Who is Stockton Rush, OceanGate CEO? Bio, wife, children, net worth

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Stockton Rush together with four other passengers have gone missing on an OceanGate tourist submersible that disappeared during an expedition to explore the Titanic shipwreck. The sub disappeared on Sunday, June 18, 2023, while diving to reach the Titanic shipwreck.

According to CNN, other passengers on board the Sub include, billionaire Hamish Harding and French explorer and Titanic expert Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, who comes from a prominent Pakistani business family, and his son, Suleman Dawood, are the final two passengers.

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Who is Stockton Rush, OceanGate CEO?

Stockton  Rush happens to be the founder and CEO of OceanGate, a privately held U.S. company operating out of Everett, Washington, that provides crewed submersibles for tourism, industry, research, and exploration.

OceanGate was founded in 2009 and has become very successful over the years of its existence.

Bio

Stockton Rush graduated from Princeton University in 1984 with BSE in Aerospace Engineering.  Right after graduation, Stockton Rush decides to go in for his favorite thing which is his passion for engineering and aerospace.  He then joined the McDonnell Douglas Corporation to further continue his dreams.

He became the youngest jet transport pilot at the age of 19 in 1981. He started his massive company OceanGate in 2009 which has become very successful over the years of its existence. 

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush has a good background, he is believed to be a Christian with strong Christian morals and values. He is a proud British but has an Irish ethnicity as his grandfather, an oil dealer was Irish.

wife and children

Wendy Rush happens to be the ever-supportive wife of Stockton  Rush, the 61-year-old founder, and CEO of OceanGate Inc.

Wendy Rush is said to be a licensed pilot and a substitute teacher in the Lancaster (Calif.) school system.

According to sources, she was formerly an account manager with Ladd Associates in San Francisco and a consultant to magazine publishers.

Wendy Rush graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Princeton University where it is believed she met her husband Stockton Rush.

The duo got married in 1986 and have been blessed with two lovely children. Unfortunately, there is no information regarding her two children.  Wendy Rush is very supportive of her husband’s work and frequently posts a lot on her social media pages.

Wendy Rush was born to Dr. Richard Weil and Polly Weil. According to sources, her father is a professor of surgery and director of transplantation at the University of Colorado Medical School whereas her mother, Polly Weil, is a partner in the Denver interior design firm of Reynolds & Weil.

There is no information regarding who her siblings are, but it is said she has siblings.

net worth

With a company like OceanGate, Stockton Rush is surely said to have a lot of wealth himself. He started the company in 2009 and it has become very successful over the years of its existence.

According to sources, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is said to have a total net worth estimated at 12 million USD as of 2023. He earned this through hard work and dedication to his company OceanGate.

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