Our Team

Headshot of Ben Nowack the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder of Reflect Orbital
Ben Nowack
CEO
In high school Ben ran the “BenNbuilds” science channel and built a fusion reactor. As a freshman Ben led automated hardware projects for validating Crew Dragon propulsion components at SpaceX. Ben then worked as senior engineer at Park and Diamond, Director of Engineering at Tri-D Dynamics, and led launcher design at Zipline.
Headshot of Tristan Semmelhack the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder of Reflect Orbital
Tristan Semmelhack
CTO
Tristan has 10 years of experience inventing and designing high-performance flying vehicles. He was directly hired by Zipline's CEO and CTO into a full-time engineering position before college at age 19, and held design ownership of Zipline’s delivery droid. Tristan stopped out from Stanford to serve as Reflect's CTO and Co-Founder.