Frederick Giarrusso
Building and Guiding Market-Creating Companies
For more than three decades I have founded and led companies across aerospace, artificial intelligence, energy, and financial services—structuring capital, building organizations, and helping ambitious technologies become viable enterprises.
$1T+
Industries Helped Create
$5B+
Capital Structured
30+ Years
Building Companies
Global
US · Europe · Middle East
Market creation is ultimately a creative act—aligning capital, technology, institutions, and leadership so ambitious ideas become viable enterprises.
Strategic Advisory
Capital Architecture
Designing equity, debt, and project-finance structures that enable ambitious deep-technology ventures to scale.
Strategic Inflection Points
Guiding companies through pivotal moments—major capital formation, international expansion, and other decisions that shape the trajectory of the enterprise.
Market Creation
Aligning capital, engineering, institutions, and leadership to transform ambitious technologies into viable and enduring enterprises.
Selected Experience
Rotary Rocket Company
Co-founded the first serious, private space-launch company in 1996. Built a team of 300 and designed, built and flight-tested a full-scale vehicle within two years.
Data Digest Corporation
Built the first commercial Bayesian network learned entirely from data, with no human tuning—early proof that machines could infer structure on their own. Launch customers included Citibank, Sony, AstraZeneca.
Finance Technology Leverage
Developed innovative capital structures—including insurance-backed financing—for aerospace, energy, and frontier technology projects.
Areas of Focus
Artificial Intelligence | Space & Aerospace | Energy Systems | Frontier Technology | Capital Formation
Perspective
I hold a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, where I also taught entrepreneurship, ethics, and decision analysis.
I studied electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and mathematics and computer science at Princeton University.
I serve on corporate boards and advise companies globally.
Contact
I take on a limited number of projects each year.
Inquiries are handled confidentially.