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- Berkeley Space Center builds on and advances the University’s three-part mission of education, research, and public service, while taking advantage of the campus’s academic excellence and leadership in emerging fields of inquiry and exploration.
  
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- Berkeley Space Center builds on and advances the University’s three-part mission of education, research, and public service, while taking advantage of the campus’s academic excellence and leadership in emerging fields of inquiry and exploration.
  
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Governance Structure

In 2022, a Joint Venture was formed between UC Berkeley and SKS Partners to oversee the development of the Berkeley Space Center. The Joint Venture is unique to the University of California system. It is a private development, where there is a shared governance and profit model between UC Berkeley and SKS.

The governance structure lays out principal responsibilities and a structure for considering major decisions and for breaking any deadlock. The Joint Venture also provides a framework that respects the primary strengths and concerns of each party, where SKS takes principal responsibility for financing, master planning and construction considerations, and UC Berkeley does the same for education, collaboration with NASA and forwarding its broader mission statement.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is the governing board of the joint venture, Moffett Partners, LLC. It approves major decisions (e.g., annual budget, development budget) and resolves any disputes between the two managing members of the LLC.

Executive Committee Members
Name	Representation
Nathan Brostrom	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, University of California
Carol Christ	Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Dan Kingsley	Principal and Co-Founder, SKS Partners
Paul Stein	Principal and Co-Founder, SKS Partners

Daily Representatives

For day to day management of the site, the campus designates two representatives to actively engage with SKS to implement the major decisions and ensure the project remains on mission.

Daily Representatives
Name	Representation
Darek DeFreece	Berkeley Space Center
Robert Gotelli	Berkeley Space Center

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee provides expertise on project elements including business processes, campus stakeholder engagement and current or new technical solutions.

Steering Committee Members
Name	Representation
Alexandre Bayen	Associate Provost for Moffett Field Program Development, Berkeley Space Center
Darek DeFreece	Founder & Executive Director, Berkeley Space Center
Daniel Feitelberg	Interim Vice Chancellor of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Amy Gardner	Executive Director, University Business Partnerships & Services
Khira Griscavage	Associate Chancellor and Chief of Staff to the Chancellor, Office of the Chancellor
Rosemary Kim	Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Richard Lyons	Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Dan Mogulof	Assistant Vice Chancellor, Office of Communications and Public Affairs
Christine Treadway	Assistant Chancellor, Government and Community Relations
Katherine Yelick	Vice Chancellor, Research
Christopher Yetter	Senior Advisor to the Provost, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Faculty Steering Committee

The Faculty Steering Committee provides vision and recommendations for academic engagement at Berkeley Space Center.

Faculty Steering Committee Members
Name	Representation
Gordon Rausser	Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Rausser College of Natural Resources, Chair
Rebecca Abergel	Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering
James Analytis	Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Mark Asta	Executive Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Jill Banfield	Professor, Departments of Earth and Planetary Science
Alexandre Bayen	Associate Provost for Moffett Field Program Development, Berkeley Space Center
Kwabena Bediako	Assistant Professor, College of Chemistry
Joshua Bloom	Chair and Professor, Department of Astronomy
Darek DeFreece	Founder & Executive Director, Berkeley Space Center
Iryna Dronova	Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, and Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Rausser College of Natural Resources
Sandrine Dudoit	Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Panos Papadopoulos	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ilia Roussev	Director, Space Sciences Laboratory
Raja Sengupta	Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sanjit Seshia	Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Richard Stanton	Professor of Finance and Real Estate, Haas School of Business
Lisa Wymore	Professor, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies; Faculty Advisor for Creative Discovery