgical management of medically refractory epilepsy. His responsibilities include teaching (Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows), meeting with patients, and he is the Director of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring at Cornell.

He has published over 100 articles and book chapters in the field of Neurology and Epilepsy. He served on the Board of Directors of the New York City Chapter of the Epilepsy Foundation, and was Chairman of the Physicians Advisory Board. He has also served for 15 years as an editor of Neurology, the journal of the American Neurological Association.

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS ADVISOR

Douglas A. Smith LINKEDIN

Douglas A. Smith is a seasoned public affairs and homeland security leader with experience at the highest levels of government and in the private sector. As Assistant Secretary for Private Sector at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, he helped shape engagement between government and business, advancing partnerships, information sharing, emergency preparedness, and the protection of critical infrastructure. His work centered on a vital national security priority: bringing public and private stakeholders together to strengthen resilience and respond to evolving threats.

Building on that government experience, Smith has held senior public affairs roles, advising organizations on government relations, strategic communications, crisis response, and policy engagement. He brings a distinctive understanding of how public policy, security priorities, and organizational interests intersect—and how clear communication and strong partnerships can turn that understanding into action.

FIELD DEPLOYMENT ADVISOR

Rick Harlow LINKEDIN

Rick brings more than 25 years of experience deploying mission-critical technology across energy, defense and aerospace, including field-proven atmospheric hydrogen systems with the U.S. Marines, Army and Air Force for expeditionary operations.

TECHNICAL ADVISOR, H2 & AWG

Col. Tom Barnett LINKEDIN

Tom is a U.S. veteran and engineering leader with three decades of experience. He directs atmospheric hydrogen generation and integrated water production for austere, off-grid defense and disaster use.

LEGAL COUNSEL

Kevin White LINKEDIN

Kevin is a Pre-9/11 Gulf War veteran and former JAG Corps officer. He advises on contracts, governance, risk and defense engagements for dual-use systems.