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Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn

Senior Client Partner and Space Industry Practice Leader co-leading Korn Ferry's Aerospace & Defense executive search practice, based in Los Angeles.

Sep 21, 2026

10:02
Mark, we asked this earlier, but what, from your perspective, has made industry in space and on the moon seem like such a possibility now versus even a few years ago?
10:14
I think one of the biggest things is just the launch cadence.
10:18
And that means that the number of rocket ships physically leaving from a lot of different places around the world on a regular basis.
10:26
I'd say over the last five years, that's really accelerated.
10:29
If you look back 10 years, that's really accelerated.
10:31
So it is the cost to bring things to outer space that has really come down to allow not just science experiments, but a lot of commercially viable things.
10:41
A lot of people talking about data centers and things like that, that you can now put on orbit different satellites that can now connect to your cell phone, where that's all brand new technology as well.
11:29
In connecting with these leaders of companies that are venturing into space, what would you say it is about them? that maybe sets them apart from other organizations?

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