CEO, VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS
WHY: Longtime OC business and tourism exec; CEO at local space travel firm that has started sending private astronauts aloft for $450,000 per ride. From 2013 to 2018 headed operations of Disneyland.
IN THE NEWS: The Richard Branson-founded company aims to launch every month and then more frequently; waiting list time stretches several years into the future.
NOTABLE: Company’s Spaceport America is in New Mexico. Colglazier envisions adding locations across the globe in future years.
QUOTABLE: “It’d be amazing to look down over the boot of Italy or over the Sea of Japan or other places.”
