Our Team

Teviet Creighton
Director of CARA, Project Lead of STARGATE

Alma Miller
Assistant Director of Special Projects & Chair of New Space Entrepreneurship Working Group

Volker Quetschke
Chair of Technology Working Group & Chair of ARCC Executive Committee

Maria Degwitz
CARA Administrative Assistant

Andy Miller
Director of Stargate Academy

Yingchen Yang
Chair of the Blue Energy Working Group

Maria Del Carmen Huerta
REU and Student Engagement Coordinator

Angela Chapman
Chair of Education Working Group

Linda Ufland
Manager of the Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center and the STLP
Past Team Members

Dr. Fredrick A. Jenet
Creator of CARA and STARGATE

Randall Charbeneau
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research with The University of Texas System

Irv Downing
Special Assistant to the UTRGV President

Ben Reyna
Associate Vice President of Security and Campus Affairs

Richard Price

Joseph Romano

Matthew Benacquista

John Sossi
Director of International Trade

Fernando Gonzalez