Chris Kemp
Chris C. Kemp (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur who, along with Dr. Adam London, founded
Astra, a
space technology firm based in
California, in 2016. He served as the
Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the
NASA Ames Research Center in
Mountain View, California, and as
NASA's first
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for
information technology. While at NASA, Kemp partnered with
Google and
Microsoft and helped in the creation of Google Moon and Google Mars. He worked with the
White House to develop the
cloud computing strategy for the
United States Federal Government and co-founded
OpenStack, an
open-source software project for cloud computing. He was also one of the founders of
Nebula, a company that from 2011 to 2015, worked to commercialise the technology.
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