Chris Kemp

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Chris C. Kemp
Official NASA portrait
Born	1977 (age 46–47) Buffalo, New York
Nationality	American
Employer	Astra
Title	Founder, Chairman and CEO

Chris C. Kemp (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur who, along with Dr. Adam London,^[1] founded Astra, a space technology firm based in California, in 2016.^[2] He served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California,^[3] and as NASA's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for IT.^[4] While at NASA, Kemp partnered with Google and Microsoft and helped in the creation of Google Moon and Mars.^[5] He worked with the White House to develop the cloud computing strategy for the United States Federal Government and co-founded OpenStack, an open-source software project for cloud computing.^[6][7] He was also one of the founders of Nebula, a company that from 2011 to 2015, worked to commercialise the technology.^[8]