Dr. Alex Hillman

Alex Hillman is a technologist and entrepreneur with a myriad of technical and management experiences in defense, academia, and the tech space. A co-founder at RT8, Alex acts as CFO, managing both day-to-day finance operations and strategic fiscal decision making for RT8. Alex holds a PhD from the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A graduate of the Air Force's Test Pilot School, Alex has an eclectic academic and professional background with a focus on delivering cyber-physical systems to deliver value to stakeholders from small projects to enterprise-scale initiatives. Prior to co-founding RT8, Alex met his co-founders as a consultant to BasisTech, a startup accelerator in the Boston area. Alex has built a career as a military officer, independent consultant, and operator, and he brings that unique expertise to the team at RT8.