KEPLER COMMUNICATIONS - Key Persons


Alicia Stump - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing
Alicia brings Kepler over 15 years of experience building and leading marketing teams from large organizations. She specializes in building effective integrated marketing and communications strategies to elevate brand awareness and increase company success.

Brad Crail

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff

Jenny Crandall - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
  • Vice President, People & Culture
Jenny brings over 25 years of experience to Kepler, leading all facets of human resources. She strives to achieve organizational effectiveness at all levels, facilitating strategy and change to help companies manage growth and retention.

Mark Michael - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Co - Founder
Mark leads the engineering teams at Kepler, inspiring teams to innovate in rapid cycles of learning to help Kepler reach its goal of being the first commercially available Internet in space provider. An award winning engineer, he applies his advanced mathematics skills to solve complex problems in space and other industries.

Mayuran Kanthasamy - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
  • Vice President, Information Security
Mayuran leads Information Security with over 18 years of experience that includes governance, strategy, policies and procedures, risk management, security operations, incident management, regulatory compliance/oversight, architecture development, and awareness training. He brings Kepler expert knowledge of information security management and compliance frameworks and standards including ISO 27001, SOC-2, NIST CSF, ITIL, NIST 800-171 and NIST 800-53.

Mina Mitry - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Co - Founder
Mina leads Kepler with a vision to extend the human reach into space by building a modern Internet infrastructure on-orbit for the future space economy. Under Mina's leadership, Kepler has raised over $200 million USD in funding and achieved notable industry recognition as the largest satellite operator in Canada, one of the most innovative companies in space by Fast Company, and 'top10 in satellite' by Via Satellite in 2023.

Robert Conrad

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, US Business Development
Robert joins Kepler with over 30 years of experience leading capture and business development strategies for aerospace companies. He has past success in winning contracts for NASA and other US Department of Defense and is driving the capture strategy for Kepler's US business.

Sally Ha-Hau - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Finance
Sally has extensive operating experience guiding startups to scale Finance functions, including accounting, treasury, and FP&A. She has a proven track record of bringing valuable strategic and operational insights to deliver positive bottom line impacts, managing the full lifecycle of financial processes.

Shane Fleming

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Global / Business Development

Steve Bennett - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • President, Kepler / Communications US Inc.
Steve motivates the Kepler US teams to transform vision into reality with over 30 years of executive leadership experience in aerospace engineering. He is a published technology expert with multiple patents and has delivered successes at Honeywell, Raytheon, BAE Systems, L3, and Blue Origin.

Sylvia Wu

Job Titles:
  • Head of Product

Wen Cheng Chong - Chief Strategy Officer, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Co - Founder
Wen plays a key role in leading long-term strategy and positioning for Kepler's global business. Passionate about tackling challenges that push the boundaries of technology, he led the team at Kepler to bring the world's first Ku-band Cubesat from ‘napkin to orbit' in less than 12 months.