BOARD CHAIR
Jackie Karceski
Jackie Karceski is a Board Director, Board Chair, investor, CPA, and former CEO, CFO, CIO, and CTO with more than 35 years of experience helping organizations allocate capital, manage risk, accelerate growth, and create long-term enterprise value.
An active investor and strategic advisor, Jackie evaluates opportunities across market disruption, artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and sustainability. She brings a unique ability to connect emerging technologies, market trends, and capital allocation decisions to growth, competitive advantage, and shareholder value.
Her executive leadership experience spans finance, technology, operations, cybersecurity, digital transformation, governance, strategic partnerships, and M&A. Jackie is particularly valued for helping boards and investors anticipate market shifts, assess emerging risks and opportunities, and position organizations for sustainable growth.
Jackie holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, a Certificate in International Economics & Public Policy from Harvard University, a B.A. in Political Economy and Accounting from UC Berkeley, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and holds the NACD.DC® credential.
FOUNDER & INVENTOR
L. Barton Womack Jr.
L. Barton Womack Jr. is the founder and inventor of the company. A futurist, investor, and serial entrepreneur with decades of experience building businesses across multiple industries, he previously founded Eden Grow Systems and invented its first product, the LifePod. He brings deep expertise in product development, technology commercialization, and long-term strategic vision.
FOUNDER & FRACTIONAL CFO
Meagan Crawford
Dame Meagan Murphy Crawford is a founder of Yo-YoDyne and its fractional CFO. She is the space capital architect and financier of the final frontier, who has dedicated her career to building the capital stack for the space industry across venture capital, private credit, spaceport-adjacent real estate development, new space insurance products, and the data layer that informs it all.
She began her career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, valuing technologies before they were spun out into the private sector. As COO and CFO of Deep Space Industries, she facilitated nearly a dozen Air Force and NASA contracts before Bradford Space acquired the company. She co-founded SpaceFund, a venture capital firm with four exits.
She holds a Rice University MBA and a University of Houston BBA.
FOUNDER & CTO
Shawn Usman
Dr. Shawn Usman is a founder of Yo-YoDyne and founder and CEO of Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C. astrophysics company he started in 2018.
He is an astrophysicist and a former intelligence official. He spent more than a decade in federal service, roughly 2007 to 2018, building high-risk technologies for the intelligence community. That work included low size-weight-and-power particle detectors for nuclear operations, mapping the Earth’s natural radioactivity, and concepts for neutral particle beam directed energy. He holds a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Mathematics from Purdue (2006) and an M.S. in Applied Physics from Johns Hopkins (2011).
At Rhea Space Activity he has worked in infrared satellites, directed energy, artificial intelligence, LIDAR, astroparticle physics, small satellites, cislunar operations, intelligence collection, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
BOARD MEMBER
Leo Womack
Leo Womack is CEO of Ramsey Financial Group, a Houston-based single-family office he founded in 1992 that manages a diversified portfolio across real estate, life sciences, energy, and other sectors. With more than 50 years of experience as a real estate professional, developer, investor, and board member (including audit chair roles at public and private companies), he brings deep financial, governance, and capital-markets expertise.
