THE ASTRALIS CONSTELLATION
Trusted specialists. Shared doctrine. Coherent delivery.
Trusted specialists. Shared doctrine. Coherent delivery.
Astralis is a UK-governed strategic integration company. It assembles trusted people, technologies and international supply chains to solve complex security and resilience problems that no single specialist can solve alone.
Astralis is a UK-governed strategic integration company. It assembles trusted people, technologies and international supply chains to solve complex security and resilience problems that no single specialist can solve alone.
The Constellation is how Astralis organises that trust: a network of operators, engineers, legal professionals, advisers and institutional leaders, each with proven depth in a distinct field. Astralis supplies the shared doctrine, governance and integration layer that turns individual excellence into coherent delivery.
The Constellation is how Astralis organises that trust: a network of operators, engineers, legal professionals, advisers and institutional leaders, each with proven depth in a distinct field. Astralis supplies the shared doctrine, governance and integration layer that turns individual excellence into coherent delivery.
Its operating philosophy is Multi-Domain Aegis: resilience to prevent escalation, and peace through credible capability.
Its operating philosophy is Multi-Domain Aegis: resilience to prevent escalation, and peace through credible capability.
Different disciplines. One operating model.
SELECT A SPECIALIST
FOUNDER
Omar Askari
Omar founded Astralis to leverage trusted global relationships 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.
In previous roles, including Global Head of Business Development at Revolut, he led partnerships and market-development work in highly regulated areas of financial services, where commercial progress depends on compliance and governance.
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.
FOUNDER · FOUNDATION
Omar Askari
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Founder
Omar founded Astralis to leverage trusted global relationships 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.
In previous roles, including Global Head of Business Development at Revolut, he led partnerships and market-development work in highly regulated areas of financial services, where commercial progress depends on compliance, governance and reaching the pareto optimal solution.
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 collaboration.
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.
Sarah Petrie
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Conflict Solutions
At Astralis, Sarah leads Legal, providing the governance judgement and public-interest discipline required for responsible international work. She is a former Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.
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.
Dr Carl Lander
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Ordnance and Defence Industrial Partnerships
Dr Lander’s career runs from elite sport and the British Army to the leadership of major institutions. He has served in the HAC and later 16 Air Assault as a trooper in the British Army Reserves and later a training officer and mountain specialist. He competed on the national and international stage in both MMA and boxing and was honoured to coach for his country and play a small part in the sports governance and development.
This formative grounding in discipline, physical courage, and performance under pressure served as a solid foundation and a standard he carried into education, rising to advise governments, chair international councils and lead some of the world’s most prestigious educational institutions as a Chief Executive.
His work has been recognised across continents receiving awards and recognition for his outstanding contributions. Most recently he was selected as a finalist for the Pearson school leader of the year award and in 2025 received a Fellowships by Royal Charter for his contributions to education (Chartered College of Teaching).
As CEO of Astralis Arena, Dr Lander leads the group’s ordnance and defence-industrial partnerships, work that draws directly on his military grounding, his instinct for standards and training, and his experience building and governing complex institutions.
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 global engineering teams in Australia, Europe and Asia.
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.
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.
The strength of the Constellation lies in its combined light and gravity
The strength of the Constellation lies in its combined light and gravity
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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