SPACE TECH HOLDINGS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor in MIT 's Aeronautics
- Science
Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman is a professor in MIT's Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. He received a BA in Astronomy (summa cum laude) from Amherst College (1966); a PhD in Astrophysics from Harvard University (1971); and an MSc in Materials Science from Rice University (1988). As a NASA astronaut (1978-1997) he made five space flights, becoming the first astronaut to log 1000 hours of flight time aboard the Space Shuttle. Dr. Hoffman was Payload Commander of STS-46, the first flight of the US-Italian Tethered Satellite System. He has performed four spacewalks, including the first unplanned, contingency spacewalk in NASA's history (STS 51D; April, 1985) and the initial repair/rescue mission for the Hubble Space Telescope (STS 61; December, 1993). As the Astronaut Office representative for EVA, he helped develop and carry out tests of advanced high-pressure space suit designs and of new tools and procedures needed for the assembly of the International Space Station. Following his astronaut career, Dr. Hoffman spent four years as NASA's European Representative, working at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In August 2001, Dr. Hoffman joined the MIT faculty, where he teaches courses on space operations and space systems design. His primary research interests are in improving the technology of space suits and designing innovative space systems for human and robotic space exploration. Dr. Hoffman is director of the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium, responsible for space-related educational activities. He is Deputy Principal Investigator of an experiment on NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will for the first time produce oxygen from extraterrestrial material, a critical step in the future of human space exploration. In 2007, Dr. Hoffman was elected to the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Job Titles:
- Managing Member
- Strategic Adviser
Paul Simpson is a British Strategic Adviser and Business Mentor now living in Dallas, Texas.
Paul has a keen eye when it comes to spotting potential and has helped significant numbers of Entrepreneurs develop hyper growth in their organizations.
Paul has won multiple international awards and recognition for his work, including between 2005 and 2008 being classed as one of Europe's leading business mentors.
Paul's experience is diverse with deep knowledge of Technology, Engineering, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, compliance based industries, IT and Software Development, Manufacturing, Retail and Corporate Sales/Marketing/Recruiting, Leadership Development, SME's, Startups and Innovation Consulting.
Richard Godwin has been a serial entrepreneur and businessman since childhood. He has successfully created and built small medium and large companies over several industries in both Europe and North America. He became interested in space exploration when he was seven years old and avidly followed the Apollo Program to land people on the moon as well as many space programs since then. He has served as a Director on the Board of both the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation. With his brother Robert, he owns Apogee Books, a technical space book publishing company.
He has worked as a business consultant for Elon Musk at SpaceX building a business model for their nascent DragonLab spacecraft program. He served as CEO and Director of Zero Gravity Solutions Inc., ostensibly the world's first public company creating new products and technology on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station for use on Earth. He also served as CEO and President of Zero Gravity Life Sciences at that time.
He is a founding member of Starbridge Venture Capital fund as well as serving as a business consultant and Director of several cutting edge NewSpace and aerospace companies.