Pomerantz Moves from X PRIZE to Virgin Galactic

Will Pomerantz is moving up the alphabet.

After nearly six years running prize competitions at the X Prize Foundation, Will has accepted a new job as Vice President for Special Projects at Virgin Galactic.

This week also marks the end of a journey and the start of another for me personally. This piece of news I share with considerable sadness, but also a great deal of excitement: after almost six years of working at the X PRIZE Foundation, the time has come for me to move on. As of the end of this week, I will be leaving my post as an employee of the X PRIZE Foundation and headed to a new position as the Vice President for Special Projects at Virgin Galactic.

This transition is made much easier because I am so incredibly thrilled with the progress of the competition, and so confident that it will be a complete success. It also is much easier because the transition is so natural: at Virgin Galactic, I will be helping build on the dream of the Ansari X PRIZE by truly opening the space frontier. I am incredibly excited to be joining the spectacular team at Virgin Galactic, and I look forward to sharing more thoughts about that in the future.

Best of luck to Will.