In January the Board of Trustees elected new Members–At-Large who will begin three-year terms in May.
Michael Gazarik, University of Colorado Boulder
Tina Ghataore, Aerospacelab
Jill Marlowe, Retired
Ben Linder, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, also was elected to fulfill an unexpired term.
Also in January, the Council of Directors elected Jeanette Domber, BAE Systems, as Integration and Outreach Division Chief. She will begin her three-year term in May. Read more about our volunteers below. See more results from the 2025 AIAA Election.
Get to Know Our Newly Elected Volunteers
Board of Trustees Members–At-Large
Michael Gazarik, University of Colorado Boulder
Gazarik currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Engineering Management Program for the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado. He is also a part-time Staff Member at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He led the creation of the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA and served as the first Associate Administrator championing NASA’s rapid development and incorporation of transformative technologies. Joining Ball Aerospace in 2015, Gazarik served over 8 years as the Vice President of Engineering providing overall strategic and operational leadership of engineering, program execution, and technology. Earlier in his career, he served as the acting director of the Engineering Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center and led programs developing an infrared camera for on-orbit shuttle inspections and entry, descent and landing instrumentation for the Curiosity and Perseverance Mars missions. Prior to joining NASA, Gazarik served as project manager for the Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer project at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He worked in the private sector on software and firmware development. Gazarik understands that diverse teams develop better solutions. Under his leadership, engineering at Ball Aerospace saw a marked increase in diversity at all levels of the organization. Gazarik earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (1987). He earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1997, respectively. He is an AIAA Fellow and former Chair of the AIAA Corporate Strategic Committee.
Tina Ghataore, Aerospacelab
Ghataore joined Aerospacelab in 2023 as Group Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer, and CEO of Aerospacelab’s new North American branch. Prior to this, she served as Chief Commercial Officer of Mynaric and President of Mynaric USA where she led the company’s efforts to position Mynaric as the preferred laser communication provider for aerospace application for government and commercial markets. In 2022, Ghataore’s contribution to the aerospace industry was recognized by both the public and industry peers alike when she was voted Via Satellite’s “Satellite Executive of the Year.” Before Mynaric, she was the Executive Vice President of Inflight Connectivity Solutions at Yahsat, where she was responsible for the overall strategy and execution of enabling the organization to launch into the Mobility Satcom Services business. In 2007, she founded The EKKAM Group, a strategic management consulting firm focused on serving clients in the aerospace/aviation and telecom industries. Ghataore held multiple leadership roles at Panasonic Avionics Corporation, where she was instrumental in efforts to launch the Panasonics Global Communications Services business. She also was charged to establish the strategy and grow the software, applications, and media business, serving the In-Flight Entertainment and Communications industry. Ghataore began her career at The Boeing Company’s Satellite Systems business unit. Ghataore received her Bachelor of Honors Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Kingston University in the U.K. She is also a graduate of the International Space University.
Jill Marlowe, Retired
Marlowe retired in December 2024 as the NASA Digital Transformation Officer, where she led the agency to conceive, architect, and accelerate enterprise digital solutions that transform NASA’s work, workforce and workplace to achieve bolder missions faster and more affordably than ever before. In this role, she defined NASA’s digital transformation vision, strategy, policies, and partnerships to accelerate NASA’s transformation progress in four target areas: engineering, scientific discovery, program/project management decision making, and business operations. Previously, Marlowe was the Associate Center Director, Technical, at NASA Langley Research Center. In this role, she focused on accelerating Langley’s internal and external collaborations as well infusing digital technologies critical for a modern federal laboratory to thrive in a digitally-enabled, hyper-connected, fast-paced, and globally-competitive world. In 2008, Marlowe was selected to the Senior Executive Service as the Deputy Director for Engineering at NASA Langley and went on to serve as the center’s Engineering Director and Research Director. She began her NASA career in 1990 as a structural analyst developing space flight instruments to characterize Earth’s atmosphere. Marlowe earned a B.S. in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Degree of Engineer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Washington University. Marlowe is an AIAA Fellow, and has received a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals, election to the Virginia Tech Academy of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering Excellence and being voted the 2017 NASA Champion of Innovation.
Ben Linder, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Linder is Vice President, 777 Chief Project Engineer (CPE) within Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA). He is responsible for overall product integrity and safety of 777 airplanes. He manages design requirements, authorizes design changes and airplane configurations, and assures design quality and regulatory compliance. Previously, Linder held leadership positions as 777/777X Director of Engineering, Director of Propulsion Systems Engineering, Director of Flight Sciences, 777 Fleet Support Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer of Aerodynamic Characteristics and Flight Performance, 777 Safety, Certification and Performance Senior Manager, and Everett (747/767/777) Airplane Safety Engineering manager. Linder joined Boeing as an Aerodynamics Engineer where he enjoyed assignments ranging from product development, sales support, flight test, certification, and fleet support. He received his Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, his Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from the University of Washington, and his Master of Business Administration from Seattle University. He is involved with AIAA, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and formerly with Snohomish County Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Executive Board. Linder enjoys continuous learning in the areas of aviation, international business, and engineering.
Integration and Outreach Division Chief
Jeanette Domber, BAE Systems
Domber is a Technical Fellow in the Payload Systems Engineering group in the Space and Mission Systems sector of BAE Systems, Inc. (formerly Ball Aerospace). She has over 25 years of experience in space systems and currently works as an advanced systems manager for national space early architecture development. Previously, Domber was the astrophysics mission area lead for BAE Systems’ Civil Space business unit. She has served as the deputy program manager for Ball’s efforts on the Wide Field Instrument for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the payload manager for the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Phase A study, and the program manager for the Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) program, and was the Ball lead for the STIS repair undertaken during Hubble Servicing Mission 4. Domber is a lifetime member of AIAA, having joined in undergrad. Her many AIAA volunteer leadership positions include Technical Activities Division (TAD) Aerospace Design and Structures Group (ADSG) Director; TAD ADSG Deputy Director for Forums, Structures; Structures Technical Committee (TC) Chair, Vice Chair, Procedures Subcommittee Chair; SciTech ADSG Technical Forum Chair; Structures, Structural Dynamics, & Materials (SDM) Structures Technical Chair; and JSR Associate Editor. She received an AIAA Sustained Service Award in 2021. Domber holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from the University of Colorado Boulder in Aerospace Engineering Sciences. Domber is an AIAA Fellow, a former member of the Structures Technical Discipline Team for the NASA Engineering & Safety Center, a Fellow of SPIE, a member of the American Astronomical Society, and attended the National Academy of Engineering’s invited Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
