Jim Cantrell is an American entrepreneur, mechanical engineer and road racer. He was the CEO and co-founder of Vector Launch, Inc., Vintage Exotics, StratSpace and was on the founding teams of SpaceX and Moon Express.  After working at the French Space Agency CNES (Centre Nationale D’Etudes Spatiales) and the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, he worked as an independent consultant to aerospace companies for fifteen years. He is the author of twenty technical papers.

A mechanical engineer by profession, Cantrell also occasionally participates in road racing and has participated in Thunderhill Raceway Park's 25 Hours of Thunderhill and the 24 Hours of Daytona Classic. In 2005, he founded Vintage Exotics Competition Engineering, which designs and restores race cars.  Jim is also a long time AZ Region SCCA Board Member and currently serves as the AZ SCCA Regional Executive.