Prior to founding TrustPoint, Patrick Shannon was a Vice President at Astro Digital where he was a 5x satellite program manager and responsible for strategy, business development, and program execution. Before that, Mr. Shannon was Vice President of Business Development at SpaceQuest Ltd, where he drove company strategy and oversaw all contract and internal R&D program execution. He got his start as a satellite systems engineer at Orbital Sciences later transferring into their Corporate Development and M&A group. He has spent the last 12 years studying and developing commercial service solutions for historically DoD/IC operated systems and holds degrees from MIT and Stanford University.