MICHAEL COLGLAZIER
CEO
VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS INC.
WHY: Guides Tustin-based company that will introduce its new Delta class spaceships in 2026, catering to a total addressable market of some 300K fee-paying astronauts.
IN THE NEWS: Virgin Galactic has suspended flights pending introduction of the new spaceships.
NOTABLE: Longtime Orange County business and tourism exec, who from 2013 to 2018 headed operations of Disneyland, long OC’s largest employer.
QUOTABLE: “The completion of our new manufacturing facility is an important milestone in the development of our fleet of next-generation spaceships, the key to our scale and profitability,”
