Sarah "Sassie" Duggleby

Sassie grew up in Plano, Texas, studied biomedical engineering at Texas A&M, and earned her MBA from Virginia Tech. She began her career at National Instruments, honed her skills at fiber optic, biotech, and cargo transport startups, and worked at Virgin Orbit before co-founding Venus Aerospace in 2020. One of the few women CEOs in aerospace, Sassie is leading the charge to build the world’s first high-speed plane powered by a next-generation rocket engine—one that could enable two-hour global travel.