Sam Davis is Vice President of Growth for SAR Solutions at IonQ, where he leads sales and go-to-market for the company's synthetic aperture radar business, built on Capella Space — the first U.S. commercial SAR operator. His career has been spent at the edge of technology, innovation, and execution. He spent more than a decade leading supply chain on NASA's Orion program — the first spacecraft designed to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit in more than forty years — where he procured the first article of the largest heat shield ever built, flown on Orion's first flight test in 2014. He briefed members of the United States Congress on the program, and advised the Government of Canada on how a nation carries a sovereign space capability forward beyond a signature national achievement, following the Canadarm. At Raytheon Intelligence and Space, he supported the programs behind DARPA's Blackjack: Mandrake, which demonstrated the first low-cost, interoperable laser crosslinks on orbit — now the standard across proliferated satellite constellations — and Pit Boss, the battle management, command, control and communications payload that placed autonomous mission management, optical link routing, and encrypted delivery aboard the satellites themselves. At IonQ, he leads the commercial business behind the first commercial radar satellite flying an optical communication terminal. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds an Executive MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Metropolitan State University of Denver.
