Virgin Galactic appoints Sarah E. Kim as EVP, Chief Legal Officer

Virgin Galactic appoints Sarah E. Kim as EVP, Chief Legal Officer

Aerospace and space travel company, Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (the "Company" or "Virgin Galactic"),announced recently that effective on December 5, 2022, Sarah E. Kim will join the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary,.

With over 15 years of legal and finance experience, as an experienced executive, Kim will be responsible for all aspects of the Company's legal, compliance and regulatory functions. This includes advising on future transactions, strategic partnerships, and investments, ensuring securities compliance and corporate governance, managing legal and business risks and emerging and supervising the Company's in-house legal staff and outside counsels.

Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic said, "I am excited to welcome Sarah to the Virgin Galactic team. Sarah's experience in advanced and high growth companies will greatly benefit Virgin Galactic as we advance towards the launch of commercial service and continue to grow. Her track record of working closely with executive leadership and boards across legal, compliance, and regulatory issues is an apt fit for the fast-paced and complicated situations we face in the commercial space industry."

Kim joins Virgin Galactic from Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. ("Topgolf Callaway"), where she attended as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Chief Ethics Officer and Compliance Officer during a period of powerful growth across the company. She supervised all global legal matters affecting the company and its subsidiaries. It includes litigation, intellectual property matters, regulatory work, securities and employment issues, and leading the launch of Topgolf Callaway's sustainability initiative.

Before joining Topgolf Callaway, Kim served as an Associate General Counsel for Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. She operated as lead counsel for several of Petco's most complex and innovative business units. Kim also served as Senior Corporate Counsel at DJO Global, Inc., an American medical device manufacturing company and as Associate General Counsel at Meltwater Group, a software-as-a-service company.

"I am extremely enthusiastic to have the prospect in joining Virgin Galactic at such an important time. It is an energetic and ground-breaking organization that has already changed the way we think about commercial space flight," said Kim. "As someone who has a lifelong interest in the sciences and space, I cannot wait to help play a role in the future of this transformative and rapidly growing industry."

Kim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctor degree from the Hastings College of the Law, University of California.

Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company, pioneering human spaceflight for private individuals and researchers with its advanced air and space vehicles. It is emerging a spaceflight system intended to unite the world to the love, wonder and awe created by space travel and to propose customers a transformative experience.