Guillermo Söhnlein has spent almost ten years in leadership roles with various technology startups in the Washington DC area as well as Silicon Valley. His recent East Coast ventures include an online service helping commuters to share rides, a mobile games distribution platform, and a Web-based communication suite for small and mid-sized businesses. Previously, he was co-founder of a San Francisco-based speech recognition application development firm that was acquired in 2001.

Guillermo is the Founder and Chairman of the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs, an online community focused on promoting global entrepreneurship in space ventures. He served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate and currently serves on various Advisory Boards and teaches entrepreneurship.

Guillermo earned an A.B. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Burton Lee has spent more than fifteen years working in venture-backed startups, global high tech corporations, strategic consulting firms, leading research universities, and federal and state agencies. His experience includes senior positions with leading technology organizations such as GE Global Research, Hewlett Packard, DaimlerChrysler AG, and NASA. His expertise spans the commercial space, aviation, information technology, nanotech, alternative energy, clean tech, and robotics industries.

Burton currently serves as Managing Partner of Innovarium Ventures, a firm that provides strategic, financial and technical advisory services to startup companies, venture capital and private equity firms, angel networks, investment banks, major corporations, and federal and state agencies. He served as Chairman of the highly successful Space Venture Finance Symposium held in May 2007, and is a co-founder of Spaceport America in New Mexico.

Burton holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering from Stanford, an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from Cornell University, and an AB in Physics from Brown University. He is a graduate of the founding class of the International Space University.

Andy Forbes has worked for a series of high tech startups and turnarounds, including a ride sharing application service provider, an online disk to disk backup company, an industrial robotics company, an automated DVD rental company, and a professional services/recruiting firm. Prior to that he worked for several government contractors, including an onsite stint at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as a window coverings company, a janitorial services company, and a concrete picnic table manufacturer.

Andy has co-founded companies, built teams, raised capital, managed software development and company server rooms and data center equipment, and has been a truck driver, a janitor, a salesman, and a paperboy. He currently produces a podcast on entrepreneurship, edits a blog on Washington, DC, USA area startups, and moderates a discussion list for entrepreneurs.

Andy has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Joe Landon's professional career as an engineer and manager includes work with aerospace and technology companies of all sizes and stages. He currently manages sales at McMaster-Carr, a national industrial supply company in Atlanta , GA. Previously he was a financial and strategic analyst at Space Adventures. Joe’s experience also includes work as a systems engineer and project manager on several commercial satellite programs at Boeing.

Joe has been an active advocate of the commercial space industry, serving as executive producer of Yuri's Night Los Angeles and as advisor to various space companies and student groups.

Joe earned a B.S. in Engineering-Physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California . He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School , where he was an Arthur Rock Entrepreneurial Fellow and semi-finalist in the MIT 100k business plan competition.

Ryan Hudson is a technology enthusiast, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a co-founder of YouShoot, the first nationwide digital camera rental company for events. YouShoot has been widely recognized as a pioneer and has been featured by media outlets including ABC News and Business Week. For his role at YouShoot, he was recognized by Business Week Online as a “Top Young Entrepreneur of Tech” in November 2005.

Ryan was an associate at TD Capital Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm where he conducted due diligence on companies and technology markets including space, clean tech, digital media, biotech, and semiconductors. Previously, he was an IT analyst at Forrester Research, where he researched and wrote about global IT spending, technology adoption, and organizational behaviors. He was an early proponent of open source databases and wrote Forrester’s first report on MySQL, which recently sold for $1 billion after raising less than $40 million in venture capital.

Ryan earned a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Cornell University, as well as an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Roy Hogstedt has spent more than ten years working on some of the world’s most advanced space systems. He has held a variety of technical and leadership positions at TRW, Northrop Grumman, and most recently Science Applications International Corporation, where he was recently awarded the SAIC 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for his groundbreaking work on executing a system engineering program for a next generation satellite system.

Roy's experience includes new business development, project management, lecturing, senior systems engineering, proposal development, conceptual spacecraft design, requirements development, integration, and test and flight operations. As an inventor, he also holds two patents for an improved snowboard binding.

Roy graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach. He also earned an M.S. in Systems Engineering with an emphasis in Astronautics and an MBA with an emphasis in Entrepreneurial Finance from the University of Southern California. He holds a certificate in Technology Commercialization from the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Marshall School of Business at USC, where he was also involved with the Entrepreneurial Venture Management Association (EVMA). As a new engineering graduate student, he founded USC's American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) student chapter.