Tim Ellis
Co-founder & Board Member (former CEO)
Grew up in Plano, Texas and earned a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from USC Viterbi, where he and Jordan Noone co-led USC's Rocket Propulsion Lab and helped launch the first student-designed rocket into space. He interned three consecutive years at Blue Origin and was responsible for bringing metal 3D printing in-house there as a Propulsion Development Engineer. He co-founded Relativity Space in 2015 on the thesis that additive manufacturing could transform rocket production, serving as CEO through the company's Terran 1 launch and Terran R development before transitioning to the board.