Rafael Spears

Rafael Spears is the General Manager of Global Strategy at Carbice, Rafael owns the Carbice strategy for revenue growth in global markets. Rafael aligns Carbice’s strategy to the go-to-market plans and collaborates with the CTO and Product Marketing to accelerate customer adoption. Rafael is responsible for customer success metrics, opportunity capture strategy and evolving the Customer Success team.

Mr. Spears brings over 25 years of Aerospace and Defense experience to Carbice. Prior to Carbice Mr. Spears was the Director of Commercial Applications at the Aerospace Corporation. He created and managed a directorate responsible for identifying technology innovation in the commercial marketplace and accelerating TRL development through the deployment of Aerospace Corporation’s extensive laboratory infrastructure and system engineering subject matter expertise. Prior to the Aerospace Corporation Mr. Spears served as Vice President and President of Electric Propulsion and Microwave Device Divisions at L3/Harris Corporation. Mr. Spears started his Aerospace career at Boeing Satellite System where he held multiple positions, most recently Director of Satellite Assembly, Integration & Test.

Mr. Spears holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo and completed the Global Leadership Program at Thunderbird School of Global Management.