With 20 years of in-house general counsel experience, Randy Segal brings an individual perspective to every matter she handles, both as your outside counsel and as someone who has walked in your shoes. With a focus on satellite, wireless, drone, and technology transactions, Randy provides commercially practical solutions in industries where technological change is ever-present. Randy’s practice often involves multi-level chess games, where every move needs to be considered from a multitude of angles to be successful.

As a result, Randy’s practice is reflected in three segments. First, as co-leader of the Space and Satellite practice, Randy has handled many types of transactions, from day-to-day matters to the most complex international transactions for industry operators, investors, and technology providers. She has been involved in taking companies public, advising on acquisitions, divestitures, and complex cross-border joint ventures, as well as large satellite system development, deployments and funding.

Second, as an advisor to technology investors and their portfolio companies, Randy has advised on transactions focused on big data analytics, IT, wireless systems, spectrum licenses, environmental analytics, wireless proximity analysis, drone technology, terrestrial positioning, and other innovative technologies.

Third, Randy provides “strand of pearls” advice to global clients, working seamlessly with our international offices to develop familiar, comfortable and “right-sized” solutions. Randy’s extensive cross-border experience has resulted in an extensive tool-kit of resolutions for the most complex of legal regimes. Randy’s transactional and advisory experience is both deep and broad, working throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East and on the most complex of international programs and legal issues.

Richard French leads business development and strategy for Rocket Lab’s space systems division, providing end-to-end mission services and on-orbit operations with the company’s Photon family of small spacecraft and high-end satellite components including propulsion, reaction wheels, star trackers, avionics, solar arrays, and more.

Richard spent over a decade at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he led development of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator program and managed technology partnerships with industry in the Office of Space Technology. He also spent two years on detail to NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. as a Staff Technologist in the Space Technology Mission Directorate, leading development of the Tipping Point and Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity solicitations. Richard’s earlier career includes service as an engineer on various NASA missions, including being awarded the NASA Honors Early Career Public Achievement Medal for his work as a lead mechanical systems engineer on the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, and helping to land the Curiosity Rover on Mars as a member of the Mars Science Laboratory entry, descent, and landing systems engineering team.

Richard holds a Masters degree in Space Systems Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Michigan.

Tammy Lucas leads Terma’s US Commercial Development organization in identification of technology investments, product improvements, as well as strategy development for the Space, Electronic Warfare and Radar business units.  Tammy joined Terma’s US organization in 2021 as VP of Engineering, expanding in 2022 to a global VP position for joint Danish and US Electronic Warfare Engineering team.  In support of increasing growth for Terma in the US, Tammy now leads Customer Development and Strategy, working with Business Development and Engineering organizations in the Self Protection System / Electronic Warfare, Radar and Space Business Units where a key focus area is growth of Terma’s Space portfolio in the US commercial and defense market.

With more than 25 years of technical development and leadership experience in the aerospace and defense business, Tammy has extensive experience supporting DoD and industry defense OEMs in support of USAF, US Army, US Navy, USMC, and various US allied nation missions.  Tammy spent 20 years at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics starting as an avionics engineer and progressing through positions of increasing responsibility including Deputy Chief Engineer for C-5 aircraft programs and Deputy Program Director for FAA certification of the C-130J aircraft.  Additionally, Tammy worked at L3 Harris and Raytheon Intelligence and Space with a focus on P&L management and technical leadership in new product development and ISR aircraft programs.

Tammy holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from University of South Florida.

Ahsun Murad is the President and CEO of Optimal Satcom, which he co-founded as a spin-off from Lockheed Martin and Comsat in 2002. Over the last 22 years since its founding, Optimal Satcom has grown to support a large segment of the satellite industry with industry-leading enterprise-level software products and systems for resource management, service planning, optimization, and business intelligence. Over 15 satellite operators, 20 of the largest satellite service providers, and major US Government DoD, allied governments, and civilian agencies use Optimal Satcom products and systems today.
As a world expert in satellite communications technology with over 30 years of experience, Mr. Murad advises satellite companies and governments on satellite system design, application of emerging technologies, and formulating policy decisions. Before founding Optimal Satcom, Mr. Murad held management positions at Lockheed Martin and COMSAT Laboratories. In these positions, he headed the development of products for transmission planning and satellite capacity management and was the lead system architect for a number of commercial SATCOM and MILSATCOM projects.
Before joining COMSAT Laboratories, Mr. Murad worked at the NASA Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communications Networks where he was involved in research and development related to hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile communications systems, and complex multi-satellite systems. Mr. Murad graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park.

J.D. Russell is an American entrepreneur and spaceflight participant who flew to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard missions NS-28 and NS-34. He launched Alpha Funds, a venture capital and mergers and acquisitions firm focused on aerospace and frontier technologies. His spaceflight experiences helped inspire Alpha Funds’ flagship initiative, Alpha Aerospace, which invests in early-stage propulsion and advanced manufacturing startups. Prior to this, Russell founded a property management company and successfully completed a rollup strategy with multiple mergers and acquisitions of real estate management and service firms across the United States, ultimately developing a proprietary software system to scale operations. He also founded the Victoria Russell Foundation, named for his late daughter, to promote children’s literacy through a partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Mr. Rob Singh has recently joined the MDA Space Executive Team as Vice President of Strategic Solutions, leading customer focused solutions and driving MDA global growth across space geo intelligence, robotics and satellite systems markets.  Rob is also the founder and principal of SPARC Innovations, focused consulting on space architecture solutions and providing advisory services across the space industry.

Previously, Rob was the Co-Founder/CTO of Axta Space established with the goal of delivering optical solutions for space communications, on a mission to offer a revolutionary managed optical network services solution across multi orbit LEO/MEO/GEO domains to the industry.  And prior, was the CTO of SpaceLink, where he architected the SpaceLink hybrid optical and RF communications transport relay services solution realized as a 4+ constellation of Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites optically interconnected and relaying in RF to ground.

Mr. Singh established a foundation with 25 years as Space Systems Loral and Maxar, initially in operations with responsibility as Executive Director of Communications Systems at SSL, then into strategic and architecture role, as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Chief Architect at Maxar Technologies.  He has contributed to over 23 publications including writer of the SMAD graduate engineering textbook chapter on communications systems.

Mr. Singh holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering and a Master of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, as well as an Executive Leadership Development Certificate from the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate Business School.

Rob also serves as Executive Chair of the AIAA Communications Systems Technical Committee, and as a committee member of the Los Altos Hills Town Council – Emergency Preparedness and Response Committee.