Eren Ozmen

Eren Ozmen's Sierra Nevada Corp. was awarded a NASA contract in January 2016 for cargo missions via its Dream Chaser spacecraft, whose folding wings allow it to land on airport runways. It will join SpaceX and Orbital ATK in servicing and resupplying the International Space Station starting in 2019. Ozmen owns and runs SNC with her husband, Fatih'she as president and CFO, he as CEO. SNC also builds satellites and propulsion systems and is a key supplier of technologies to the aerospace and defense industries. The couple, who both emigrated from Turkey and got master's degrees in Nevada, bought the company, for which Fatih worked, in 1994. Master of Business Administration, University of Nevada at Reno