NYC AEROSPACE - Key Persons
To Al-Nahian, Aerospace means more than an organization, it means turning dreams into reality. Al-Nahian loves to create, he finds passion in designing and creating, and Aerospace gives him the opportunity to do just that. At Bronx Science, Al-Nahian's passion for teaching gives him courage to educate those who seek information about his passion, creating.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Senior Global Business Development Executive
Cheryl Edison is an entrepreneur and senior global business development executive. Her works spans fifty-seven industries, on five continents. Quoted by USA Today, NPR and CNN, with articles reporting on her most recent work in FastCompany, the Silicon Valley Business Times and Yahoo Finance, Edison provides advisory and presentations to start-ups, Fortune 100 corporations, property developers, civic leaders and universities to achieve milestone ROI, innovation acceleration, fundraising and startup ecosystem goals.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director New Jersey
After joining NYC Aerospace, he has served a significant role in restructuring the organization and establishing a division at Rutgers University. Currently, he is working on various outreach initiatives as well as helping guide the organization by directly working on the executive board to fulfill the vision of the aerospace industry being accessible to all.
Job Titles:
- Gazze: RockED President & Regional Director Manhattan
Jakob Gorisek-Gazze has had a lifelong love of engineering. One that he wishes to share with others. He launched his first rockets in middle school, and uses his extensive knowledge of aerospace engineering and Computer Aided Design to lead the design process in the American Rocketry Challenge and other NYC Aerospace projects. More than anything, he wants others to have the same privilige to love aerospace like he does.
Leon Maksin is the original founder and CEO of NYC Aerospace. Beginning with his childhood dream of building and launching a rocket into outer space, Leon originally founded the Stuyvesant Rocketry Team in the Spring of 2018. Since then, Leon managed to grow the organization and help develop the multiple projects that make NYC Aerospace what it is today. Leon is also the President of the TARC and CubeSAT initiatives and helps run the other projects for NYC Aerospace.
Job Titles:
- Data Scientist
- Regional Director Brooklyn
Matthew Bilik is an experienced computer and data scientist with months of work with NASA under his sleeve. Specifically, he has worked on Landsat 8 and MODIS Aqua and Terra satellites at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies / Columbia Earth Institute joint lab.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President, Manager of High Powered Rocketry and Coordinator
Saad is always trying to learn more about physics and engineering. This passion has stayed with him and spread to his friends which ultimately led to the creation of the High-Powered-Rocketry team. Currently he manages, teaches, and leads team meetings.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director Staten Island
Since learning more about rocketry concerning popular sci-fi movies like Interstellar and The Martian, Yousef's been dedicating his free time to developing prototypes for eco-friendly rockets. He envisions a future where humans can inhabit Mars and other extraterrestrial lands. While proposing research to the team, Yousef devotes his team to teaching Staten Island middle school students about aerospace engineering.