Gen. Joe Anderson is Deputy Director for the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, where he oversees the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. He served 33 years in the United States Marine Corps, flying 219 combat missions and commanding at every echelon of Marine Aviation. He served as Director of Operations, Director of Command, Control, Computers and Intelligence (C4I), and also as Vice Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command. He completed his career as a Major General in command of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Japan.

Gen. Anderson’s corporate experience includes positions as Vice President for Business Development at Advanced Navigation and Positioning Corporation in Hood River, Oregon, and then Corporate Vice President of the Dalcorp Advisory Group in Ashburn, Virginia. He has also served on the Boards of Directors of the Navy Federal Credit Union, Peduzzi Associates, and Digital Reasoning Systems, as well as the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia, and the Navy League. He founded NASM on the Road, an outreach organization utilizing the artifacts of the National Air and Space Museum to generate quality opportunities for recuperating service personnel and veterans.

Gen. Anderson earned a BS in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. His military education included the U.S. Air Force Flight School, the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School, and the National War College.

John May is the founder and managing partner of New Vantage Group, a Vienna, VA firm that innovatively mobilizes private equity into early-stage companies and provides advisory services to both funds and private investors. Mr. May’s experience in private equity capital over the last 20 years ranges from venture capital fund management to angel investing.

Mr. May co-founded The Dinner Club, an investment group of 60 regional angels who collectively invested in regional early-stage ventures. A larger private investor pool, the eMedia Club with 75 members, followed it, and in 2000, the Washington Dinner Club with 75 members was started. Active Angel Investors, a “pledge” fund was created in 2003. New Vantage Group administers all of these groups. Additionally, in 2006, New Vantage Group partnered with Focus Enterprises in the launch of Seraphim Capital, an expansion-stage, UK venture capital fund.

Mr. May has been at the forefront of the angel investor movement. In 1991, he co-founded the Investors' Circle, a national non-profit group of 125 family and institutional investors working to grow the social venture capital industry. Additionally, in 1996, he co-founded and became executive director of the Private Investors Network, an angel network sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association, which he led until 2002. John is now Chairman Emeritus of the Angel Capital Association (formerly a program of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation), is a lead instructor for the "Power of Angel Investing" seminars, and is co-author of two books, Every Business Needs an Angel (Crown Business: 2001), and State of the Art: An Executive Briefing on Cutting-Edge Practices in American Angel Investing (Darden Publishing: 2003).

Mr. May holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College.

Mike Miller, a University of Illinois Distinguished Aerospace Engineering Alumnus, has 30 years of space-related experience as a venture capitalist, investment consultant, business executive, entrepreneur, and engineer. He is a Managing Director and co-founder of Comspace Development, a private venture investment and strategic management firm specializing in the development of global ventures in aerospace, telecommunications, and information technologies. His investment experience includes leading technology investments as a Managing Director and Venture Partner for the BV Group, a $1B private equity firm.

As an entrepreneur and CEO, he successfully built into emerging growth companies TracerNet Corporation and Arc Second, Inc. In the early 1980s, Mr. Miller was a member of the founding team at Orbital Sciences Corp. where he was instrumental in developing early space commercialization and innovative private financing agreements. He also has held senior positions with Rockwell International, the Center for Innovative Technology, and Hughes Aircraft where he oversaw space systems development programs. He supported dozens of firms as an investor, advisor, and board member in developing their businesses and in creating innovative financial and operational strategies.

Mr. Miller holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Chicago and degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Walt Rossbach has a 50-year career as professional communicator with many of the world’s most successful aviation/space/defense organizations, both as agency director of their public relations and marketing communications programs and also as directly employed staff. He was President of the Aerospace and Defense Group, a division of Stackig, Sanderson and White, the area’s largest business-to-business PR and advertising agency, where he developed and managed campaigns for Airbus Aircraft, SAAB Aircraft, Dornier Aircraft, NASA, Arianespace, Kodak Govt. and Commercial Systems, Harris Corp., ITT Defense, NBAA, CFM Aircraft Engines and GE Aircraft Engines, among others.

Mr. Rossbach previously held various communications positions for the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), American Aviation Publications, and Fairchild Industries, where he worked with Dr. Wernher von Braun after his retirement from NASA. He also co-founded the prestigious Government Executive magazine with a small group of colleagues.

For the past five years, Mr. Rossbach has participated in developing the University of Tennessee’s Aerospace MBA Program, the only accredited program in the United States designed exclusively for aviation/space/defense professionals. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Queens College in New York.