Keegan Kirkpatrick

CEO and founder of RedWorks

Keegan is the CEO and founder of RedWorks, a construction machinery startup in Lancaster, California. A graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, before turning entrepreneur he worked as an engineer at Masten Space Systems on the Mojave Air and Spaceport, taking part in more than dozen flight tests. An aerospace engineer by training and trade, Keegan has designed, built and tested everything from boost pumps to satellite demonstrators. He’s taken part in dozens of rocket tests, led university projects to cast solid rocket motors and helped design simulated space missions.

In 2015, Keegan founded RedWorks with Paul Petros, Susan Jennings, and Lino Stavole to compete in and make it to the finals of the NASA Centennial 3D Printed Habitat Challenge. His team are taking their technology back to Earth to make it possible to print building materials on-site using just local resources. This technology will address housing needs on Earth using technology Made for Mars.”