At Team Tumbleweed, we are building on 8+ years of heritage in the space industry. We want to enable anyone with a big idea to use low-earth-orbit and its microgravity conditions as a platform for groundbreaking innovation, while developing the core competences needed to reach for Mars and beyond.
In an industry plagued by bureaucracy, long lead times, and staggering project cost, we are building a unique, end-to-end offering, tailored to the needs of researchers, manufacturers, and engineers.
BizDev Lead
“Lenny” has been a volunteer member of Team Tumbleweed since fall of 2019. In his >5-year long journey with the team, he has held a variety of roles, ranging from graphic design, over a research partnership, to heading the department of people and operations (HR+IT) for a year. Lenny is a purpose-driven manager, researcher, and founder, who has always seen a lot of value in working and learning interdisciplinarily – a quality he sees very much reflected in the diverse talent pool of Team Tumbleweed. His master’s thesis on organizational transformations in volunteer-driven organizations examined the revelatory case of Team Tumbleweed, laying important groundwork for this commercial undertaking.
Team Lead
Julian is an entrepreneur and space engineer passionate about improving humanity’s future by making space radically accessible. Having founded Team Tumbleweed in 2017, he was deeply inspired by how close, yet how far away it was for everyday people. He has built up Team Tumbleweed from a garage to an international organization with over 50 members all over the world, successfully achieving numerous technical milestones, completing ESA BIC and publishing over 20 papers.
Guided by a vision of humanity elevated by space, he values the potential of space to bring together people of all backgrounds, ages, and tirelessly drives international teams to not only excel in the space industry, but upend it.
RnD Lead
Guillaume is a space engineer with an international background and a passion for improving the future of our species. Unsatisfied by the pace of traditional engineering education, he focused on tackling real projects with ever-increasing ambition. This led him from electric motorsport to jet engine development at Safran, and on to space propulsion at Rocket Lab for the EscaPADE Mars mission. Having been introduced to the Tumbleweed project through the International Space University, he became a volunteer member while simultaneously writing his master’s thesis on rocketry at HyPrSpace, and organising a space sustainability conference in support of the United Nations programme on space applications. He recently received the SGAC Nebula Award recognizing up-and-coming leaders in the space industry.
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