Issue 13: Speakers
Edward D. Horowitz is President and CEO of SES AMERICOM,
and a member of the Executive Committee
of the parent company, SES. Prior to SES, Mr. Horowitz founded EdsLink LLC, a venture fund providing strategic financial,
operations, and technology consulting services to financial services and cable industries. Before establishing EdsLink LLC,
Mr. Horowitz was Executive Vice President for Advanced Development of Citigroup and Founder, Chairman and CEO of e-Citi.
In addition he served as a member of the Management and Investment Committees of Citigroup. Formerly, Mr. Horowitz was
Senior Vice President, Viacom Inc., and a member of the Viacom Executive Committee and, prior to Viacom, Mr. Horowitz held
senior management positions at Home Box Office (HBO), a subsidiary of Time Warner and was a founder of Suburban Cable. Mr.
Horowitz holds a B.S. in Physics from the City College of New York and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. Mr. Horowitz also
serves on advisory boards and as a Director of a number of companies, including EaglePicher, The Tennis Channel, One Laptop
Per Child (OLPC), and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the New York
Hall of Science and the March of Dimes.
Phillip Spector leads business development activities, as
well as all legal and regulatory
matters, within the Intelsat group of companies. His responsibilities include the negotiation and structuring of strategic
ventures and acquisitions; government affairs and regulation; the procurement of spacecraft and launch services; compliance
with antitrust, securities and export laws; and the provisioning of satellite capacity worldwide.
Mr. Spector joined Intelsat in 2005 from the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP,
where he was the managing partner of the Washington office and the Chairman of the firm's communications & Technology
Group. Mr. Spector has a strong background in the satellite sector, having represented in private practice Intelsat, other
major satellite operators, users of substantial satellite capacity, and major satellite manufacturers. The former Chairman
of the American Bar Association's International Communications Committee, Mr. Spector was recognized by European Counsel as
"the leading satellite specialist in Washington," and was profiled for his "skilled legal work" in American Lawyer.
John Mattingly has served as MSV's President of
Satellite Services since March of 2007.
Prior to joining MSV, Mr. Mattingly served as President, Satellite Services, for COMSAT Corp and Lockheed Martin Global
Telecom from 1997 to 2001 and President of COMSAT International from 2001 to 2002. From 2002 to 2007 Mr. Mattingly has
participated in the satellite and telecommunications industries as a private investor and management consultant. Earlier
in his career Mr. Mattingly was Senior Vice President and General Manager, OrionNet, Inc., a subsidiary of Orion
Network Systems from 1993 to 1994. From 1982 to 1993 Mr. Mattingly worked for American Satellite Company, which subsequently
became CONTEL ASC, and then merged with GTE Spacenet in 1991.
Robert Bell is Executive Director of the Society of
Satellite Professionals International
(SSPI), where he is responsible for the programs, finances and operations of the Society. During his tenure, Mr. Bell
successfully put SSPI on-line, built sponsorship revenues and developed new chapters to expand the Society's international
reach. He has led business development missions to cities in Asia and the US; authored articles in Asia-Pacific Satellite,
The Municipal Journal of Telecommunications Policy, Telecommunications and Asian Communications; and appeared in segments
of ABC World News and The Discovery Channel. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences including
Satellite, NAB and SATCON.
Joseph N. Pelton is Director of the Space and
Advanced Communications Research Institute
(SACRI) at George Washington University. He is also the founder and Vice Chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. He
was the founder and First President of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), the former Dean and
Chairman of the Board of the International Space University and Editor Emeritus of the International Journal of Space
Communications. Dr. Pelton is the author of 25 books and major research studies in the field. His writings include the multi-book
series: E-Sphere, Future View, Future Talk, and Global Talk, the latter of which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
and won the Eugene Emme literature award. He is a Member of the International Academic of Astronautics, a Fellow of the
International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, and an associate Fellow of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also the former head of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the
University of Colorado and the former Director of Strategic Planning at Intelsat.
Courtney Stadd is founder and currently the President of
Capitol Solutions, a management
consulting services firm. Previously, Mr. Stadd was NASA's Chief of Staff and White House Liaison. He assumed this position
after being named to head the Presidential transition team in December 2000 to oversee leadership changes at NASA. Within the
U.S. Government Courtney Stadd's previous positions have included: Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Advanced Concepts
and Technology, and Special Assistant to the Administrator, NASA Headquarters. Senior Director, White House National Space Council.
Director, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation. Special Assistant
for Aerospace, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce. As a senior corporate executive, Mr. Stadd has co-founded
several satellite and space transportation ventures including Colorado-based EarthWatch (renamed DigitalGlobe), one of the fastest
growing high resolution commercial satellite firms, and ARC Technologies (renamed American Rocket Company) whose hybrid propulsion
technology was employed by the legendary Burt Rutan on the maiden voyage of his rocket SpaceShipOne.
Gregg Maryniak is the Director of the James S.
McDonnell Planetarium, Vice President for
Aerospace Science of the St. Louis Science Center and Executive Vice President of the X PRIZE Foundation. He formerly
served as Executive Director of the X PRIZE Foundation, Senior Scientist of the Futron Corporation and Chief Executive
Officer of the Space Studies Institute of Princeton. He is a member of the faculty of the International Space University
and he has been awarded the Russian Tsiolkovsky Medal for his work on the use of the resources of free space. He has also
received the Space Frontier Foundation's Vision to Reality Award for his role in creating the Lunar Prospector Mission
launched in 1998.
J. Steven Newman is Vice President of the Ares Corporation
where he provides support to NASA's
manned space program and a number of aerospace corporations that are involved with the Shuttle Program and the Orion and Ares
vehicles for the Moon-Mars Program. Formerly Dr. Neuman, as a member of the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance was a
key architect in the design and operation of the NASA Process Based Mission Assurance-Knowledge Based System. This new PBMA-KBS
capability was developed in response to a number of NASA accidents and safety mishaps in the mid1990s. This PBMA-KMS capability
is a user-friendly, web-based system designed to support life-cycle safety and mission success management. Safety experts from
around the world are encouraged to use the PBMA-KMS by participating in discipline oriented work groups, and contributing best
practices, lessons learned, and ideas for future functional enhancements.
Lon Rains is a Vice President of the Imaginova
Corporation. In this position Lon Rains
has served as the editor of Space News since 1993 and is responsible for all news and editorial coverage in the paper
and on the spacenews.com website. He joined the original staff of Space News in October 1989 as the Advanced Technology
and Soviet space program reporter. Rains has worked as a journalist since 1982.He came to Space News from the Journal
newspapers, a chain of dailies serving the Washington, D.C. suburbs. He has won reporting awards for editorial writing,
spot news and public service journalism. Rains has a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Maryland.
Don M. Flournoy, Editor, Online Journal of Space
Communication, is Professor of Media Arts and
Studies, Ohio University, Athens. Dr. Flournoy serves as Education VP on the board of the Society of Satellite Professionals
International (SSPI), the professional development association of the satellite and space industry. From 1990-2007, he was
Director, Ohio University Institute for Telecommunications Studies. His research interests lie in the application of information
and communication technologies (ICTs) to the solution of human problems. He is the author of seven books, including The Broadband
Millennium: Communication Technologies and Markets, Chicago: International Engineering Consortium, 2004, and hundreds of scholarly
articles and papers. He holds an undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University (1959), and graduate degrees from the
University of London-UK (1961) and the University of Texas (1965). He was Assistant Dean, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland
(1965-1969); Associate Dean, State University of New York/Buffalo (1969-71); Dean of the University College at Ohio University
(1971-81).
John Ordway has practiced law for over two decades primarily
in the fields of government
procurement and export control law. Mr. Ordway's current practice focuses on the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
(ITAR). He is recognized globally for his expertise in application of these requirements to various segments of the commercial
space industry, particularly in advising about the ITAR in connection with disputes regarding U.S. satellite failures and
purchases by foreign persons of U.S. satellites. Mr. Ordway is a former co-chair of the ABA International Section's
International Procurement Committee, an Advisor to the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore
School of Law, and speaks and writes frequently on the ITAR and government procurement. His firm Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe,
L.L.P. is a sponsor of the Washington Space Business Roundtable. Mr. Ordway received his J.D. from George Washington University
Law School, and his B.A. from Harvard University. Between college and law school, Mr. Ordway studied Mandarin Chinese in Hong Kong
and Taiwan on a Rotary Graduate Fellowship.
Contents
Issue No. 13:
Commercialization of Space
Commercialization of Space
Winter 2008
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