THE ASTRALIS CONSTELLATION
Different disciplines. One operating model.
Dr Carl Lander
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Ordnance and Defence Industrial Partnerships
At Astralis, Dr Carl Lander leads Ordnance and Defence Industrial Partnerships, drawing on military grounding, exacting standards and experience governing complex institutions. He served as a paratrooper in the British Army and competed as a boxer for England before building an international career in education leadership. As Principal and Chief Executive of Karachi Grammar School, he directs a selective institution of approximately 2,400 students across three campuses and chairs Synergy, the Cambridge Schools Community in Pakistan. His earlier appointments include headships in Chile and Azerbaijan. Dr Lander holds the National Professional Qualification for Headship, a Master’s in Educational Leadership and Fellowship of the Chartered College of Teaching, alongside extensive board responsibility for safeguarding and child protection.
Stephanie Reibel
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Business Development
At Astralis, Stephanie leads Business Development, shaping how the company presents its capabilities, develops partnerships and builds client relationships across international markets. Her career spans entertainment, technology and mission-driven ventures, with senior work in business development, talent relations, marketing and production. She has held roles at Advantage Public Relations, Thoughtful Media Group, Vixi and all3media, and co-founded Twin Hearts Productions. Stephanie currently leads Senior Marketing and PR at Innova Nanojet Technologies, advises MASSIVE STUDIOS and the GEANCO Foundation, and founded the legal technology venture EverParent. Her ability to understand audiences, communicate with impact and establish durable trust strengthens the relationship layer within the Astralis operating model.
Dr Omar Ahmed
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Middle East Investor & Governmental Relations
At Astralis, Dr Omar Baig leads investor, institutional and governmental relationships across the Middle East, connecting UK-governed delivery with regional capital, institutional support and long-term partnerships. He develops and stewards senior relationships with investors, institutions, government stakeholders and commercial partners across complex and regulated markets. His work provides a trusted relationship layer between Astralis and the region, helping align engineering and delivery capability with sources of capital, strategic support and institutional confidence. The role calls for judgement, cultural fluency, discretion and a careful approach to compliant cross-border commercial diplomacy, qualities central to the Constellation model and its ability to assemble credible international partnerships.
Dr Arsalan Daudi
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Biotech
At Astralis, Dr Arsalan Daudi advises on biotechnology and United States Department of Defense procurement, helping partners understand supplier readiness, acquisition pathways, qualification requirements and government evidence standards. Over more than eighteen years, he has originated and closed non-dilutive funding across biotechnology, medical technology, defence health and agricultural technology in the United States and United Kingdom. He has led grant strategies spanning CDMRP, DHA, DARPA, USSOCOM, NIH SBIR and STTR, and ARPA-H programmes. Earlier, he managed more than twenty institutional investor clients and generated substantial life-science diligence revenue. Dr Daudi earned his PhD through the University of East Anglia and Rothamsted Research, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of California, Davis.
Sarah Petrie
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Legal
At Astralis, Sarah leads Legal, providing the governance judgement and public-interest discipline required for responsible international work. She is an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where her practice has focused on unfair and deceptive conduct by mortgage servicers, debt buyers and companies that mishandled personal data. Her work has contributed to multimillion-dollar settlements, consumer restitution and stronger protections for borrowers, including measures addressing financial discrimination. Sarah also co-founded and funded EverParent, a legal technology venture supporting self-represented parents in family courts. Her enforcement experience, builder’s instinct and commitment to the rule of law anchor Astralis’s legal discipline across borders.
Ali Muzaffar
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Engineering
At Astralis, Ali leads Starforge Engineering, providing the production-grade software foundation beneath secure systems delivery. He is the founder of Alpha Mu Digital, an independent venture studio and software house delivering mobile applications, web applications and APIs through engineering teams in Australia and Pakistan. Earlier, Ali worked at BCG Digital Ventures and led development and quality-assurance teams through demanding growth cycles. He brings deep Android and web-development expertise, an active record of open-source contribution and a Master’s in Engineering Management from the University of California, Irvine. Through a strategic engineering partnership, Alpha Mu gives Astralis disciplined delivery capacity and the practical ability to turn complex concepts into deployed products.
Omar Askari
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Founder
Omar founded Astralis to turn specialist trust into coherent delivery across security and resilience. He is an operator and investor with more than two decades of experience originating and closing complex deals across payments, technology platforms and capital markets in the United Kingdom, United States, Europe and Asia. As Chief Business Officer at NayaPay, he led partnership and market-development work in a highly regulated area of financial services, where commercial progress depends on compliance, governance and institutional confidence. His career has been shaped by work at the intersection of business, government and regulation, translating difficult conversations into executed agreements. That discipline underpins the Constellation’s shared operating model and Astralis’s approach to accountable cross-border integration.
Each member brings independent depth. Astralis provides the trusted framework through which those capabilities can combine, trade and collaborate in response to complex international requirements.
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