Steve Isakowitz is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is a company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public, along with suborbital space science missions and orbital launches of small satellites...

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In 2007, he was appointed as the United States Department of Energy

United States Department of Energy

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 Chief Financial Officer

Chief financial officer

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. He is also a former Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA

NASA

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, from 2002 to 2005. While serving as Branch Chief for Science and Space at the White House Office of Management and Budget, he managed a $50 billion space program budget.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio

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, Mr. Isakowitz graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in aerospace engineering. He and his wife, Monica, live in Virginia

Virginia

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and have four children.