He has over 30 years of experience in software engineering, developing complex systems, managing software development teams, and delivering products. He has performed technical due diligence and business strategy assessments for venture capital firms and advanced technology start-ups. In 2013, he left the IT industry to follow his passion for space exploration. Mr. Hurst founded Orbital Transports to develop the space logistics and orbital infrastructure technologies needed for the emerging economy of space resources—and ultimately to support human settlement of the Solar System. Mr. Hurst performs systems engineering and project management for small satellite space missions. He is a contributor to the INCOSE Space Systems Working Group CubeSat System Reference Model and develops MBSE practices for small satellite missions. As an advocate of space-related and space-scalable business, he founded the NewSpace Chicago community of space entrepreneurs and others engaged in building commercial space ventures in Chicago. Mr. Hurst graduated from Northwestern University with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has received four patents. 

During his 25-year Information Technology career, he specialized in strategic business and technology planning and implementation, technical sales/business development, marketing, and communications.
Jeff left the IT industry in 2004 to establish his space career in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area. He quickly conceived the North Carolina Aero/Space* Economic Development Project and received two grants for educating political, business, and economic development leaders about the entrepreneurial NewSpace industry and its significance for the state’s manufacturing sectors. He was the primary researcher and author of The Aero/Space Economy in North Carolina: A Preliminary Assessment of Current Performance and Future Prospects, and a key contributor to North Carolina’s Strategic Plan for Workforce Development in the Aviation and Aerospace Industries. In 2009, The North Carolina Aerospace Alliance retained Jeff to organize the state’s first NewSpace Commerce Forum. In 2010, Jeff led a commercial spaceport exploratory committee involving regional economic development organizations, and the state’s Department of Commerce and Department of Transportation.
From January 2005 through December 2007, Jeff was Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, a non-profit NewSpace advocacy organization. He has been widely recognized for dramatically improving its professional impact, reputation, and operations.
Jeff is a global speaker and strategic thinker, appearing across the United States and Europe, and in Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He has been interviewed for newspapers, magazines, radio, and television from Los Angeles to Palm Beach, as well as in Europe and Asia.

He is a staff Astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and has served as PI on nearly $5M of grant funding, including over $3M of federal grants. He has 15 years of experience managing R&D groups, including the development of a star-tracker for the VERITAS project, novel algorithms for the extraction of high energy events in the presence of spatial and temporal noise, and imaging, control and communications systems for high altitude balloons.
Dr. Gyuk has interests in a broad range of subjects ranging from planetary exospheres to particle-physics cosmology. At the Adler Planetarium, he founded and leads the Far Horizons program, which is a community of amateurs, students and volunteers who design, build, and operate space exploration missions. Currently he is a member of the international VERITAS collaboration, which built and operates the world’s most sensitive TeV gamma-ray observatory. As part of Adler’s NEO followup and AVAST groups, he also studies Near-Earth Objects and the composition of V-type (basaltic) asteroids, thought to be remnants of larger proto-planetary objects. Dr. Gyuk received his degrees at Brown University and the University of Chicago.

His focus at Quadrant is in the areas of strategic consulting, innovation, IP commercialization and the building of strategic alliances.
Harry is actively involved with a variety of organizations across many industries. In addition, Harry serves on innovation and advisory councils for several major brand organizations. Harry frequently speaks in public in the areas of innovation, sustainability, renewable energy and packaging, and serves as a guest lecturer in academia.
Harry has numerous published articles in peer-reviewed international theoretical physics journals and is an accomplished classical pianist. He was educated at Dawson College and McGill University in Montreal in math, physics, business and chemistry. He is married, has four children and is based in Chicago.

Space Systems Working Group since 2014. He has been the principal contributor to the development of the CubeSat System Reference Model (CSRM) founded on Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles. The CSRM has been submitted to the Object Management Group (OMG) for consideration as an international specification.
David has thirty-four years of experience at Lockheed Martin in both the technical and management aspects of developing ground mission capabilities and he has five years of experience at Analytical Graphics where he initiated the development of the CSRM.
At Lockheed Martin, David worked on a number of Mission Data Collection systems. As Chief Engineer for a Follow-on Mission Data Collection System he established the technical baseline through a series of meetings and reviews with government contracting officers, program managers, development managers, and chief engineers of other segments. He supervised and assessed architecture trade studies and developed the planning and scheduling system concept of operations. As a Systems Engineer, he developed mission planning and scheduling algorithms and supported ongoing operations, including working with ground and space engineers to make modifications to satellite operations that resolved on-board equipment degredations and failures.
David received an A.B in Mathematics and an M.S in Physics from Indiana University, a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan, and did post-graduate work in Physics at Leigh University. He is co-author of four chapters in Cost-Effective Space Mission Operations, and has published over 25 papers on systems engineering. He is a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Object Management Group (OMG), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and IEEE.

achieving immunological tolerance to the therapeutic transgene. The ultimate goal is to use this knowledge to develop safe, effective treatments for monogenic diseases such as hemophilia, which could be administered shortly after, or prior to, birth.
Additionally, he spent more than 10 years studying stem cell-based gene therapy, employing hematopoietic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells as delivery vehicles for a variety of marker and therapeutic transgene cassettes. He has a great deal of experience transducing bone marrow-derived stem cells with a variety of viral vectors, and with tracking/characterizing stem cell engraftment after transplantation.
More recently, as a NASA-funded investigator working with NASA’s Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), he has applied his knowledge of hematopoiesis and stem cell assay systems to define the effects of solar particle event and galactic cosmic ray radiation and conditions of microgravity on the human hematopoietic/immune system, using unique in vitro and humanized mouse model systems. The ultimate goal of this work is to define the risk of leukemogenesis astronauts will face during long-duration missions in deep space (such as those NASA has planned to the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and Mars) and developing effective countermeasures to keep astronauts safe.
He received a Bachelor’s degree from Colgate University in molecular biology and a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology and Physiology. His thesis work was on in utero gene therapy under the tutelage of Dr. Esmail Zanjani, a pioneer and world leader in the field of fetal therapies.

He regularly works with the world’s best-known brands, in industries as diverse as ecommerce, retail, aerospace, finance, and consumer products.
He also currently serves as COO for Alpine Consulting, a technology firm advising mid-sized through Fortune 100 companies. Previously, he worked for Deloitte, where he managed strategic technology planning, system implementations, and process reengineering projects for real estate and financial industry clients.
In addition, he is an active investor in tech-enabled startups and sits on several Boards for prominent companies.