Amit Puri

Amit Puri is a space operations expert with high-profile missions’ experience, ranging from the Space Shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope, establishing his reputation as an expert in the implementation of space data and networking protocols and helping NASA and its partner agencies achieve unprecedented performance in space-to-ground communications, ground system operations, and science data processing.

Mr. Puri is currently President and CEO of Kurtek, a mission-critical space communications company that supports civil and DOD space agencies and other private space operators in developing, deploying, and operating next-gen systems for successful space operations. Prior to Kurtek, Mr. Puri founded Ingenicomm, which provided similar expert technical solutions to NASA and the United States Air Force. In 2017, Ingenicomm was acquired by Braxton Science & Technology Group.

Mr. Puri supports several nonprofit and academic institutions, including Virginia Tech’s Puri Satellite Ground Network, which is named after him, Inova Foundation (Trustee), Costello College of Business at George Mason University (Advisory), the Horological Society of New York (Trustee) and Potomac Bank (Director).