Richard Davis

Richard C. Davis, is the Chief Executive Officer of Xterax Corporation II. He brings over three decades of experience spanning corporate finance, private equity and the space industry. He is a founder and managing member of ArgoSat, a premier global advisory firm focused on the space industry that was founded in November 2009. From May 2021 until May 2026, Mr. Davis served as a managing director of Antarctica Data Partners, a private equity firm focused on space infrastructure investments. Mr. Davis served as the CEO of Descartes Labs, Inc. a geospatial data analytics company from July 2022 until its acquisition by EarthDaily Analytics Corp in October 2024. Mr. Davis served as the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Endurance Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: EDNC) from April 2021 until the completion of its Business Combination with SatixFy (NYSE: SATX) in October 2022. Mr. Davis also serves as President and a board member of Constellation Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: CSTA). In addition, he serves on the boards of EarthDaily Analytics Corp., EarthDaily Constellation Group Inc., AscendArc and EarthDaily Federal. Prior to ArgoSat, Mr. Davis was president, and later CFO, for ProtoStar Limited from April 2008 until July 2009, a communications satellite operator which raised over $500 million and launched two DTH satellites over Asia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Davis was a private equity investor Principal at VantagePoint Venture Partners from October 2002 until March 2008, a private equity and venture capital firm with $4 billion of assets under management. His focus was on media/telecom as well as semiconductors/semiconductor capital equipment. Before that he was a vice president and founding member of the Lehman Brothers Communication Fund from September 1999 to September 2002, which was an $800 million private equity fund focused on communications infrastructure investments. In these roles, Mr. Davis was involved in equity and debt investments, asset acquisitions and dispositions and mergers and other Business Combinations or spin-offs for approximately two dozen companies in various investment lifecycle stages. Mr. Davis started his corporate finance career as an associate at Salomon Brothers Inc. He was previously an instructor pilot in the United States Air Force. Mr. Davis received his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and his BS in Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology.