Bio

Aexa President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Fernando De La Peña has twenty eight years of successful leadership in technology and engineering companies. A United States citizen's lifelong passion for space exploration combined with Aexa's leading-edge expertise plays a key role in his support for NASA. As an undergraduate engineering student, Fernando completed and patented a spacecraft engine propelled by anti-matter, and received additional patents, for example, a space launcher employing magnetic levitation. He received a Discovery Channel Prize in 2010 for his work developing the Mexican Space Agency. He is the former President of the National Contract Management Association, NCMA Space City Houston chapter at NASA JSC. NCMA is the world’s leading professional resource in the field of contract management. He is the chairman of the Johnson Space Center Small Business Council. He serves on the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership Board of Directors (BAHEP), and, he chairs the Communications Committee of the Johnson Space Center National Management Association. He is also the aerospace liaison of the Clear lake Chamber of Commerce.