Biography

Tedson J. Meyers was a Washington, D.C. telecommunications attorney, now retired, 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. 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 former President of Washington, D.C.'s Cosmos Club, he also served as 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. He now resides in Fairhope, Alabama.

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton is emeritus 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 has worked in the satellite industry and related fields for more than 25 years, most of that time with law firms as a consultant on commercial and regulatory matters. He has also worked for Orbital Sciences Corporation and the Communications Satellite Corporation during his career. He is currently an independent consultant on various satellite-related projects. 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 is now co-chair of the Advisory Council and helps coordinate the satellite industry’s participation in the Council’s annual conferences. He is also well known as a conference speaker and press source.

Dr. Bravman is currently engaged in a number of satellite and communications 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 NDIA, Syntonics LLC, and the Cornell University Engineering Alumni Association. 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 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. He is editor of the academic journal History and Technology and managing editor of the book series Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, published by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 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. Horowitz is Chairman of EdsLink LLC, a New York City based venture capital firm and Senior Executive Advisor to Tennenbaum Capital Partners, a Santa Monica based Private Investment firm. Most recently he served as President and CEO of SES AMERICOM, a market-leading satellite operator serving media, the DOD and other government agencies, as well as business customers. In addition he was a member of the Executive Committee of its Luxembourg based parent company, SES. Prior to forming EdsLink, Mr. Horowitz founded and was Chairman of e-Citi, the unit of Citigroup created to pioneer electronic commerce and financial services and was a member of Citigroup’s operating and executive committees.

Before joining Citibank he was Senior Vice President, Viacom Inc., Chairman and CEO of the Viacom Broadcast and Interactive Media groups and a member of the Viacom Executive Committee. From 1974 to 1989, Mr. Horowitz held various senior management positions at Home Box Office (HBO), a subsidiary of Time Warner. Mr. Horowitz currently serves on advisory boards or as a Director of a number of companies, including Global Entertainment & Media Holdings (GEMH), EaglePicher, The Tennis Channel and the American Management Association (AMA).

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Hall of Science, the March of Dimes, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and is a Cable Pioneer. Mr. Horowitz holds a B.S. in Physics from CCNY and a Masters of Business from Columbia University.

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.

Monica Morgan is founder of MoJoMo Communications, a small, business-to-business communications firm that specializes in developing campaigns and events supporting the branding, market development and customer relations of companies in the satellite industry. Previously, Morgan was the Vice President of Princeton-based SES AMERICOM/GE AMERICOM, the largest supplier of commercial satellite services in the U.S. serving the broadcast, government and enterprise markets. Prior to this assignment, Morgan worked with large enterprises in the development of private satellite networks and events. Her broadcast expertise comes from six years with the Public Broadcasting Service where she produced live, satellite-delivered events and led the group that developed and delivered daily programming to business and educational sites. Her early career was spent with three not-for-profit organizations based in the Washington, DC area: the Capital Children's Museum, the American Film Institute, and the Friends of the National Zoo.

Darrell Pepper is presently Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Nevada Center for Advanced Computational Methods (NCACM) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). He previously served as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering at UNLV from 2002-2003. In 2004 he was appointed an ASME Congressional Fellow and worked for Senator Feinstein as her senior staff member in Washington, DC where he handled science and engineering issues. Dr. Pepper is also Executive Vice President of Nevada Energy and Environmental Systems, which he founded in 2001. He previously served as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1996-2002, and founded the NCACM in 1996. He obtained his B.S.M.E., M.S.A.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Missouri – Rolla.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is University Professor of Public Service and president emeritus of The George Washington University, after serving nineteen years as the fifteenth president of the university. He arrived at GW in 1988 from the University of Hartford, where he served as president for eleven years. Prior to that, he was at Boston University for eight years, as dean of arts and sciences and vice president. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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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. 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.

Constance Chatfield-Taylor is the President and C.E.O. of Flying colors Broadcasts, Inc. in Washington, D.C. She incorporated Flying Colors in 1988 to specialize in transmission production and management of live, international televised special events and to provide management and production of live programs from Madison Square Garden to 147 sites worldwide via satellite and other transmission media. Since that time Flying Colors has greatly expanded its client base to include The White House (formal arrivals, live to Morocco, Bahrain, The Congo), Presidential campaigns, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO (AIDS conference live from Venezuela to 6 countries), Johns Hopkins (medical program live to Salzburg), Global Forum II (live from Moscow), Earth ’90 (live from Brooklyn Academy of Music – live inserts from a rainforest in Costa Rica, Sting in Rio); Chanukah Live! (10 countries participating live in the celebration of Chanukah) and many other customers around the world.

Flying Colors also does video productions and was proud to have recently donated it services to direct and produce a video on the life of Arthur C. Clarke. Flying Colors other productions have included: The Boston’s Foxboro stadium World Cup ’94; ESPN China – Table Tennis championships – 1996; Smithsonian – To the Moon and Beyond, a 25th Anniversary special of the walk on the moon. Flying Colors educational series projects have included the transmission of Howard Hughes lecture Series to various colleges and Coordination of Department of Education Live Town Meetings, and Secretary Riley’s State of American Education live broadcasts and distribution for the National Academy of Sciences a three day Symposium on Technology, featuring live participation from Sri Lanka, Beijing, and Moscow; virtual reality demonstrations, laser disc integration.

Finally Flying Colors has a number of ongoing corporate clients that include American Express, General Electric and others.

Ms. Chatfield-Taylor holds an B.A. degree from the University of Virginia. She is a member of the Society of Satellite Professionals, the Washington Metropolitan Area District Office District Advisory Council for the US Small Business Administration.