Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business

University of Houston-Downtown

NewSpace Pioneer   -   Venture Capitalist   -   Host: Mission Eve Podcast

Association of Commercial Space Professionals

Advisory Board Member

Member Board Of Directors

Space Forge

Currently women only represent 25% of all Aerospace employees, and to date, only 11% of the people who have explored space have been women. At Mission Eve, we believe that the most important contribution we can make to increasing the number of women working, and eventually living in space, is through sharing the journeys of the women who are already doing it. By sharing these stories, we hope that the next generation of women - those who will actually settle new worlds - will find the role models, mentors, and inspiration they need today so that they can be the founders of new human settlements of tomorrow.

Mission Eve Podcast

Host

SpaceFund is a venture capital firm, investing in the rapidly growing space startup ecosystem.

SpaceFund

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Eden Growth Systems is a farming technology company focused on closed-system ecological design. We are dedicated to finding and implementing the newest farming technologies and designs, with the end goal of giving families and communities the ability to be self sufficient in their food production, here on Earth in the near term, and anywhere in the universe in the long term.

Eden Grow Systems

Brand Delta-V is the first marketing agency exclusively dedicated to the NewSpace industry. We offer clients targeted marketing, pitch-perfect messaging, and right place/ right time engagements with their prospective customers, the media, and investors. Building on expertise and proven techniques in NewSpace marketing and public and investor relations, Brand Delta-V delivers the change in velocity clients need to reach their revenue and fundraising goals.

Brand Delta-V: The NewSpace Marketing Company

Co-Founder

Ramsey Financial Group (RFG) is a Houston, Texas based single-family office. RFG seeks to preserve wealth and where applicable, deploy capital into the most viable, long-term, wealth-building opportunities that have good risk-to-reward metrics. The team’s combined experience affords RFG the opportunity to expertly source and accurately evaluate new investment opportunities across multiple markets and investment classes. RFG identifies opportunities as they are developed, and where applicable or beneficial, seeks participation from other Family Offices, angel networks, and investment vehicles to facilitate portfolio diversification and lower risk.

Ramsey Financial Group

Principal

Advisor

Meagan oversaw all non-technical operations of this rapidly growing space technology and mining startup, with a focus on executive management and team building. She was also directly responsible for fundraising, human resources, IT infrastructure and operations, marketing, accounting and budgeting, facilities, public relations, and all other non-technical business functions.

Deep Space Industries was acquired by Bradford Space in 2018.

Deep Space Industries

Chief Operating Officer

Meagan primarily developed top-level corporate communications strategies and oversaw implementation of coherent and consistent messaging across the web, social media, print media and internal corporate communications. She also completed diverse types of management consulting projects for a wide range of clients, including everything from financial modeling of complex systems, to employee retention strategies, and more. 

Hexagroup is a boutique consulting firm that provides strategy consulting services to a wide range of clients across many industries, with a focus on and passion for energy industry customers in the Houston area.  Services include: corporate communications strategy, creation, and deployment, marketing, public relations, and technology solutions ranging from web implementation to specialized software development.

HexaGroup

Management Consultant

While no longer competition manager, Meagan is still actively involved in the NewSpace Business Plan Competition in her current position on the Board of Directors for the Center for Space Commerce and Finance. The NewSpace Business Plan Competition, a project of the Center for Space Commerce and Finance, aims to assist in the development of entrepreneurial ventures in the space industry while catalyzing deal flow through introductions to investors and potential market partners.

NewSpace Business Plan Competition

Co Founder, Competition Manager

Meagan created and taught unique curriculum, based on real-world scenarios and relevant business case studies.  She developed projects, tests, and assignments to accurately reflect the improvement in communications skills among students with widely differing skill sets in English language and business etiquette.

Professor - Executive Communication

Completed 1099 Non-profit tax return and communicated results and troubleshot problems with the NAWMBA national finance oversight committee and board of directors. Developed a long term marketing strategy and created associated print and online marketing materials.

National Association of Women MBAs

Marketing & Strategy Intern

Rice University Action Learning Project 
Identified key success factors in the funding process for biotech start-up ventures.
Researched the criteria used by non-profit foundations, venture capitalists, angel investors, and research institutions willing to fund or participate in early stage testing of medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

Houston Technology Center

Strategy Intern

Highly successful music and event production company, providing weekly events and large, seasonal concerts throughout Texas from 2008 - 2011.  Targeted relationship marketing and social media influence techniques grew this company from a start-up to the largest company of its kind in the southern US, in less than 2 years.  An exit at a market high point created significant value for investors and founders.

Underworld Entertainment, Inc

Co Founder and Business Manager

Developed a proprietary valuation program for the technology transfer office to consistently and accurately estimate future value and revenue potential of NASA technologies and proposed business spin-offs. Performed analysis of overall office efficiency and identified several key areas that required further development, including internal and external outreach, deal flow efficiency, and information availability and consolidation, then developed and executed specific programs to address these issues. Part-time position in conjunction with final year of the Rice MBA program.

NASA

Technology Transfer Specialist

Multi-million dollar privately funded manufacturer of all-natural herbal products and supplements. Performed pre-startup market segmentation analysis and evaluated potential product lines, marketing avenues, distribution methods, and pricing structures in the herbal supplement market. Developed and implemented online marketing campaigns for three business divisions and 20 initial products. Administered an affiliate program, E-bay store, search engine optimization program and key-word campaigns. Managed the IT and graphic design team through website development, production, and implementation.

SCP INTERNATIONAL, INC

Marketing Director

Personal Financial Management division of Citigroup focused on providing comprehensive solutions for families. Marketed and sold Citigroup financial products and services such as mutual funds, 529 college savings plans, life insurance policies, annuities and legal protection plans.  Earned Series 6 and 63 Securities Licenses and Texas Life and Health Insurance License.

Meagan Murphy Crawford, MBA