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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
New Director Appointment
On January 25, 2023, the Board of Directors of Astra Space, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Julie Cullivan, as an independent director and as a member of the Board of Directors. Ms. Cullivan’s appointment is effective on February 1, 2023, and she will serve as Class II director for a term expiring at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (coterminous with the other Class II director). Ms. Cullivan was also appointed as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee.
Ms. Cullivan currently serves a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm specializing in the technology and healthcare sectors, joining there in 2020. From 2017 through 2021, she was the Chief Technology and People Officer at Forescout Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of compliance and cybersecurity for all connected devices, reporting to the CEO, where she was responsible for leading the company’s business model transformation, information technology strategy, security risk and compliance program, customer production operations, and human resources.
Prior to Forescout, Ms. Cullivan was the EVP, Business Operations and CIO at FireEye, Inc. Ms. Cullivan was a member of the executive team that set the company's strategy and helped scale FireEye from a private company with $80 million in revenue, through its successful IPO, to a global publicly traded company with revenues of over $700 million and a $2.7 billion valuation.
Since 2017, Ms. Cullivan has served as a director for Axon Enterprise Inc. (Nasdaq: AXON), a leader in global public safety technology, where she is a member of the Audit Committee and chairs its Enterprise Risk and Information Security Committee. She also serves on the board of directors of Heartflow, Inc., a medical software company.
Ms. Cullivan has a B.S. degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.
Item 8.01 Other events
On January 27, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Ms. Cullivan to the Board. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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Exhibit 99.1
Julie Cullivan Joins Astra Board of Directors
Information technology and cybersecurity leader appointed to Audit Committee
ALAMEDA, Calif., —January 27, 2023—Astra Space, Inc. (“Astra”) (Nasdaq: ASTR), a provider of products and services to the global space industry, is proud to announce the appointment of Julie Cullivan to the Astra Board of Directors effective February 1, 2023. Ms Cullivan will also join Astra’s Audit Committee.
Ms. Cullivan has held executive positions at FireEye, Autodesk, Forescout, McAfee, EMC, and Oracle. She is a recognized leader in cyber security and compliance and a sought-after speaker on topics including security as a boardroom imperative, women in security, innovation, and building high impact teams.
“Julie’s leadership will be instrumental as Astra focuses on delivering the next version of its launch system and spacecraft engines to support mission critical applications that demand the highest levels of security and reliability” said Chris Kemp, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Astra. “Her perspective and expertise will be invaluable to the organization, and we are excited to have her join our Board of Directors.”
“I am thrilled to be joining Astra’s board during this time of focus on operational excellence and growth,” said Cullivan. “I look forward to bringing my software, security and operational expertise to the leadership team and the board as we begin scaling production of mission-critical spacecraft engines, and the rigor required to deliver reliable launch services at scale.”
Ms. Cullivan has a B.S. degree in Finance from Santa Clara University and brings extensive business, information technology and cyber security expertise to the Astra Board of Directors. In addition to Astra, she serves on the board of directors for Axon Enterprise, Inc. and HeartFlow, Inc.
About Astra
Astra’s mission is to improve life on Earth from space® by creating a healthier and more connected planet. Today, Astra offers one of the lowest cost-per-launch dedicated orbital launch services of any operational launch provider in the world, and one of the industry’s first flight-proven electric propulsion systems for satellites, Astra Spacecraft Engine™. Astra delivered its first commercial launch to low Earth orbit in 2021, making it the fastest company in history to reach this milestone, just five years after it was founded in 2016. Astra (NASDAQ: ASTR) was the first space launch company to be publicly traded on Nasdaq. Visit astra.com to learn more about Astra.
Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements made in this press release are “forward-looking statements”. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “expect”, “estimate”, “plan”, “outlook”, and “project” and other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, including the timing of when we may file our quarterly report on Form 10-Q and those risks and uncertainties described from time to time in other reports and other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Media Contact:
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Investor Contact:
Andrew Hsiung
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