Chase Poorman

A first-generation college graduate, Poorman entered higher education through Georgia’s ACCEL dual-enrollment program at Southern Polytechnic State University. He continued his education at Kennesaw State University, where he originally pursued parallel undergraduate programs in Finance and International Affairs, with an East Asia concentration. After COVID-19 disrupted that academic plan, he completed his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance in December 2021.

His academic record reflects the breadth of that original course of study. Poorman earned both President’s List and Dean’s List recognition while completing coursework across calculus, probability and statistics, applied statistics and optimization, economics, accounting, corporate finance, investments, behavioral finance, international financial management, financial technology, information systems, operations, sociology, anthropology, and political studies.

His international education included four semesters of formal Japanese-language instruction through Intermediate Japanese II, as well as coursework in Asian cultures, Southeast Asian politics, global issues, and French. He was selected through the International Student Exchange Program and accepted for an academic-year exchange at Chukyo University in Japan, but COVID-19 and Japan’s related border restrictions prevented him from attending.

Faculty recognized his interdisciplinary curiosity early. In a recommendation supporting his exchange application, a Kennesaw State lecturer noted that Poorman earned the highest score in the class on its first Asian Cultures examination, contributed to discussions at a level above his classmates, demonstrated a serious interest in Japan and Asian cultures, and volunteered to assist visiting and exchange students. A later finance professor emphasized his demonstrated ability and desire to continue learning while supporting his transition from college into financial technology and corporate finance.

During his final undergraduate course, Commercial Banking & FinTech, Poorman helped develop and pitch kCoin, a digital-currency and university-payments concept designed to consolidate fragmented campus payment systems. The proposed platform combined blockchain infrastructure and biometric authentication with a unified interface for tuition, housing, dining, parking, medical, retail, and other campus transactions. Developed as a judged seed-funding exercise, the project anticipated a theme that would later become central to his research: an invention succeeds only when its technical design, security, incentives, operating model, and institutional adoption can function as one system.

The Orbital Economy applies that systems perspective to the convergence of artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing, energy infrastructure, reusable launch, and orbital industry. Rather than assuming orbital computing is inevitable—or dismissing it as speculative fantasy—the project tests the conditions under which orbit could become a productive economic layer. Its research follows bottlenecks across power generation, thermal management, semiconductor fabrication, advanced packaging, radiation exposure, launch mass, communications, reliability, servicing, capital formation, environmental obligations, geopolitics, and governance.

Poorman approaches these subjects as a finance and systems analyst, not as an aerospace engineer. His research method emphasizes primary sources, transparent assumptions, scenario analysis, falsifiable claims, structured claim tracking, and independent specialist review when the work crosses into engineering disciplines. His objective is not to promote a predetermined vision of the future, but to give readers a practical framework for distinguishing invention from infrastructure, technological possibility from economic readiness, and enthusiasm from evidence.