Fatih Ozmen

Fatih Ozmen is CEO and co-owner of private defense and aerospace company Sierra Nevada Corp. Its Dream Chaser spaceplane has been tapped by NASA to ferry food, water, supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station.Ozmen immigrated from Turkey in the 1980s to pursue a master's degree in engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.He and his wife, Eren, bought Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) in 1994 when it had just 20 employees; it now has nearly 4,000 employees in 33 locations.SNC is best-known for providing souped-up military planes, loaded with cameras, sensors, coms systems and navigation gear, to the military.