Biography

Tedson J. Meyers is a telecommunications attorney in Washington, D.C., well-known for his work in satellite and international telecommunications.  The first attorney to be elected President of the International Council for Computer Communication, Mr. Meyers is also an Honorary Academician of the International Telecommunication Academy of Russia, an arm of the Russian Academy of Science; and an Honorary Vice Chairman of the International Association of Contract and Commerical Managers.  In addition to his leadership role in ACCF, Mr. Meyers chairs the American Bar Association effort to expand the services of the Law Library of Congress, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  A holder of the U.S. Secretary of the Army's Public Service Medal, he is also an Adjunct Professor of Communication at San Diego State University.  Mr. Meyers served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; Assistant to the Director of the Peace Corps; and as a member of the Washington, D.C. City Council, appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate.  A Company Commander, First Marine Division, Korea, Mr. Meyers is a graduate of the Harvard Law School where he was Founding President of the Harvard Legislative Research Bureau.

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton is currently Director of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI) at George Washington University. This Institute is engaged in many projects including one that involves a major review of the Space Shuttle and International Space Station and the effectiveness of its safety program. He played a key role in the establishment of the International Space University of Strasbourg, France where he served as Chairman of the Board (1992-95) and Vice President of Academic Programs and Dean (1996-97).  This experimental international academic institution specializes in graduate interdisciplinary studies and hosts study programs at leading universities around the world in addition to its Masters program conducted at its main campus in France.  From 1989 to 1996 Dr. Pelton served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado where he also headed the Center for Research in Telecommunications.  From 1969 to 1989 Dr. Pelton held a number of management positions with COMSAT Corporation and the INTELSAT global satellite organization, including the position of Director of Strategic Planning. Dr. Pelton also led Project Share at Intelsat that led to the start of the Chinese National TV University and dozens of other national and international tele-education and tele-health projects around the world. Dr. Pelton is the author of over 20 books or research studies in the field that include writings on satellites, advanced telecommunications technology and regulation and especially about the long range impactof technology on society. His book Global Talk received a Pulitzer Prize nomination and won the literature award of the American Astronomical Society. He was the founding President of the Society of Satellite Professionals International and has been elected to this organization's Hall of Fame. He has also been elected to full membership in the International Academy of Astronautics as well as elected a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received the 2001 Authur C. Clarke Prize and was presented the outstanding educator award of the International Communications Association in 1996.

Scott Chase is president and founder of Chase Media, a small, business-to-business company in the Washington, D.C., area specializing in trade publishing, business development and sales support, editorial services, and corporate representation. Chase previously was Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, for PBI Media LLC (July 2002 - November 2003), a media company serving the commercial and military satellite, aviation, defense, telecom, broadband/cable, and film and video production communities worldwide. Before that, Chase was president and chief executive officer of The Strategis Group (August 2000 - June 2002). Chase was senior vice president and group publisher, Satellite and Space Group, for Phillips Business Information, Inc., where he worked for nearly 15 years. In addition to managing all trade show activities, special events, and executive seminars, he served as editor and/or publisher of Via Satellite magazine for ten years (1987-1997). Chase worked at Communications Satellite Corp. as a public and investor relations professional from 1981 to 1985. He was with The Washington Post from 1977 to 1981 as a news staffer.

Mr. Logue is currently Senior Director, Business Development, Orbital Communications International, Orbital Sciences Corporation, in Dulles, Virginia, where he specializes in marketing and sales matters related to the company’s geostationary product line. He has worked in the satellite and related fields for more than 25 years, most of that time with law firms as a consultant on commercial and regulatory matters. He is widely recognized for his contributions to professional organizations in his field, such as the Society of Satellite Professionals International, for which he was the President of the Mid-Atlantic chapter for two years, and the Pacific Telecommunications Council, where he now sits on the Advisory Council and coordinates the satellite industry’s participation in the Council’s conferences. He is also well known as a conference speaker and press source.

Dr. Bravman is currently engaged in a number of satellite projects both as an entrepreneur and an advisor. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Maryland Angels Council, an early stage investment fund, as well as a number of boards, including of NDIA, the University of Maryland CSHCN, and the Cornell University Engineering School. Dr. Bravman was formerly Senior Vice President of Orbital Sciences Corporation, where he was responsible for Corporate Development, after serving as Chief Engineer and in a number of group general management positions. Prior to Orbital's acquisition of Fairchild in 1994, he was Executive Vice President of Fairchild Space and Defense Corporation and previously President of Fairchild's electronics systems division.

Dr. Collins is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. For the last two years, he has served as chair of the program committee for the Mutual Concerns Seminar of Air and Space Museums, a joint undertaking of the Smithsonian and the American Association of Museums to enhance the quality of these museums within the U.S. and internationally. He is an often consulted authority on oral history and archives and is the author/editor of several books focusing on the history of science, technology, and society in the 20th century.

Ambassador Dougan has served in senior communications technology, foreign policy and management positions for more than three decades, including appointments by three U.S. Presidents (Republican and Democrat) to Senate-confirmed positions. She is currently Chair of the Cyber Century Forum (501(c)3), Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Co-chair of the Governing Board of the Center for Information Infrastructure and Economic Development (CIIED) under the auspices of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). As the first statutory U.S. Coordinator and administratively as Assistant Secretary of State from 1982-88, Ambassador Dougan oversaw US telecom, IT and broadcast interests internationally on behalf of a dozen federal agencies. Since that time, she has continued to spearhead a diversity of multi-lateral, multi-industry initiatives and serves on a number of fiduciary and advisory boards.

Mrs. Edwards, who is Arthur C. Clarke's niece, is the Company Secretary and administrator of Rocket Publishing, Ltd., the UK-based Clarke family business. She has worked for the Company for almost 16 years. She also works as a school librarian.

George Hartman, FAIA, is a designer, teacher, and publisher. An internationally acclaimed architect, George is principal emeritus of Hartman–Cox architects and co-publisher of Academy Press. George was founding principal for 40 years of Hartman–Cox in Washington, D.C., which has received over one hundred national and international design awards, including the American Institute of Architects Firm award in 1988 and American Institute of Classical Architecture firm award in 2006. George is a Fellow of the AIA and the American Academy in Rome, and recipient of the prestigious Centennial Award in 2005, the highest honor bestowed by the AIA DC Chapter. In addition to the Pencil Points Reader, he co-edited with Warren Cox Hartman–Cox: Selected and Currents Works (Images, 1994). George received his BA and MFA in architecture from Princeton University. He has taught at Catholic University, North Carolina State University, and the University of Maryland, and has served on numerous juries and lectured extensively. He has also served as president of the AIA Washington Chapter, and as a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and the U.S. Department of State’s Architectural Advisory Board of the Foreign Buildings Office.

Mr. Holt is the former Managing Director of British Aerospace Space and Communications Ltd. and until 2002 a Founding Director of McLaurin-Holt Associates Ltd., a consultancy concerned with European space and defence matters. He is currently non-executive Chairman of ESYS PLC, a space and IT consultancy, and a non-executive director of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., a company prominent in small satellite technology. He is also a member of Council of the University of Surrey, of the United Kingdom, is Visiting Professor to the Royal Military College of Science, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Capital College, MD.

Edward D. Horowitz is President and CEO of SES Americom, a market-leading satellite operator, and a member of the Executive Committee of its parent company, SES Global (Euronext Paris, Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG). Prior to SES, Mr. Horowitz founded EdsLink LLC a venture fund providing strategic financial, operations, and technology consulting services, including serving as Strategic Advisor to the CEO of Cablevision’s satellite service division, Rainbow DBS, and a member of Rainbow's Executive Committee. (He also served as an advisor to SPARX Group [Japan - 8739], an independent, publicly-traded Japanese financial services and investment company.)

Prior to forming 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 senior advisor on the Internet to the Office of the Chairman and as a member of the Management and Investment Committees of Citigroup. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Horowitz was Senior Vice President, Viacom Inc., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Viacom Interactive Media and a member of the Viacom Executive Committee and, prior to Viacom, Mr. Horowitz held various 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 The Tennis Channel, iVillage [NASDAQ - iVil], American Reprographics Company [NYSE - ARC], and is a member of the Board of the New York Hall of Science.

Since 1985, Susan J. Irwin has been president of Irwin Communications, Inc., a consulting and strategic communications firm focusing on satellite communications applications and markets. Prior to establishing Irwin Communications, Ms. Irwin served in several key positions in the emerging satellite industry. At the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), she managed the Satellite Applications Program, which was designed to stimulate the use of the then newly launched commercial satellites for delivery of distance education, corporate communications and training in the US and in developing countries. She was also a key member of two start-up firms that utilized satellites for education and corporate communications -- National Information Utilities Corporation and Private Satellite Network. She is a co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Society of Satellite Professionals International, Chairperson of the Global VSAT Forum’s Broadband Multimedia Working Group and Chair of SATCON, the Satellite Application and Technology Conference and Expo.

Mr. Marshall is well-known for his leadership in the field of international video transmission via satellite, having been President of Keystone Communications and its successor, Globecast, a leading provider of video transmission services for broadcasters. He had previously worked for the BBC and went on to senior positions with Visnews, the international TV news agency (now ReutersTV), its satellite transmission subsidiary Brightstar, and was head of broadcast services at Intelsat, the international satellite operator, from 1986-89. He served as President of the SSPI (Society of Satellite Professionals International) from 1988-93 and became a member of the Society’s “Hall of Fame” in 2003.

Ms. Roseman is founder and head of CompassRose International, a communications and media consulting firm specializing in international, strategic management and market entry matters. Prior to founding her firm, Ms. Roseman was the first Director of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Office of International Communications. Ms. Roseman also spent six years in senior executive positions with INTELSAT in the areas of external relations, business development and strategic planning. Before joining INTELSAT, Ms. Roseman was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She also served as Senior Vice President of National Affairs and Planning at National Public Radio and as an official with the former White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. Ms. Roseman began her career in communications as a print journalist covering education and civil rights, and then as Managing Editor of the National Cable Television Association's publications programs. Ms. Roseman is active in a number of professional activities, including several involving the International Telecommunication Union regarding private sector, gender and youth issues, where she chairs its Youth Forum and Telecommunications Development Steering Committee and the Working Group on Private Sector Issues. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. ITU Association, and a member or past member of a number of professional, financial and publishing advisory committees.

Mr. Trujillo is Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, of Intelsat Global Service Corporation, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Trujillo has held a number of senior corporate communications and administration positions with Intelsat. In his current position, he oversees five corporate service departments that support the entire group of Intelsat companies, including responsibility for human resources, corporate and internal communications, government affairs, facilities management and security. He is directly responsible for Intelsat’s liaison activities with the U.S. government, including the Executive Branch, Congress and the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Trujillo headed the Corporate Communications and Government Affairs Department from 1990 to mid-2001, where he was responsible for public affairs, media relations, advertising, corporate publications and other communications activities. He established a strong legislative affairs capability within the company, playing a critical role in obtaining U.S. Government approval for Intelsat’s 2001 privatization, as well as obtaining the passage of two related federal laws. Prior to joining Intelsat in 1985, Mr. Trujillo was associated with the public affairs/public relations firms of Doremus & Company, the Hannaford Company, and Gray and Company. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute and the Satellite Industry Association.

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Mr. Ordway was fortunate in the early decades of the Space Age to have had assignments in key sectors of industry, including the Engineering Division at Reaction Motors, Inc.; Republic Aviation Corporation’s Guided Missiles Division; General Astronautics Research Corporation; National Research and Development Corporation; the Saturn Systems Office and the ARPA-NASA Projects Office in the Development Operations Division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. He also directed the Space Information Systems Office at the NASA-George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Later, he became a professor at The University of Alabama at Huntsville’s School of Graduate Studies and Research and Research Institute. Paralleling his professional career in rocketry, astronautics, and energy research, Ordway has been collecting, documenting and writing about the history and evolution of rocketry and spaceflight. In the mid-1960s, Ordway served as technical advisor on the Stanley Kubrick-Arthur C. Clarke MGM/Cinerama production 2001: A Space Odyssey, initially from offices in New York City and later at the MGM British Studios in Borehamwood, England. Over the years he has lectured widely on the film; and, during the titular year 2001, he chaired and coordinated many programs and delivered a number of lectures regarding the film. His published works include over 300 articles on rocketry, astronautics and energy, and he has edited book series on space technology and astronautics. He has for many years been a member of the Science Advisory Committee of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, in Huntsville and serves on the center’s Museum Committee and the Saturn V Restoration Committee.