Lisa Thomas is the Director of Programs at Honeybee Robotics in Pasadena, California. Her team manages sample acquisition and planetary exploration projects, primarily for NASA. She has experience in systems engineering, flight operations, and project management for spaceflight missions, earning a NASA JSC Group Achievement Award in 2016 as Deputy Program Manager for the BEAM technology demonstration on the International Space Station. Ms. Thomas received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Canterbury, New Zealand.