At the core of our business lies strong leadership, sci-tech and manufacturing experience, plus, a strong belief in bringing US tech manufacturing home to America.  We gave it away. But now has come a renaissance for small scale robotics manufacturing with efficient and down the cost scale materials and fabrication methods. Let’s all cheer for science and technology!

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The CSpaceRobotics Team
Jeff Chaskin – CEO & Chief Product Engineer

Jeff Chaskin – CEO & Chief Product Engineer, is an experienced technology entrepreneur, developer, and integrator with an early career building bio-telemetry systems for NASA’s Ames Research center.  Mr. Chaskin’s patents in battery technology led to his founding of Fusion Batteries which provided battery packs  to JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) as well as the unmanned remote controlled vehicle sectors. Mr. Chaskin was Co-Founder, COO, and President, of Ursus Telecom, manufacturing and providing switches for trans-ocean cable and other large scale fiber optic transmission systems.  Mr. Chaskin took Ursus from inception to successful exit in an underwritten NASDAQ IPO.  He has had, to date, 3 successful venture exits in the technology sector.

Peter Hubshman – CFO & Chief Strategy Officer

Peter Hubshman – CFO & Chief Strategy Officer, is an experienced entrepreneur and executive with roots in the private equity finance sector.  Mr. Hubshman has worked with diverse manufacturing businesses in aerospace components, microwave popcorn bags, injection molded packaging, and clothing manufacturing. He has also worked with notable SaaS products, telecom services, collaborative consumption and e-commerce platforms. As a management consultant in strategy and finance for startups, some notable recent clients include TheDroneRacingLeague (e-sports with first person view UAVs) for their successful C-round in 2019, and Gemic (innovative brand strategy consulting) for their successful A-round in 2021. He is currently a founder at 3 early stage startups: CSpaceRobotics (this company), Web3Enabler (an integrated blockchain payments app on Salesforce); and, FormalFoundry (building guide-rails and auditing tools for use with generative AI models.)

Alexander Chaskin – VP Engineering

Alexander Chaskin – VP Engineering & Manufacturing, is an engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience.  Mr. Chaskin has been working on professional electrical engineering projects since well before high school. He is credited with co-designing battery patents with his father, Jeff, and often interned after school at the Fusion battery plant.  Their early contract with JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) sparked in him a passion for aerospace and spaceflight technologies.  He has since tailored his education toward space applications and technology, and is currently an aerospace engineering student at Embry-Riddle University. Alexander is an avid amateur rocketeer, and has  experience testing, operating, and building drones.

Jim Hubshman – CTO

Jim Hubshman, CTO, Vision Systems & Machine Learning, is an electrical engineer and computer scientist and expert in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning. Most of his technical career has been devoted to developing next-gen naval and intelligence systems for the Navy and the National Security Agency (NSA). The work is classified but may be discussed generally as replacement of optical periscopes for the Virginia Class of nuclear submarines with video computer vision systems; design and development of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs); design of controls, displays, and monitoring systems; and image and text analysis systems for the NSA. Mr. Hubshman also has experience managing engineers in CAD/CAM for aerospace manufacturing with large scale CNC machines. He holds a Masters in Engineering & Computer Science from George Washington University.

Alex Hochberger – CMO

Alex Hochberger, CMO, Digital Marketing Programs is an Entrepreneur and digital marketing professional with a background in software engineering, network design, systems design, and advanced database design and programming. “Hoch” owned and operated a successful Internet Marketing company, was an early pioneer in affiliate marketing, and is currently launching blockchain, robotics, and AI projects with MuKn.com as one of the startup studio operators. With deep roots in the South Florida local tech scene and an understanding of Florida’s unique business culture, Alex runs point on an advanced software stack for marketing integration across multiple organizations. He is a graduate of the engineering school at MIT and has an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Our pledge: We build this now so the future of our local and national communities will be more secure. It’s our mission to establish manufacturing and innovation centers to serve-up awesome and affordable intelligent robotics, and, to always be near to where great ideas are known to be born.

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