Intuitive Machines Announces Key Leadership Appointments
09 Septembre 2024 - 1:45PM
Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) (“Intuitive
Machines”) (“Company”), a leading space exploration,
infrastructure, and services company, announced that effective
September 16, 2024, Pete McGrath will transition from his current
role of Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer into the
role of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Steven
Vontur will transition from serving as the Company’s Interim Chief
Financial Officer to Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, and
Jack Fischer will transition to Senior Vice President, Production
and Operations.
“As we continue to enjoy exponential growth,
Intuitive Machines is promoting talent from within the
organization to ensure we remain focused on executing our strategy
and scale seamlessly. I am excited to announce the leadership
transitions for these exceptional leaders, each of whom brings deep
experience to the Company,” said Steve Altemus, Intuitive Machines
President and CEO. “They have played and will continue to play a
crucial role in driving the execution of the Company’s long-term
strategic vision and growth. I am also grateful to Mr. Vontur for
stepping in as Interim CFO and delighted to announce his new role
as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller.”
Mr. McGrath joined the Company in 2020
and is an accomplished executive with a background in finance
and more than 35 years in the aerospace and defense industry. In
his new role as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,
Mr. McGrath will continue to focus on executing the long-term
vision and strategy of the Company as he leads the finance
organization. While at Intuitive Machines, he has held the roles of
Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Business Development,
demonstrating exceptional leadership and domain expertise in each
role. Mr. McGrath holds an MBA from the University of Southern
California - Marshall School of Business, an MS in Aerospace
Engineering from California State University Long Beach, and a BS
in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern
California. Prior to joining Intuitive Machines in August 2020, Mr.
McGrath worked at Boeing as the Director of the Global Sales and
Marketing organization in the Space Exploration Business Unit,
responsible for shaping, extending, and capturing business in
support of NASA and commercial space exploration missions.
Mr. Vontur joined the Company in 2022 as our
Controller and has played a key role in taking the Company public
and building out the Accounting and Finance team. As the Chief
Accounting Officer and Controller, Mr. Vontur will remain
responsible for ensuring the overall integrity and efficiency of
the accounting, reporting, and financial control functions and will
be responsible for the tax affairs. Prior to joining Intuitive
Machines, Mr. Vontur worked at several private companies in various
capacities, providing public company readiness and other accounting
services from September 2020 to June 2022. He spent the majority of
his career at KBR, Inc. from December 2004 to August 2022, serving
in multiple positions of increasing responsibility, ranging from
Business Unit Controller to Director of SEC Reporting,
Consolidations, and Financial Controls. Steven began his career in
public accounting from 1993 to 2004, primarily in the audit
practice of Ernst & Young LLP. He holds a bachelor’s degree in
business administration (accounting) from Texas A&M University
and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Texas.
Mr. Fischer joined Intuitive Machines in 2021.
In his new role as Senior Vice President, Production and
Operations, he will be responsible for assembling and galvanizing a
team of experts to meet the ever-increasing demands of providing
space infrastructure and services. Recently named to the Texas
Space Commission, Col (ret) Jack “2fish” Fischer is a senior space
ops leader, combat fighter pilot, astronaut, and flight test expert
with 27 years of experience across the spectrum of operational
levels. He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force
Academy and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Draper Fellow
with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in astronautics. He is also a
command pilot astronaut with over 3,000 hours in over 40 aircraft
and an Associate Fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
He has spent 136 days in space, and completed two spacewalks.
“Our leadership team is best-in-class, and these
adjustments to the team will ensure we continue to rise to the
challenges of expanding the company's footprint in space, whether
it is in the development of flight systems, the deployment, and
operation of our space and ground networks, or the autonomous
operations of our infrastructure in and around the Moon,” Altemus
said.
About Intuitive Machines
Intuitive Machines is a diversified space
exploration, infrastructure, and services company focused on
beginning a new economy in cislunar space. In 2024, Intuitive
Machines became the first commercial company to land and operate on
the lunar surface, which validated the Company’s ability to provide
the three service pillars required to commercialize a celestial
body: delivery, data & analysis, and autonomous operations in
space. The Company empowers its customers to achieve their
ambitious visions and commercial goals in space through seamless
collaboration with its robust service pillars.
Contacts
For investor inquiries:
investors@intuitivemachines.com
For media inquiries:
press@intuitivemachines.com
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