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Space Investment Summit 8

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
8:30 am – 6:30 pm
InterContinental Chicago Hotel O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois


Entrepreneurial Business Plan Presentations

SIS-8 invited entrepreneurs to submit space commerce business plans for consideration at the Summit.  A panel of investors and space commerce experts evaluated applicant entrepreneur business plans, selected top candidates and invited the entrepreneurs below to present business plans at the Summit.

Linear Signal
Gregory Mockett, President
Linear Signal helps satellite antenna OEMs and system integrators deliver economical Phased Arrays and Phased Array Feeds to their markets, leveraging our low cost/high performance beamformer chips, array tiles and full, private-labeled antenna assemblies.

Orbital Technologies Corporation
Thomas Crabb, President
Commercialization growth and spin-offs in propulsion and space resources, human support, emergency response, bio-products and interactive 3D.

Skycorp Incorporated
Dennis Wingo, Chief Executive Officer
Patented On Orbit Assembly process for large spacecraft on the International Space Station.

Janet’s Planet
Janet Ivey, President/Founder
Launch pad for tomorrow’s scientists and space explorers designed to inspire students to use the scientific process.

Packer Engineering Inc
Dr. Peter Schubert, President
Drop, load and start - Robotic ISRU factory produces many times its own weight in oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, and refractory bricks.

The Elwing Company
Gregory Emsellem, President
Proprietary breakthrough technology opening up a new segment of the satellite propulsion market.

Business Plan Commentators

Special thank you to all our business plan commentators for taking the time to help with our presentations. 

Amaresh Kollipara, Managing Partner, Earth2Orbit LLC (Moderator)
Michael Leventhal, Attorney/Consultant, mc² The Law Firm (Moderator)
Jennifer W. Berlin, Counsel, Tucker Ellis & West LLP
Daniel Faber, Entrepreneur & Engineer
Ian Fichtenbaum, Associate, Near Earth LLC
Michael Lindenmayer, Managing Partner, Lindenmayer, Piquet & Company
Periklis Papadopoulos, PhD, Founder & CEO, Space Systems LLC
Alan Tratner, Founder, Green2Gold; President, Inventors Workshop International & Entrepreneur’s Workshop; Director, Small Business Entrepreneurship Center