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The world’s largest commercial space imaging company and one of Colorado’s premier aerospace companies

Dan Smoot
CEO, Maxar Intelligence
Tuesday, Jan. 21 | 4 P.M. | AERO N240

Please join Mark Sirangelo as he welcomes Dan Smoot, the CEO of Maxar Intelligence for a discussion of his career, global space data creation and the future of space imagery and imaging technology.

Maxar (also the owner of Digital Globe and Worldview) is the operator of the most advanced commercial Earth observation constellation on orbit. It collects over 3.8 million sq km of high-res imagery every day, operates in over 85 countries with over 2,600 employees including 600+ software developers and has over 125 petabytes of data.

Since November 2023, Dan has been leading Maxar’s push to bring the geospatial industry into a new age of intelligence. For over three decades, he has helped scale some of the world’s most innovative IT companies and worked closely with the defense and intelligence communities to integrate cutting-edge technologies into national security architectures. Today, Dan is guiding Maxar’s evolution to deliver secure, software-enabled products that use the power of geospatial data and technology get mission-critical insights, faster.

Dan became CEO in November 2023. Prior to joining Maxar, he served as CEO of Riverbed Technology, where he led the IT company’s transformation from a hardware provider to a software-focused business that today serves government and commercial customers, including national security agencies and 95% of the Fortune 100. Dan had also previously served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Customer Officer throughout his tenure at the company.

Prior to Riverbed Technology, Dan held several senior roles at Salesforce, including Executive Vice President of Global Partner Sales and Executive Vice President of Market Readiness. Earlier in his career, Dan served as Senior Vice President of Global Customer Operations at VMWare and held a variety of senior sales, operations and finance roles over 13 years at Cisco. Dan earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from UC Irvine. He is a board member of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Western Affiliate and was previously the Chairman of the AHA’s Greater Bay Area chapter.

Mark N. Sirangelo created and hosts the CU Future Insight Seminar Series as CU’s Entrepreneur-Scholar in Residence. He is the recent Chairman of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Board and the DoD’s Space Advisory Committee. ÌýPreviously he was Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator helping to develop NASA’s return to the Moon. ÌýMark was the founding executive and head of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems and has served as the Chief Innovation Officer of Colorado.