An Augsburg College graduate with a BA in Physics, Lars was a Fullbright Scholar in space and plasma physics at the Univ. of Oslo. He earned a PhD from Boston Univ. where he studied plasma turbulence in super-computing simulations. In addition to serving as PI for many space-related projects at Draper Laboratory and John Hopkins Univ., Lars founded 3 companies. Most recently, he led OmniEarth through its acquisition by EagleView Technologies where he served as Senior VP of Business Development, overseeing machine learning-based analytics for insurance, public utility and land management industries.