Gwynne Shotwell

President & Chief Operating Officer

Gwynne Shotwell (born 1963) is a mechanical engineer who joined SpaceX in 2002 as its eleventh employee. Promoted to President in 2008 after negotiating SpaceX's first NASA Commercial Resupply Services contract, she runs day-to-day operations and built the Falcon manifest into a business worth tens of billions. Holding degrees from Northwestern, she was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 and is widely credited as the operational engine behind SpaceX's commercial success.