Daniel Gaspersz, an entrepreneur from Rotterdam, is on a mission: He wants to build and grow ventures that take on humanity’s greatest challenges and push the world forward through social innovation. He was already passionate about this mission during his student time at the Erasmus University, where he co-founded an online mentoring platform that won the Philips Innovation Award in 2014.
Now he’s realizing this mission in the space industry, where he works closely with space pioneer Rick Tumlinson and former NASA employees to build the New Worlds Institute, a US-based organization aimed at enabling humanity to thrive in space. He also is the founder of Hashtagmars.com, a global community of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs dedicated to realizing human settlement on Mars.
Daniel is also the founder of Awesome Foundation Amsterdam and an alumnus of ECE’s Student Entrepreneurs Excellence Program.
