Agile Space Industries Adds Jonathan Baliff to Its Board and Opens a Bellevue Engineering Office

Agile Space Industries, a Veteran Ventures Capital Fund II portfolio company and developer of in-space chemical propulsion systems, announced on October 15 the opening of a new office at Sunset North in Bellevue, Washington. The 5,470-square-foot office opens with seven employees and can grow to about 30 as regional operations expand, and Chief Technology Officer Jake Mills will be based there. The office focuses on engineering and program management for advanced propulsion systems used in government and commercial space missions, and joins the company's Durango, Colorado headquarters and its operations in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma.

"Seattle has a remarkable concentration of aerospace talent, innovative companies and organizations," Mills said, and establishing a presence there "allows us to tap into that expertise, strengthen industry relationships" and build on the capabilities Agile is developing for its customers.

On October 5 Agile announced that Jonathan Baliff has joined its Board of Directors. Baliff is a former U.S. Air Force aviator and engineer and an operating partner at Genesis Park, where he played a central role in the formation and financing of Redwire Corporation and later served as its chief financial officer. He was previously president and CEO of Bristow Group and held senior leadership positions at NRG Energy and Credit Suisse. In the same announcement Theo Squires was named Director of Strategy and Corporate Development; Squires was an intelligence officer in the Royal Australian Navy, where his work included a bilateral space program involving the United States and Australia, and later advised advanced manufacturing companies at Boston Consulting Group. Tom Rubin is leaving the board and will continue to support the company in an advisory capacity. The release ties the appointments to Agile's selection for the SpaceWERX Strategic Funding Increase program and to adding complete propulsion subsystems to what the company supplies.

Chris Pearson, Agile's CEO, said the company's "next phase of growth requires the financial capability and oversight to match our technical expertise." Baliff said Agile "has proven it has the technology and operational expertise to compete, win, and profitably grow."

The appointments follow Jason Wright's arrival as President in early October and a year in which Agile closed a $17 million Series A in February, with Veteran Ventures Capital as the second-largest investor, was selected for STRATFI and opened its expanded Durango headquarters.

VVC's view: in six weeks Agile has added a President from Lockheed Martin's propulsion business, a board member who helped form and finance Redwire and later served as its CFO, and a corporate development lead, and then opened an office in a metro area with the aerospace talent its release describes. Read together, those are the moves of a company preparing to produce at a higher rate and to finance that production, which is what the STRATFI selection is for. We would rather see the bench built before the ramp than during it, and this is the order Agile has chosen.

Sources: Agile Space Industries Expands to Seattle Area with New Bellevue Office — October 15, 2026; Agile Space Industries Strengthens Board and Corporate Development to Support Continued Growth — October 5, 2026; Agile Space Industries Expands Leadership Structure to Support Next Phase of Growth — September 28, 2026; Agile Space Industries Oversubscribed $17M Series A Accelerates Growth of In-Space Propulsion Capabilities; Agile Space Industries Series A company release via SpaceNews — February 19, 2026; Agile Space Industries Celebrates Durango Headquarters Expansion with Ribbon Cutting; VVC: Agile selected for STRATFI and Durango expansion; also states VVC was the second-largest Series A investor; VVC's original Agile investment announcement — first capital deployment from Fund II.