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Eli Giovanetti

Co-Founder & COO, Amca

About

Eli Giovanetti is co-founder and COO of Amca, where he leads operations and engineering for the company's component manufacturing portfolio. He spent four years at SpaceX in operations engineering and Falcon integration, ultimately as Senior Director of Falcon Integration and Subassemblies, where he was responsible for the production rate ramp of the world's most reliable orbital-class launch vehicle. Before SpaceX he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a mechanical engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, the Navy's nuclear propulsion lab. He holds a BS from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Duke.

Previous roles

  • Senior Director, Falcon Integration & Subassemblies, SpaceX
  • Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
  • Mechanical Engineer, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

Notable work

  • Co-founded Amca to transfer SpaceX-style rapid product-development practices into aerospace and defense component manufacturing by closing the loop among design, supply chain, and production
  • As an Amca co-founder, is publicly associated with the company's RAPID operating model, which integrates AI-enabled design, prototyping, qualification testing, and manufacturing across an AS9100D-certified factory network

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