Alexis Sáinz is the global co-leader of the Hogan Lovells Space and Satellite practice and a member of the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources & Projects group. She regularly represents export credit and multilateral development agencies, satellite operators, aerospace manufacturers, launch services providers, communications companies, financial institutions, project sponsors, private equity firms, hedge funds, and other industry participants on structured, project and vendor financings, in negotiating commercial and corporate transactions, and with commercially strategic regulatory matters. She also provides industry advice in connection with debt and equity offerings, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and financial restructurings.

Alexis works with investors and lenders to understand the underlying issues impacting space projects and companies, at the intersection of commercial, regulatory and financing aspects of a transaction. She works with project parties to focus on key deal points and to identify appropriate industry-based risk mitigants and efficient allocation of risk in order to build consensus and drive closure. She works with companies to build a project and financing strategy from the ground up, anticipating financing issues early in the development of a new project or the growth of a company.

Alexis co-chairs the American Bar Association’s Committee on Space Law. She co-authored the chapter on “Commercial Satellite Programs” in the Routledge Handbook of Space Law. Prior to beginning her legal career in 2007, Alexis spent over 10 years working in internet-based industries, including e-commerce and media. She previously served as a consultant for the World Bank, National Geographic, and domestic non-profit organizations in connection with internet-based technology, and she was an early member of KPMG Peat Marwick’s financial service’s e-commerce consulting practice, where she focused on emerging technologies.

Mike Collett is Founder and Managing Partner of Promus Ventures, a DeepTech venture capital firm with offices in the US and Europe, investing in AI, space, robotics and other DeepTech early-stage startups. Mike has been a venture capital investor in software and hardware for more than 20 years. Mike has served on numerous Boards of Directors, including Rocket Lab, Spire Global, ICEYE, Halter, Lunar Outpost, Chef Robotics, Gauss Surgical, Recycleye, and others.
Prior to Promus Ventures, Mike was Founder and Managing Partner of Masters Capital
Nanotechnology Fund, a venture capital firm. While working at Masters Capital, a hedge fund,
Mike invested in early-stage DeepTech startups. Prior to venture capital,
Mike was a Vice President in Merrill Lynch’s Mergers & Acquisitions group.
Mike holds a BA in Math and BA in English from Vanderbilt University. He also holds a MBA in
Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.
Mike and his wife Paige have four children and live in Chicago.

Inspired by Knight Rider and Star Trek, Shahin grew up with a passion to endow superpowers to humanity through feats of engineering. He learned BASIC on an IBM PC XT clone he built at his aunt’s computer store and used to dial into Bulletin Board Systems when he was in the 4th grade. He learned about engines by taking apart an Alfa Romeo at his Uncle’s repair shop a few years later. He aspired to design microchips, software, and systems that could someday amount to the fictional K.I.T.T., and build warp drives that could propel humanity to far corners of the galaxy.

Shahin has had the privilege of partnering with amazing founding teams for over two decades. After working for several software startups, he built his first startup in 2004 building upon his PhD research designing chips, systems, and software to capture and interpret brain signals. He later had the pleasure of meeting Lux’s founding team, who invited him to partner with them in 2006, where he has cofounded and led Lux’s investments into companies that have gone on to become publicly traded (e.g., NYSE:AEVA and NYSE:PL), and acquired by the likes of Intel (Nervana), Amazon (Zoox), Silicon Laboratories (Silicon Clocks), and Lattice Semiconductor (SiBeam).

Noémie Vauthelin is US Zone Director for Safran Corporate Ventures. She is responsible for identifying startups and disruptive technologies for the Safran Group in the North American region.
Noemie joined Safran in 2013, where she initially held the position of Safety & Reliability Engineer before advancing to roles as Black Belt and Merging & Acquisition Manager.
Noémie holds an Engineering degree from IMT Atlantique Engineering School, a Master of Science from Virginia Tech and a MBA in International Business Management from IAE Paris. Curious and proactive, she constantly seeks to push her limits and innovate.

Alexandra Vidyuk is a physicist by training and began her career in banking before becoming a deep tech investor. She is the Founder and General Partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, a U.S.-based venture fund investing in breakthrough technologies across space tech, robotics, energy, advanced materials, and future computing.

Alexandra has backed some of the most ambitious companies in the new space economy, including Xona Space Systems, Lunar Outpost, Zeno Power, Transcelestial and Tandem PV. She serves on the board of Space Bridge Partners, an organization that mobilizes support from billionaires and family offices to fund scientific missions and space research.

She is also a mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab’s Space Stream in Canada. Passionate about democratizing access to space innovation, Alexandra founded AngelList’s first space-tech-focused investment community, now with over 650 members globally.

As Chief Editor of the Space Ambition blog, followed by more than 68,000 subscribers, Alexandra is widely recognized as a leading voice in space technology and venture capital.

Her work bridges frontiers—between Earth and orbit, science and capital, and vision and execution.