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Space Investment Summit Speaker Biographies
(Speakers are listed in order of appearance in the agenda. Click on red names below to view biographies.)
Buzz Aldrin
Gregory Olsen, Ph.D.
Paul Eckert, Ph.D.
Jeff Krukin
George T. Whitesides
Paul Graziani
Robert Werb
Jacques Vallee, Ph.D.
John Vornle
George Petracek
Alan Marty
Arthur Dula
Raymond F. Duffy, Jr.
Ramin Khadem, Ph.D.
J. Armand Musey, CFA
Patrick Agnieray
John White, Ph.D.
Thomas B. Pickens, III
Thomas A. Olson
Lee S. Valentine, Ph.D.
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Stephen Fleming
Derek Webber
James Bennett
Jim Fiske
Rick Holdren
Zion Bar-el
Burton Lee, Ph.D., MBA
Lawrence DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Paul Reichert
Louis Stodieck, Ph.D.
Timothy Hammond, M.D.
Stephen Day
Larry Austin
Charles A. George
Granger B. Whitelaw
Hoyt Davidson
Joe Rothenberg
John Mankins
Klaus Heiss
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On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their Lunar Module on the moon's Sea of Tranquility and became the first two humans to walk on the moon. This unprecedented heroic endeavor was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. He was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor amongst over 50 other distinguished awards and medals from the United States and numerous other countries. Since retiring from NASA, the Air Force, and his position as Commander of the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, Dr. Aldrin has remained at the forefront of efforts to ensure a continued leading role for America in manned space exploration. To advance his lifelong commitment to venturing outward in space, he founded his rocket design company, Starcraft Boosters, Inc., and the ShareSpace Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to opening the doors to space tourism for all people.
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Dr. Gregory Olsen is an entrepreneur and scientist who, in October, 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip into space and orbit the Earth on the International Space Station (ISS) with Space Adventures, Ltd. Currently, he is President of GHO Ventures, LLC, where he manages his "angel" investments.
On October 1, 2005, Dr. Olsen flew on the Russian Soyuz TMA-7 Rocket, docked on the ISS and returned to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-6 on October 11, 2005. He performed more than 150 orbits of the Earth and logged almost 4 million miles of weightless travel during his 10 days in space.
Dr. Olsen was the Co-Founder and Chairman of Sensors Unlimited, Inc., a company developing optoelectronic devices such as sensitive near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) cameras. He was an invited scientist at the South Africa Port Elizabeth University and worked as a research scientist at the RCA company laboratory (Sarnoff Research Center). He founded EPITAXX Inc., a fiber-optic detector manufacturer. He also founded and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sensors Unlimited, Inc., a near-infrared camera manufacturer.
Dr. Olsen earned a bachelor of science in physics and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and electronics from the Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey; master of science degree in physics (magna cum laude) from Fairleigh Dickinson University; and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Virginia. He holds twelve U.S. patents and has written more than 100 technical papers. Dr. Olsen is an IEEE LEOS Fellow and the first recipient of the prestigious IEEE Aron Kressel Award.
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As International and Commercial Strategist for Boeing's Space Exploration division, Dr. Paul Eckert develops strategies to strengthen global business relationships and explore new commercial markets. He has become increasingly active in writing and speaking about the importance of international industrial cooperation to encourage innovation. Since joining the Boeing Company in 2003, Dr. Eckert has played a variety of roles, facilitating space exploration planning, infrastructure design, Earth observation, space science, government relations, and communications.
In 2001 and 2002, Dr. Eckert served as a Technology Policy Analyst in the Office of Space Commercialization, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., helping to develop policies promoting growth of the commercial space industry, both domestically and internationally. From 1999 through 2000, he was a Legislative Affairs Specialist at NASA, with responsibility for liaison with the U.S. Congress involving space and aeronautics, information technology, systems engineering, and technology transfer to industry. In 1997 and 1998, Dr. Eckert was science and technology advisor to U.S. Senator John Breaux, a prominent member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, having received a Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). From 1986 through 1997, he gained expertise in productivity enhancement, as Director of Quality Improvement for a division of Henry Ford Health System.
Dr. Eckert holds a bachelor's degree with high honors in history from Harvard University, and a doctoral degree in psychology from Michigan State University, supplemented by postdoctoral training in organizational development. He is fluent in French and active in promoting international public-private partnerships to stimulate economic growth.
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Jeff Krukin is the Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, a national organization that is leading the drive for a free enterprise based pro-human settlement space policy.
Mr. Krukin is an international speaker, writer, analyst, and award-winning leader concerned with commercial space development, space settlement, and The Human-Space Connection™.
Mr. Krukin has been a Space Frontier Foundation Board Member since 1995, and was the first Director of Advocates in 1996. He is also credited as a ProSpace Board Member and Director of the 1998 and 1999 March Storm lobbying events. He is also a past Vice President, Director and Chairman of the March Storm. In addition to the Foundation, Mr. Krukin is on the Steering Committee of the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs and is the advisor to the Director of the North Carolina Space Initiative at NC State University. He is a recipient of the ProSpace Activist of the Year Award.
His first space article was published in 1981, the year he completed his graduate internship at NASA Headquarters and became an IBM Systems Engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center. In the early-1990's he began speaking at conferences about the settlement and development of space. Combining his passions for space and writing, in the early 1990's he wrote a monthly column entitled "Think About It," which appeared for several years in the Journal for Space Development and other space newsletters. He has also been published in Space News, the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Business Journal, and on websites such as Spacedaily.com and Betterhumans.com. Mr. Krukin authored a book of essays specifically written for high school students in 2005. He is also a noted conference speaker and has been interviewed on radio and television news programs.
Mr. Krukin completed his undergraduate studies in Psychology and Sociology at The George Washington University and completed the Studies of the Future graduate program at the University of Houston/Clear Lake.
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George T. Whitesides is the Executive Director of the National Space Society (NSS), the largest space advocacy group dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization. NSS has approximately 20,000 supporters and more than 50 chapters around the world. Founded in 1974 on the principles of Werner von Braun and Dr. Gerald O'Neill, NSS seeks to promote change to advance the day when humans will live, work and play in space.
Mr. Whitesides began his career at Orbital Sciences Corporation as special assistant to the president. Since then, he has served as Vice President of Marketing for Zero Gravity Corporation, a private space-tourism company, and Director of Marketing for Blastoff Corporation, a space-experience company funded by film and technology leaders.
He is an appointed member of COMSTAC, the official advisory committee to the Department of Transportation on space transportation issues. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, and currently serves on the board of the Space Generation Foundation.
Mr. Whitesides is the co-founder of Yuri's Night, a global celebration of space that includes thousands of celebrants each year around the world. He is also the founder of Permission to Dream, a global space-education program focused on astronomy. Permission to Dream has donated telescopes and astronomy materials to disadvantaged children in 16 countries to date.
A Fulbright scholar, Mr. Whitesides received his graduate degree in remote sensing and GIS from Cambridge University, and his undergraduate degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University with honors.
An active writer and commentator on space and exploration issues, Mr. Whitesides has been interviewed on NBC, CNN, Fox News, VOA, and many other media outlets, as well as contributing comment to NPR, Space News, Space.com, and the Planetary Report. He was the co-recipient, with Loretta Hidalgo, of the 2001 Permission to Dream award.
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Paul Graziani is the president, CEO, and co-founder of AGI, a producer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) analysis software for land, sea, air, and space.
For the past 18 years Mr. Graziani has championed the use of COTS technology in the national security and space industries, Today AGI's flagship software product, STK, is used by tens of thousands of aerospace, defense, and intelligence professionals worldwide. For the past three years, AGI has been named the Best Company to Work for in America by the Great Place to Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management, and for the last two years was ranked as one of five top aerospace/military work environments in North America by Aviation Week and Space Technology.
Mr. Graziani has also been nominated for and received a number of entrepreneurial excellence awards at both local and national levels. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He sits on the boards of directors of The Space Foundation, Megadata, the Galaxy Explorers, and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation; serves on the advisory boards for the Joint Military Intelligence College Foundation and Penn State Great Valley; and is a member of the Enduring Value Advisory Council for Zanett Inc.
He earned a B.S. in biology from LaSalle College.
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Robert Werb is one of the three founders of the Space Frontier Foundation. Bob was an active partner in Rivercrest Realty Investors from 1976 until 2001. Rivercrest Realty Investors is a privately held, real estate firm that owns and manages a portfolio of garden apartments, shopping centers and office buildings with properties in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina and Florida. Since 2001 he has assumed a more passive role in Rivercrest Realty Investors and has been spending more time working on a variety of projects including the Space Frontier Foundation.
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Dr. Jacques Vallee is a Partner with SBV Venture Partners in Palo Alto, California.
Dr. Vallee was born in France and moved to the United States to become a research associate at the University of Texas Astronomy Department where he developed the first computer-based map of Mars under a NASA project as an associate of Gérard de Vaucouleurs.
As a principal investigator for DARPA and for the National Science Foundation, Dr. Vallee directed the project to build the first "groupware" system on Arpanet, the predecessor network to the Internet. A co-founder of the EuroAmerica Fund family in 1987, he spearheaded investments in nanotechnology companies (Nanogram and Nanogram Devices), life sciences (Sangstat Medical, Synaptic Pharmaceuticals), semiconductors (Mobilian, IPAC), software (Mercury Interactive), network infrastructure (Harmonic Lightwaves, P-Com, Com21, Class Data Systems), and optics (Triformix, NeoPhotonics). In 2003, Dr. Vallee was elected as a Trustee of the Institute for the Future. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of Bigelow Aerospace.
Dr. Vallee earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at the Sorbonne and a Master of Science in astrophysics at Lille University. He also earned his Ph.D. in computer science and artificial intelligence from Northwestern University. He is the author of four books about high technology, namely Computer Message Systems, published by McGraw-Hill; The Network Revolution, published by Penguin; Electronic Meetings, published by Addison-Wesley; and most recently The Heart of the Internet (Hampton Roads, 2004).
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John Vornle is President of Long Term Capital Company, and is its Managing Director.
Mr. Vornle specializes in managing the closely held assets of Family Offices and the development of new businesses. He provides equity funds and takes companies public. He currently sits as a board member or senior financial advisor to a number of companies and Family Offices, including a private equity fund. He has held board positions with private and public companies, including a publicly regulated electric utility, a healthcare service company, a sugar trading/investment company, several real estate operations, a credit enhancement insurance company, a European boarding school, and several charitable not-for-profit organizations.
Mr. Vornle was formerly a Vice President for Continental Insurance and its subsidiaries where he organized deal production, the due diligence/credit evaluation for investments in numerous asset classes, and the development of new businesses. He was previously a commercial banker at European American Bank.
Mr. Vornle speaks French and German. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and an MBA from New York University's Graduate School of Business. He also completed a one-year bank credit and management training program in 1982.
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George Petracek is the Managing Director of the Atrium Capital Corporation. Atrium Capital Corporation is recognized as a leader in managing outsourced venture programs for major corporations.
Mr. Petracek joined Atrium Capital Corporation in 2000. Previously, he was a Corporate Business Development Manager at Hewlett-Packard, where he focused on M&A and venture investments across various HP businesses. Prior to joining HP, he was a Vice President of Corporate Finance at Union Bank of Switzerland, working with telecommunications, industrial, utilities and financial institutions clients. Mr. Petracek was an Associate with Morgan Stanley in its M&A execution group. He began his professional career as a computer programmer for 3M.
Mr. Petracek earned his MBA from Stanford University and his MS degree in Cybernetics from CVUT Institute of Technology.
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Alan Marty is an investment consultant to NASA and works on the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program.
Mr. Marty brings both a business and technology perspective to his consulting practice. He was Executive-in-Residence at JPMorgan Partners where he was responsible for driving the expansion of the firm's investments in nanotechnology. While at Hewlett-Packard, he was General Manager of the integrated circuit business with responsibility for all aspects of the multi-national enterprise. At Agilent Technologies, Mr. Marty was General Manager of the microdisplay business, an early entrant into commercialized nanotechnology. Early in his career, he was an Associate Professor in Materials Science at Silliman University.
Mr. Marty earned a bachelor's degree in Materials Science from Iowa State University and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Arthur "Art" Dula is the Chief Executive Officer of Excalibur Almaz Limited and has had a private Aerospace and Intellectual Property Law practice since 1980. He is a registered broker with the U.S. State Department, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Defense Trade Controls. His practice is rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubble.
Mr. Dula's practice is limited to aerospace and intellectual property law, technology licensing, and business start-up and development. His clients include U.S. and Russian aerospace firms.
Mr. Dula has founded numerous companies, including Eagle Aerospace Inc., Space Services Inc., Spacehab Inc., Space Commerce Corporation, Tethers Unlimited Inc., and Starcraft Boosters Inc. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston. His academic credits also include Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Akron, a legal advisor to the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, and a consultant to NASA on the Space Shuttle payload contract.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Mathematics from Eastern New Mexico and a Juris Doctor in Civil Law from Tulane University. He is a member of the American Bar Association, International Institute of Space Law, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a past recipient of the Space Pioneer Award from the U.S. National Space Society and the Gagarin Medal awarded by the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics.
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Raymond F. Duffy is a Senior Vice President of Willis Inspace.
Mr. Duffy joined Willis Global Aerospace in 1995 concentrating his time on product liability accounts. He joined Willis Inspace in 1996 using his extensive background to focus on space products liability, launch liability and satellite insurance issues including in-orbit liability. Ray works as a client advocate and/or account executive handling accounts such as Loral, Orbital, GeoEye and ATK.
Ray is a member of a number of industry working groups for launch and related issues. He assisted MDC/Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences in their negotiations for the Commercial Space Operations Support Agreement (CSOSA) with the U.S. Air Force. Ray has also assisted a number of working groups in obtaining the various extensions of the CSLA Indemnification Provisions. He is an active participant on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) Risk Management Working Group.
Mr. Duffy earned his Juris Doctor from New England School of Law and graduated Cum Laude with an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Boston College. He has also earned an Associate in Risk Management degree from the Insurance Institute of America.
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Dr. Ramin Khadem is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at The International Space University, Strasbourg, France. He is a former Inmarsat Chief Financial Officer and executive Board member of the ISU.
Dr. Khadem provides consultancy in the space and satellite field in the commercial and financial area and acts as independent non-executive director on the boards of few enterprises. As CFO of Inmarsat, he was part of the team that transformed Inmarsat from an international organisation to a public company, and subsequently was involved in its sale to private equity firms Apax Partners and Permira.
He earned a Bachelors of Science from the University of Illinois and Masters and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University in Canada. He also received specialized training in Econometric Analyses of the Financial and Monetary System at MIT, as well as training at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Executive Management Forum at Harvard Business School.
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J. Armand Musey is President and a Senior Partner of Near Earth LLC and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Mr. Musey was head of the Satellite Communications and Tower equity research effort at Salomon Smith Barney. He held similar positions at other Investment Banks including Managing Director at Bank of America Securities and Senior Communications Analyst at C.E. Unterberg Towbin. As a research analyst, Mr. Musey oversaw Salomon Smith Barney's analytical support for institutional investors considering investments in the satellite telecommunications and tower industries. Due to the broad range of applications satellites are used for, this involved evaluating the strategies, managements and financial positions of firms spanning a wide range of the media, telecom and aerospace sectors. Some of the companies Mr. Musey covered included American Tower, Crown Castle, EchoStar, Garmin, Gilat Satellite Networks, Hughes, Loral, Orbital Sciences, PanAmSat, Pegasus Communications, Sirius Satellite Radio, SES Global, Trimble Navigation, ViaSat and XM Satellite Radio. Mr. Musey also provided analytical support and industry expertise to the banking side of the business for a wide variety of public and private satellite and aerospace transactions between 1997 and 2002, including those for Boeing, Globecomm Systems and Lockheed Martin. Prior to becoming a research analyst, Mr. Musey spent two years as an investment banker.
Mr. Musey earned his undergraduate degree with honors in Sociology from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Mr. Musey received several awards and high rankings for his research coverage, including highly coveted rankings from the Institutional Investor Survey for three years (2000–2002). He was also ranked #1 analyst covering satellite communications industry by Greenwich Associates in 2000, and was rated as Top Broadcasting Stock Picker in the Wall Street Journal's "All Star" Analyst Survey of 2000. He has appeared numerous times on national television as an expert on the telecommunications industry, including Bloomberg, Fox and CNN.
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Patrick Agnieray is VP of Marketing with Thales Alenia Space, in charge of the assessment of the market for satellite applications, as well as of the definition of the satellite solutions to answer that market.
Prior to that, Mr. Agnieray was in charge of marketing for Alcatel Earth Stations, of business development for satellite telecommunications and navigation systems with Thomson-CSF (now Thales), system engineer on the Hermes space-plane program, on satellite positioning systems and on the DORIS/TOPEX-POSEIDON program in CNES, and system engineer for the Manned Space Systems Division in ESA.
He represents Thales Alenia Space in DVB and GVF. He is also a member of the IAF Space Communications and Navigation Committee and has advised on several related conferences.
He graduated in Physical Engineering and specialized in Telecommunications and Aerospace Systems. He also holds an MBA from Toulouse University.
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Dr. John White is the Founding Director of E-Synergy Ltd, Chairman of OLED-T Ltd and NCIMB Ltd, and Director of Seabait Ltd, Microsharp Ltd and Aquapharm Ltd.
After an early career at DERA Malvern and as Technical Manager at Marconi, he was appointed Managing Director of CRL in 1993. He developed the company from a corporate R&D house to a commercial operation with extensive overseas business. He led an MBO from Thorn EMI, Scipher plc, at a valuation of £340m, which was successfully floated on the London Stock Market in 2000.
Dr. White is credited as the founder of a number of companies in diverse fields ranging from liquid crystal displays, spread spectrum wireless software and VOIP to Bioinformatics. His expertise includes electronic devices, commercialization of intellectual property and the development of high technology companies.
Dr. White holds a degree and Ph.D. in electronics from Southampton University and an MBA from Henley Management College. He is an authorized person under FSA (since 2004) and Coordinator of the Emerald Fund.
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Son of oil legend T. Boone Pickens, Tom Pickens has been an active investor in the future since he was eleven years old. Since that time, Mr. Pickens has assumed many and varied leadership roles in corporate America with consistent and measurable success. As Managing Partner and Founder of Tactic Advisors, Inc., Mr. Pickens has specialized in corporate turnarounds on behalf of creditors and investors that have aggregated to over $20 billion in value. With a continued emphasis on value creation, Mr. Pickens is renowned for successful involvement with many companies during the startup, growth, and turnaround phases of the corporate lifecycle. As President of T.B. Pickens & Co., he has acted as both advisor and principal of corporate acquisitions now totaling over $10 billion.
His eye for 'what's possible' recently brought him to the promising yet fledgling field of space commerce and its apparent untapped market potential. A member of SPACEHAB, Inc.'s Board of Directors since 2003, Mr. Pickens was recently named President and CEO for the 22-year commercial aerospace pioneer and is leading the charge for taking SPACEHAB into the next phase of the nation's space initiatives. Mr. Pickens also recently launched Texas Nanotech Ventures and an associated $100 million Fund in an effort to converge investment capital into promising Texas nanotechnology companies.
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Thomas A. Olson is the Managing Partner at Exodus Consulting Group LLC.
In the last 23 years, Mr. Olson has added value both in computer systems engineering and project management, as well as operations and investment analysis in financial services. As co-founder of Colonyfund.com, he helps engage the "alt.space" community in a realistic conversation concerning creative finance of, and business planning for, new space ventures. In his career, he has played a key role in projects for major firms in aerospace, civil engineering, communications, publishing and financial services. In 1987, he helped start up Sydney Capital, a cash and fund management firm. For the next three years he helped grow the firm's base of assets under management from $50 million to $250 million.
A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Olson's latest venture is Exodus Consulting Group, where he and his partners offer both independent due diligence services for tech sector VC investors and assist selected tech startups with structuring VC funding proposals.
Mr. Olson earned his undergraduate degrees in Biology at Portland State University and in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a founding member of the Mars Society and was elected an Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation in 2003. Mr. Olson lectures frequently at national space advocacy conferences and is a frequent guest on talk-radio programs such as The Space Show. His topics center on the fiscal, regulatory and political challenges of private space commercialization, public perceptions of space and humanity's future in the high frontier.
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Dr. Lee S. Valentine is the Executive Vice President of the Space Studies Institute in Princeton, New Jersey and an Angel Investor.
He is an investor in SEEGRID Corporation, a Pittsburgh firm that introduced the world's first commercial autonomous mobile robots in late 2006. He is also an investor in Constellation Services International, in XCOR Aerospace, and in Orbital Outfitters. Dr. Valentine helped finance the design of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft and the construction of Mass Driver III.
Dr. Valentine has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Space Studies Institute in Princeton since 1980. He is a director of ProSpace America, the Citizens' Space Lobby. He is also a director of Orbital Outfitters and a member of AIAA.
Dr. Valentine earned a B.S. in science from Penn State and an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He is the editor of Settling Circumsolar Space, Vol. 13 of Princeton/SSI Conference on Space Manufacturing and Space Settlement, 2001, and co-author of "Mass Drivers for Planetary Defense", 2004.
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Stephen Fleming is Chief Commercialization officer of the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as an angel investor and a general partner of the Seraph Group.
Mr. Fleming has over 10 years of private equity experience at the General Partner level. Prior to his venture capital career, he spent 15 years in operations roles at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Nortel Networks, and LICOM (a venture-funded startup). An Atlanta native and summa cum laude graduate of Georgia Tech, Stephen returned to his alma mater in mid-2005 as Chief Commercialization Officer. His appointment led a reorganization designed to streamline the handling of intellectual property, accelerate the licensing of technology, and make the Institute's resources more readily accessible to business and industry.
Among other affiliations, Mr. Fleming is a board member of XCOR Aerospace and an investor in Constellation Services and Icon Aircraft. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Tech High School, a charter high school emphasizing science, math, and technology in urban Atlanta.
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Derek Webber is Director of Spaceport Associates, a space tourism consultancy based in Washington DC, and is an Affiliate of SpaceWorks Engineering Inc.
Mr. Webber directed three landmark commercial space forecasting studies - the Futron/Zogby Survey of demand for space tourism amongst millionaires, the ASCENT Study of all space markets for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the Adventurers' Survey of opinions of adventure vacationers completed in conjunction with Incredible Adventures. His clients have included Constellation Services International, Transformational Space Corp, and Rocketplane Kistler. Mr. Webber is an active member of the Reusable Launch Vehicles Working Group and the Launch Operations Support Group of the Federal Aviation Administration's COMSTAC Committee, and he provided testimony on the viability of the space tourism industry to the President's Commission on the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. His work includes membership of spacecraft Design Review Boards, planning of space tourism and spaceport business operations, business plan closure and risk assessment, and international negotiation skills.
Mr. Webber's career began as a launch vehicle and satellite engineer in Europe, in what is now EADS/Astrium Space Systems, and then he served successively as Head of Procurement at Inmarsat, (contracting for over a billion dollars worth of satellites and launch vehicles), and as Managing Director of Tachyon Europe (providing broadband access via satellite to countries from Western Europe across the Balkans).
Mr. Webber holds a B.Sc. Honors degree in Physics and Mathematics from Newcastle University (UK), and postgraduate qualifications in Space Science (from University College London, UK), Management (from Westminster University, UK) and Accounting and Finance (from the Association of Certified Accountants, UK). He is a Senior Member of the AIAA, a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, and a member of the adjunct faculty of the International Space University. Mr. Webber has now been an advocate of public space travel, giving radio and TV interviews, presenting papers and chairing panels, for a decade.
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James Bennett is President of Wyoming Space and Information Systems (WYSIS).
Mr. Bennett is the former President and Chairman of the Board of Internet Transactions Transnational, Inc., an Internet start-up, and a member of the Board of Directors of XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California.
Mr. Bennett is a businessman with a background in technology companies and consulting, and a writer on technology and international affairs. During the 1980s he was involved in space-launch ventures, including founder of American Rocket Company (AMROC), whose technology found its way into SpaceShipOne.
He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute.
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Jim Fiske is VP of Advanced Systems at LaunchPoint Technologies, a Venture Engineering firm specializing in electro-mechanics, system optimization and business development.
Mr. Fiske applies leading edge technologies to unsolved problems of significance, and develops businesses to bring the resulting solutions to market. Current projects include the "Power Ring" high power electricity storage technology, several maglev transportation applications, the "Rail Motor" freight railroad electrification system, and a revolutionary electromagnetic space launch system. Previously he founded Magtube Inc., specialists in the development of magnetic levitation systems, where he raised venture funding and oversaw the development of a new class of maglev freight transportation system.
Mr. Fiske became a space advocate when he met Gerard O'neill in the 1970's and learned the potential of space colonization. He designed electronic systems for spacecraft applications at Hughes Aircraft Company for several years thereafter — until he caught "entrepreneur's disease". He's been involved with start-up companies and high-tech ventures ever since, including Vitesse Electronics where he was a computer architect, and Quad Design Technology, a provider of leading-edge computer-assisted engineering software.
He received a degree in E.E.&C.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Rick Holdren is a Healthcare Angel Investor and Founder of Appraisal & Mentor Group LLC, a top-3 M & A and healthcare valuation firm with over 2500+ completed assignments including over 200 court valuations. His current investment is a 'virtual incubator' with 'space-act' agreement with NASA to commercialize its phase III SBIR companies with matching venture investment.
Mr. Holdren is Co-Founder of Equivision, publicly traded on NASDAQ and sold for over $70 million cash, and EquiMed, a publicly traded cancer management company with a market cap over $200 million. Holdren has additionally co-founded/Invested in Physician Trust (venture backed by over 5 million in investment), DaVincian Technologies (picked by Bob Ryan's High-Tech Start-up Boot Camp), Austin Med Tech, a publicly traded surgical 'pack' company, DermAmerica, a national cosmetic dermatology firm and MD Pain Clinics. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded or invested in over 26 healthcare start-ups and was named as 2002 Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation Mentor of the year.
Mr. Holdren previously was a partner in the nation's largest physician search firm, a director of physician relations at a major hospital management firm and co-founder of Texas's largest practice management firm.
Rick Holdren and his partner have a combined 22+ years in healthcare appraisal with over 2700 fee based assignments and participation in angel investing in over 26 start-ups.
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Zion Bar-el is President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Founder of Ideation International Inc.
Mr. Bar-El performs multiple functions including those involving Sales and Marketing Administration. Mr. Bar-El manages pre-sales activities and negotiates exclusive agreements with potential clients, both nationally and internationally. He has been involved in overseeing all activities of the company since January of 1996.
Mr. Bar-El has over 29 years of management experience in high-tech marketing/sales and product development. Mr. Bar-El's experience encompasses management roles in prime Computers, General Automation, and Forward Technology. He was also a principal in the start-up companies Mini Control and Micro Project where he was responsible for building sales networks around the world, establishing reliable customer bases, and successfully generating large sales volumes and profits.
Mr. Bar-El holds a BSEE from Heald's Engineering College in San Francisco.
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Dr. Burton H. Lee, Managing Partner of Innovarium Ventures, provides senior advisory services to startup company CEOs, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks and major corporations in the areas of venture financing, strategy, competitive positioning, technical due diligence, and emerging technology trends in the computing, space, aviation, nanotech, alternative energy, cleantech and related innovation sectors.
Dr. Lee's professional experience spans 15 years in strategy consulting, high tech industry, government and venture-backed startups working in corporate development and strategy, business development, technology commercialization, and advanced computing and space systems research. His management and technical experience includes senior positions with leading organizations such as GE Global Research, Hewlett Packard, DaimlerChrysler AG and NASA in the United States, Europe and Japan. Burton's technical expertise spans commercial space systems, alternative energy/hydrogen technologies, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence and robotics. His space background includes an early tenure as Manager of the Stanford Small Satellite Program, working at NASA Kennedy Space Center as a Shuttle Thermal Protection Systems research engineer, and serving as co-founder and COO of Orbital Recovery Systems, a commercial reentry capsule services provider.
In 1990, Dr. Lee founded the Southwest Regional Spaceport (renamed Spaceport America) when he proposed the original concept to New Mexico State University, authored the initial strategic and business plans, and raised $1.4 million in "seed" funding from Congress for spaceport feasibility, environmental and safety studies in collaboration with Sen. Pete Domenici. In 1992, Burton co-founded the Aerospace States Association, where he served as New Mexico's first delegate nominated by the Lieutenant Governor. More recently, Lee was appointed a 2006 Senior Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., where he worked on national IT sector innovation policy for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.
Today, Dr. Lee is Senior Strategic and Technical Advisor to the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (from mid-April 2007), and concurrently serves as Technical and Legislative Advisor to the Personal Spaceflight Federation, an industry association which includes RLV developers and operators, spaceports and space destinations seeking to make commercial human space travel a reality. Burton also sits on the MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program Advisory Board, and is a member of the FAA AST Comstac Working Group on Launch Operations and Support.
Dr. Lee holds a PhD in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering from Stanford (2002, dissertation in artificial intelligence), an MBA from Cornell (2004, finance and entrepreneurship) and an AB in Physics from Brown University. He also attended the International Space University and is a graduate of the inaugural class held at MIT in 1988.
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Dr. Lawrence DeLucas is the Founder and Director of the Center for Biophysical Science and Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also the Director and a Senior Scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center X-ray Crystallography Facility, and a Professor in the Schools of Optometry, Biochemistry and Physiology & Biophysics.
Dr. DeLucas was a flight Payload Specialist aboard the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia STS-50 mission participating in over 31 different biophysical and fluid dynamic experiments during his two week mission on the shuttle. He was also the NASA Chief Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. from 1994-1995.
Dr. DeLucas has earned five degrees from UAB, including a Doctor of Optometry and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry. He also holds Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from four other Universities. He has published over 130 peer reviewed scientific articles, co-authored two books on protein crystal growth and holds 15 patents for inventions involving protein crystal growth and compounds developed with structure based drug discovery.
Dr. DeLucas is a recipient of the UAB Distinguished Faculty Award and the State of Alabama Howard Heflin Statesmanship Award for Technology Innovation. He was recognized in "The Sunday Times" in London as one of the scientists who could shape the 21st Century in an article titled "The Brains Behind the 21st Century." He was also recognized as one of the pioneers in proteomic research and is a recipient of a Presidential Award from the President of Brazil recognizing his research in the International Chagas Disease Project.
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Paul Reichert is a Research Fellow in the Department of Structural Chemistry at Schering Plough Research Institute (SPRI) in Kenilworth, New Jersey. Currently, he manages a high throughput macromolecular discovery and optimization screening faculty for preclinical drug discovery. He designed a patented robotic crystallization system and is actively involved in the development of crystallization technology using nanotechnology. He has over 30 publications and is a co-inventor on several patents involving pharmaceutical applications for protein crystals.
He has been a principal investigator in several microgravity experiments on Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station with NASA and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. These experiments were designed to explore microgravity applications for structure determination, drug delivery and the purification of protein therapeutics. He was a member of the Science Advisory Group for NASA's Iterative Biological Crystallization Group at Marshall Space flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Mr. Reichert was a pioneer in the in the development of biotechnology derived protein therapeutics. Most noteworthy, in the development of the manufacturing process for Schering Plough's alpha interferon product; Intron A as well as the in the development of a second generation product PEG; Intron A.
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Dr. Louis Stodieck is the Director of BioServe Space Technologies and an Associate Research Professor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dr. Stodieck earned his doctorate degree in from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1985 while conducting research in biomedical engineering. He trained for two years as a postdoctoral Medical Research Council Fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of British Columbia. He returned to Colorado in 1987 to take a position as Associate Director for Technical Affairs in the newly formed BioServe Space Technologies, a NASA-sponsored Commercial Space Center with a mission to engage the private sector in conducting space life sciences research and development. Dr. Stodieck became director of BioServe in 1999 where he currently leads an organization of 25-35 faculty, staff and students. During his tenure at BioServe, Dr. Stodieck has overseen extensive ground research and over 30 flight research payloads flown on space shuttle, Mir space station and International Space Station missions. BioServe is widely recognized for their successful partnerships with large and small biotechnology, pharmaceutical, biomedical and agricultural companies and for their highly successful, cost effective and innovative commercial flight research program. Based in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, BioServe is also well regarded for providing high quality and unique university education for the next generation of space explorers and entrepreneurs.
Dr. Stodieck's current research focuses on the development of countermeasures to the deleterious effects of space flight on human health especially in regard to space flight-induced bone and muscle loss. He has authored or co-authored over 60 journal and conference papers in the biomedical engineering field.
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Dr. Timothy Hammond, B. Med Sci., M.B.,B.S. is a Professor of Internal Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine and Associate Chief of Staff Research at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. He is the Founder and co-Director of the Tulane/VA Environmental Astrobiology Center. He is an internal medicine and nephrology physician in active academic practice. He has published over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles, and is an inventor on 5 patents involving tissue differentiation during suspension culture in bioreactors.
He has given congressional testimony on the future of biotechnology. In March 1999 Fortune Magazine named him one of 5 scientists "Discovering tomorrow today". He has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on more than 12 academic and commercial payloads which have flown to the Mir and International Space Stations, as well as sortie missions on the space shuttle. He is the recipient of a 1998 Space Act Award, from the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board, and a 2001 NASA, Group Achievement Award for formation of the Astrobiology Program. He reviews in the area of biotechnology for many agencies including NIH, NSF, DARPA, DOD, NASA, VA, and the Dutch Space Agency SRON/ESA. He is on the Board of Advisors for Bioserve Space Technologies, and the National Free-Flow Electrophoresis Resource. He serves on numerous NASA Scientific Working Groups and Investigator Working Groups.
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Stephen Day is CEO of International Ventures Associates, LTD (iVA), a private business strategy firm located in the Greater Washington DC area, advising large, medium and small telecom and IT companies in major markets worldwide (market entry/exit strategies, competitive position analysis, alliance and investment support, cost control and identifying new revenue streams).
Mr. Day has arranged equity infusions from large international corporations into small entrepreneurial companies. He is on the board of a few software service companies, including a leading supplier of Applicant Tracking Systems for HR divisions in firms and enterprises.
Mr. Day brings over thirty years experience in sales, marketing, strategy, and general management in the telecommunications, chemical and electronics industry in the US, European and Japanese markets (with IVA LTD, COMSAT, DuPont and Courtaulds). Customers have included major Telcos, telecom equipment and software companies in the U.S., Western Europe and Asia/Pacific, e.g. NTT, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Siemens, Verizon, Cap Gemini, Matsushita, Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Marubeni, TI, Sun Microsystems, and smaller venture firms seeking corporate equity investment. He has implemented multiple transactions pruning and focusing corporate portfolios and sold seven companies at COMSAT. Mr. Day currently serves as chairman of the private bilateral organization JUSTSAP (Japan-U.S. Science, Technology and Space Application Programs).
Before founding IVA in 1991, Mr. Day spent nine years at COMSAT in a variety of senior management positions, including VP Ventures where he directed the commercialization of COMSAT's technology through licensing, joint ventures, new business spin-offs, and technology relationships. From 1969 to 1982 Mr. Day worked at E.I. DuPont in a variety of positions and locations ranging from European Sales and Product Director of an electronics business, to Corporate Planning/strategy for DuPont's Executive Committee in Wilmington, and a variety of sales and marketing positions. Mr. Day performed some of the original market research for Kevlar, where he worked closely with DuPont's research and development personnel.
He holds a masters degree from Georgia Tech and a bachelors degree from Leeds University (UK). He is a board member of a high growth software company (www.icims.com); has been a member of two NASA external advisory boards; is chairman of JUSTSAP, the Japan-U.S. Science, Technology and Space Applications Programs organization; and is an adjunct professor for the MBA program at the Kogod business school at American University. Mr. Day received a patent for a new spinning technology he developed at the Company's Textile Development Unit.
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Larry Austin is a merchant banker and former Wall Street lawyer.
Mr. Austin helped found/restructure companies in hi-tech corridors around MIT, NYC and Asia. He developed new financial products, transnational tax transfers, credit enhancement and non-traditional sale-leaseback techniques. As principal or advisor to select venture capital companies and allied organizations, he has also worked on economic development and technology infrastructure projects in Samoa, South Korea, China, and West Berlin. He has been principal/CEO in teams that acquired 200 businesses –involving $10 billion in financings. He was the first mover in several Asian markets including the team completing the first-ever trade with Chinese-GSE asset management companies, narrowly beating out the three largest investment banks in the world.
Mr. Austin is a graduate of Harvard Law School, 1980.
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Charles A. George is the President of MSI Limited, an Investment Banking Services firm that specializes in consulting emerging companies, turning around management, and advising on raising expansion capital.
MSI has assisted in launching, launching, turning around, and fundraising for more than a dozen companies since its creation in 2000 in a variety of industries, including high tech, aviation, biotechnology, and Homeland Security. The Company has advised numerous companies with general business and management consulting for successful outcomes and sustained growth and successful liquidity events, including funding, acquisitions, mergers, and planned business succession events for successful retiring founders and entrepreneurs.
Before founding MSI Limited, Mr. George served as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales and then President of George Disposables, Inc., a disposable personal care products company, in South Carolina. His responsibilities included market share and profitability analysis, the company's export sector, finance, and overseeing all marketing, advertising, promotion, and pricing activities of the company.
Mr. George has more than twenty years of experience in product development, international finance, manufacturing, and global import/export. He has been involved in various businesses and marketing campaigns in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe.
He is fluent in English and German and possesses conversational skills in Spanish. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Marketing and Accounting from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. Charles is a PADI dive Instructor and is currently an Army CW2 (Chief Warrant Officer) officer working with the reserve component of the Georgia Department of Defense (National Guard) focusing on homeland security matters.
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Granger B. Whitelaw is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of BlueCar Partners LLC and President and CEO of Rocket Racing League, overseeing the league's management, operations, partnerships and corporate affairs.
Mr. Whitelaw built a career in finance and marketing which has brought him ownership and management positions in businesses ranging from an investment banking firm, a series of profitable eCommerce ventures, an offshore finance corporation, and a developer of next generation eBusiness software to partnerships in winning Indy 500 racing teams and an independent film studio.
Mr. Whitelaw was EVP and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer for CoreCommerce, a global provider of B2B eCommerce software, where he was responsible for all sales, marketing, corporate strategic planning and business development. His business career includes positions with EOCnet.com, a Bermuda based electronic processing company which enables international companies to electronically incorporate their own virtual businesses, and the investment-banking firm of Grady & Hatch where he served as Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions. He launched his first on-line venture, www.fashionplanet.com, one of the leading fashion websites on the Internet, and he then rapidly developed and profitably spun off Fashion Almanac, a magazine with over 100,000 New York City subscribers. Shortly after, he founded Whitelaw Ventures and advised and raised funds for Phoenix Information Systems, a Sabre-like airline reservation system for the Peoples' Republic of China. He formed the Prospect Fast Ferry Corporation between New Jersey and Manhattan and was a founding investor in a fledgling investment bank, The New England Group, among other ventures.
For the last decade, Whitelaw has been involved with Indy car racing, most recently as the partner of two winning Indy 500 teams – Buddy Lazier in 1996 and Eddie Cheever in 1998. He formed Whitelaw Racing, Inc., with the objective of further partnership investments in high performance racing. Also an interest in film led to fundraising for Steven Segal's and Jim Belushi's independent film companies and ultimately to a CEO position of the motion picture division of Kalorama Studios, the largest sound stage on the East Coast and the production site for The Pelican Brief.
He is currently Board Chairman of ProSport Marketing, NYC and an advisor to Connecticut-based MGT Capital Alliance and various other firms.
Mr. Whitelaw studied International Trade & Marketing at the University of Minnesota.
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Hoyt Davidson is the founder, CEO, Partner, and Managing Member of Near Earth LLC.
Previously, he was a Managing Director in the Telecomm Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Davidson's investment banking career began in 1987 as an associate and one of only approximately 100 bankers at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He was part of the phenomenal growth and success of DLJ to over 1,000 bankers by the time of its acquisition by CSFB in 2000. At DLJ, Mr. Davidson was a co-founder of the firm's Space Finance Group, Wall Street's first dedicated industry coverage group for the satellite industry. He was one of two Managing Directors of the Space Finance Group. The group raised over $25 billion for satellite related entities and held a number one market share for several years. Prior to investment banking, he was a Senior Research Engineer in the Space Systems Division of Lockheed Missiles and Space Company.
Mr. Davidson is a past winner of the DLJ "Big Dog" Award for the largest M&A deal of the year and has been awarded the prestigious Henry B. duPont III Scholarship for academic excellence by MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a past member of the Aeronautical Space & Engineering Board of The National Academies.
Mr Davidson earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his undergraduate degree in Physics from MIT.
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Joe Rothenberg is President and a member of the Board of Directors of Universal Space Network a provider of commercial space communications networks services. In addition, he is an Independent Consultant providing management consulting services to a number of aerospace firms.
Mr. Rothenberg retired from NASA in December of 2001. He was Associate Administrator of NASA for Space Flight in charge of NASA's Human Exploration and Development of Space, and prior he was the Director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Prior to joining Goddard, he served as Executive Vice President of Computer Technology Associates, Inc., Space Systems Division, McLean, Virginia. He also served as Associate Director of Flight Projects for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) at Goddard. In this position, he was responsible for directing all aspects of the HST Project. Rothenberg began his career with Grumman Aerospace in 1964 where he managed the development and operations of the aerospace ground equipment for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory series of Goddard spacecraft. At Goddard, Mr. Rothenberg also held the positions of Operations Manager for the HST; Chief of the Mission Operations Division under the Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate; Deputy Director of Mission Operations and Data Systems; and Associate Director for Flight Projects for the HST.
Mr. Rothenberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Science and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from C. W. Post College of the Long Island University. In addition, in 1997 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an Honorary Doctorate of Science form C.W. Post. He is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals and the Senior Executive Service Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Awards. In 1997, he received the Presidential Rank Distinguished Executive Award. Rothenberg has also received the National Aviation Association Collier Trophy, the AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award, the National Space Club's Nelson P. Jackson Award, and was inducted into the Smithsonian's Aviation Week and Space Technology Hall of Fame.
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John Mankins is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Managed Energy Technologies LLC, an advanced energy technology and applications R&D firm; and the President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions, a management consulting, research and development start-up focusing on solving tough innovation challenges for government, industry and not-for-profit clients.
Mr. Mankins is an internationally recognized leader in space systems and technology innovation, and as a highly effective manager of large-scale technology R&D programs. His 25-year career at NASA ranged from flight projects and space mission operations, to systems-level innovation and advanced technology research & development management. He is also well known as an innovator in R&D management, and was one of the creators of the widely used "technology readiness level" (TRL) scale for technology assessment. He has authored or co-authored more than 70 published papers, reports and other technical documents, has testified before Congress on several occasions, and has been consulted on R&D management and space issues with organizations in the U.S. and internationally.
Before leaving NASA, Mr. Mankins was the manager of Exploration Systems Research and Technology within the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate with responsibility for an $800M annual budget, involving more than 100 individual projects and over 3,000 personnel. For 10 years, he was the manager of Advanced Concepts Studies at NASA, and was the lead for critical studies of space solar power, highly reusable space transportation, affordable human exploration approaches, and other topics. He was the creator or co-creator of numerous novel concepts, including the "MagLifter' electromagnetic launch assist system, the Internet-based NASA "Virtual Research Center" the "Solar Clipper" interplanetary transport vehicle, the "SunTower" space solar power system, the "Hybrid Propellant Module" for in-space refueling, the "HabBot" mobile planetary outpost architecture, the Advanced Technology Life cycle Analysis System (ATLAS), and others. In recognition of his accomplishments, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal (of which he was the first recipient).
He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvey Mudd College, a graduate degree in Physics from UCLA, and an MBA in Public Policy Analysis from The Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University. Mr. Mankins is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Sigma Xi Research Society.
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Dr. Klaus P. Heiss was assistant to Prof. Oskar Morgenstern at Princeton University and Mathematica (1964 – 1973). His work involved development and applications of advanced concepts in the Theory of Games and Mathematical Economics to such diverse issues as the Plowshare Program (peaceful uses of nuclear explosives), Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, advanced transportation modes and the value of remote sensing information gathered from Space.
The work of Dr. Heiss led to innovations in US technology programs, including conceptual work on new Space Transportation Systems (the Space Shuttle), assessing the scope and value of worldwide remote sensing systems (e.g. Snowmass 1974, Agristar), advanced Space communications concepts (Geoplatforms, VSATs, airborne systems) and Space energy concepts and program assessments. (NASA, US Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Naval Research, Departments of Interior, Department of Agriculture, Aerospace Industry Association, Aerospace and Communications companies). Some of these concepts and programs have been implemented.
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