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#1 2026-06-02 20:42:06

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Personality: Greg Maryniak

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Gregg Maryniak
Co-Founder, Director and  Secretary, X PRIZE Foundation, Vice Chairman Anne and Charles Lindbergh Foundation, Emeritus Chairman of Space and Energy/Environment Tracks at Singularity University

Glencoe, Missouri, United States

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Singularity University

Northwestern University School of Law

About
Original Executive Director of the XPRIZE Foundation
Former CEO of the Space Studies Institute of Princeton
Associate Founder of the International Space University
Emeritus Director of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium
Former Vice President, St. Louis Science Center
Emeritus Chair of the Space and Energy and Environment Tracks of Singularity University
Flight Director for Erik Lindberghs' 2002 New Spirit of St. Louis flights

Explorers Club Fellow
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Distinguished Lecturer
Recipient of the Tsiolkovsky Medal for Spaceflight
Space Frontier Foundation's Vision to Reality Award for starting the Lunar Prospector Team
Recipient of the FAA's Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
Recipient of the Greater St. Louis Flight Instructors' James G. Byrnes Excellence in Aviation award… more

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Outstanding - a brilliant beacon of Signal amidst an ocean of Noise!

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Experience
Co Chair, Energy and Space tracks

Singularity University

2010 - Present · 16 yrs 6 mos

Mountain View, California

Vice Chairman

Anne and Charles Lindbergh Foundation

2005 - Present · 21 yrs 6 mos

Certified Flight Instructor and Commercial Pilot

Freelance · Freelance

2002 - Present · 24 yrs 6 mos

XPRIZE logo
Co Founder, Executive Director (through 2005) Director & Secretary

XPRIZE

1997 - Present · 29 yrs 6 mos

Saint Louis Science Center logo
Vice President, Energy and Aerospace

Saint Louis Science Center

Feb 2005 - Feb 2012 · 7 yrs 1 mo

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Education
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law logo
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Juris Doctor

1975 – 1978

Benedictine University logo
Benedictine University

B.A., Political Science

1971 – 1975

Skills (19)
Fundraising

Endorsed by Dick Fleming and 1 other who is highly skilled at this


Endorsed by 13 colleagues at XPRIZE

99+ endorsements

Strategic Planning

Endorsed by Hawes Phil who is highly skilled at this

Endorsed by 5 colleagues at XPRIZE

99+ endorsements

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I have never met Mr. Maryniak but his name is familiar to me because he has been so active in space development over so many years.

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#2 2026-06-02 20:45:30

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Re: Personality: Greg Maryniak

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