CHAD FISH
VP, Strategy and CTO
Chad Fish serves as the Orion Space Solutions (Orion) vice president of strategy and chief technology officer. In this role, Chad is responsible for shaping the sector's long-term strategy, enhancing technological innovation, and ensuring the delivery of superior solutions to Orion’s mission partners.
Since joining Orion in 2017, Fish has played a pivotal role in driving the organization’s growth and success. He was named president and general manager of Orion following its acquisition by Arcfield in November 2023 after serving as the company’s chief operating officer for six years. Prior to joining Orion, Chad served as chief technical officer and then chief operating officer at OmniEarth Analytics. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of roles including branch manager, principal investigator, program manager, and systems engineer within Space Dynamics Laboratory’s civil and military space divisions, as well as held the role of director of space instrumentation in the Center for Space Engineering at Utah State University (USU).
Chad holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from USU and has been a research professor at the university since 2014.

