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Dr. Alec Gallimore

Independent Director

Dr. Gallimore has been the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Duke University since 2023. Previously, Dr. Gallimore was the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, from 2016 until 2023 and the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering , from 2015 until 2023, at the University of Michigan. Dr. Gallimore has served on several NASA and US Department of Defense boards and studies, including as a member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of The Institute for Defense Analyses. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics and was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2019. Dr. Gallimore’s primary research interests include electric propulsion, plasma diagnostics and space plasma simulation. He has extensive design and testing experience with a number of electric propulsion devices. Dr. Gallimore has served on the Board of Directors of Bechtel Corporation since 2021.

Dr. Gallimore currently serves on the Board of Directors of PagerDuty, Inc., a cloud computing company (2020-2023).

Member of the Audit Committee

Alec Gallimore

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