S3NOVA

Leadership

A team built for institutional execution.

S3NOVA is led by operators and capital allocators who have spent careers scaling regulated, capital-intensive technology platforms — and who understand that execution, not advocacy, determines outcomes.

Philip H. Brady, Director & President, S3NOVA Partners

Director & President

Philip H. Brady

Philip leads execution across S3NOVA's infrastructure programs, regulatory strategy, and ecosystem partnerships, with direct authority over the Centers of Excellence model anchoring the firm's deployment thesis. He has spent his career building the institutional frameworks that move advanced Sea, Sky, and Space technologies from validated capability to deployed infrastructure.

Paul Brooks, Director & CEO, S3NOVA Partners

Director & CEO

Paul Brooks

Paul leads firm strategy, capital formation, and commercial execution across S3NOVA's Sea, Sky, and Space mandates, serving as principal point of contact for senior partners, regulators, and institutional allocators. He has spent his career convening investors, manufacturers, operators, and public-sector stakeholders into commercially viable consortia at scale.

A.J. Ripin, Board Chair, S3NOVA Partners

Board Chair

A.J. Ripin

A.J. chairs S3NOVA's board with decades of capital markets and institutional governance experience across regulated, capital-intensive platforms. He oversees capital formation discipline, ecosystem positioning, and long-duration partnerships spanning the firm's Sea, Sky, and Space mandates.

Max W. Hooper, PhD, Managing Director, S3NOVA Partners

Managing Director

Max W. Hooper, PhD

Dr. Hooper guides S3NOVA's strategic direction and consortium coordination, drawing on a multi-decade career at the intersection of advanced technology deployment and institutional capital formation. He brings deep relationships across executive education, sovereign allocators, and public-sector leadership directly relevant to the firm's mandates.

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