Ashley Pilipiszyn is the Founder and CEO of Besxar, building the world’s first reusable orbital foundries—Fabships. Besxar leverages the ultra-high vacuum of space to manufacture next-generation semiconductor wafers for AI, quantum computing, and directed-energy systems—ushering in a new era of space industrialization.
Before founding Besxar, Ashley served as OpenAI’s first Technical Director to the CTO, where she helped launch GPT-3, DALL·E, and Codex, and stood up the early developer platform that has enabled thousands of AI products worldwide. Earlier, at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, she led the DOE-funded Grid Resilience & Intelligence Platform, deploying AI to dynamically monitor and protect U.S. critical infrastructure—work that bridged energy systems, microgrids, and data center operations.