About Flexure Engineering

Executive Team

We are like-minded, entrepreneurial spirits who have come together to run an aerospace engineering company committed to a positive triple bottom line – people, planet, and profit.

We share common vision, values and purpose and are focused on mission and results.

We also believe in giving ourselves and our engineers the competitive advantages gained through mastery of effective interpersonal communication skills, leadership and change management, and being high performance individuals on results-oriented teams.

Gregory Scharfstein
Chief Engineer & Founder

In 2000, I traveled south to Baltimore, MD where I attended The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. I then started working for the University with the Instrument Development Group (IDG), small groups of engineers that built scientific instruments from scratch for professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and around the world. As I worked for the IDG, I received my Masters in Mechanical Engineering by attend the JHU Engineering School in 2004.

After over eight and a half years with the IDG, I decided to take a huge step in my life. I left my job and started my own engineering company. In January 2009, Flexure, LLC became a reality.

Today, NASA is our biggest client. Our engineers are currently working on the James Webb Space Telescope and the NIRcam instrument at the Goddard Space Flight Center and at Lockheed Martin in CA.


Russell Cox
CEO

For me, it has been a long road from my grade school days of watching the Apollo missions from my home in Houston, Texas, to being the CEO of a startup aerospace firm that is currently supporting the James Webb Space Telescope and will soon be supporting our return to the Moon and expeditions to the Lunar Poles.

I wrote my first business plan in 1981 for an aerospace consulting concept for the Shuttle Getaway Special program. In 1983-4, I spent two years in Silicon Valley creating a computer startup, Oak Multi-Computer. In the years that followed, I returned to school and was awarded two Bachelor of Science degrees, in Physics and Mathematics, from the University of Texas at Austin. Now I have come full circle and am the CEO of an Aerospace startup supporting the James Webb Space Telescope.


Bonnie Dubrow
Head of Marketing,  Training & Events

I’m a member of the executive team and in charge of Marketing, Training and Events. Being part of the Flexure team is a “dream come true.”

I’ve been living on the Space Coast since 1980. I often wondered why, as earning a living has often been challenging. Yet I had fallen in love with the area and had grown deep roots here, so I stayed. Little did I know that I would end up in the right place at the right time.

As Head of Marketing, I’m excited about the opportunity to help establish Flexure as a world-class engineering company serving the aerospace and scientific communities with a strong presence on the “Space and Energy Coast.”

While there are many outstanding professionals in every field, all things being equal, the person who’s the best at social dynamics wins. As Head of Training, I develop and deliver experiential, interactive programs on how to be a super communicator, leader, sales person and change agent. We offer these trainings to insure Flexure engineers are sought after by other scientists and engineers who are looking for the right people to add critical capabilities to their teams.

As Head of Flexure Events, I work with other organizations to co-host dynamic, interactive in-person and virtual programs designed to bring together scientists and engineers from previously independent fields to communicate, cooperate and collaborate. Participants build strong relationships, learn about what’s new and important in the different fields, and explore opportunities to create and implement ‘out-of-the-box’ solutions to previously unsolvable problems. Organizations with requirements to conduct EPO (Education and Public Outreach) programs participate in Flexure Events to fulfill this commitment, and scientists and engineers from other companies, government agencies, and educational institutions have the opportunity to participate in training programs designed to increase mastery of social dynamics skills.

My eclectic interests, work experience and education allow me to fulfill these responsibilities. I am a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming,) a certified yoga teacher, and as a Certified Master Coach, I have been coaching business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals for over 16 years. I got my M.B.A. while working at Harris Corporation in Continuous Improvement / Total Quality Management. I earned my M. Ed. in Educational Research and a Bachelors Degree with a double major in Psychology and Education. I’d been working with Russell for three years on other projects when he asked me to join the Flexure team as Flexure’s Head of Training, Events and Marketing.