Ms. Poynter is a Paragon co-founder. She has served as SPACEHAB’s Chief Scientist for its Ecosystem in Space experiment on the International Space Station, and three experiments with ants, bees and fish, which flew on STS-107, the Space Shuttle Columbia. Ms. Poynter holds a patent for the Autonomous Biological System. She is Chief Scientist for Carbon Sequestration for the Seawater Foundation, a non-profit that is developing untreated seawater-based agroforestry projects in coastal deserts. She developed carbon sequestration models and ground truth methodologies for carbon credit trading, and documentation for the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund and the United Nations. Prior to her work with Paragon, Ms. Poynter was a member of the original team to live and work inside Biosphere 2, for which she led the design and implementation of the Intensive Agriculture. Her book, The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, is in stores. Her newest book, Champions for Change, Athletes Making a World of Difference, is now available.

Mr. MacCallum has worked at every level of command on a research vessel, sailing to over 40 ports and over 30,000 miles around the world. Training in Singapore, he became certified as a Commercial Dive Master and Advanced Diving Instructor. He served as Dive Master for a project to reintroduce two captive research dolphins to the wild, underwater ship salvage operations, and deep water specimen collecting expeditions in every ocean and most of the world’s seas.

Taber was a founding member of the Biosphere 2 Design, Development, Test & Operations team, and a crew member in the first two-year (and twenty minute) mission living and working inside the three-acre materially closed ecological system which supported the life of the eight human inhabitants. Demonstrating the viability of artificial biospheres, Biosphere 2 was designed for research applicable to environmental management on Earth and the development of closed loop human life support technology for long duration space travel.

Taber was responsible for the design, implementation and operation of the atmosphere and water management systems as well as the self-contained paperless analytical laboratories for Biosphere 2 that tested air, water, soil and tissue. As a crew member he served as Safety Officer, Assistant Medical Officer and Analytical Chemist, responsible for operation of all the analytical systems and much of the medical analysis and health monitoring systems. The analytical and medical laboratories performed all the analysis required to understand and operate Biosphere 2. Both systems operated completely independent from sample exchange or external resources. With a full suite of diagnostic and treatment capabilities from blood analysis and x-ray to minor surgery, medical facilities monitored and maintained crew health in difficult confined conditions without external material resources.

Mr. MacCallum co-founded Paragon in 1993, serving as Chief Executive Officer since its formation. He is also co-designer and patent holder for the Autonomous Biological System (ABS), a long duration plant and aquatic animal life support system. He was also the design lead for the Jet Propulsion Lab Mars Greenhouse Experiment Module (GEM) payload, and Mars GEM payload environmental control and plant life support system. He conceived and is presently involved in the design of a novel Mars space suit portable life support system technology funded by NASA, life support and thermal control systems for commercial manned orbital and suborbital spacecraft, as well as hazardous environment life support technology for U.S. Navy divers, in which he is the test diver. Starting with the design of Biosphere 2 systems, Taber has received numerous patents for space exploration related technologies.

Taber was the Principal Investigator on five microgravity experiments starting in 1988 on the Soviet BioSatellite, then the U.S. Space Shuttle, the Russian Mir Orbital Station and International Space Station. Four-month Mir experiments using the ABS produced the first animals to have completed their life cycle in microgravity, resulting in significant discoveries of innate verses learned animal behavior over multiple generations in space. The series of experiments also resulted in the first aquatic plants to be grown in space and the first completely closed ecological systems to be used in space, enabling truly controlled microgravity biological research. He has published numerous papers resulting from his work at Biosphere 2 on space biology, technology development and medical issues, and on the experience of living and working in an Isolated Confined Environment.

Paragon has design, development and hardware production responsibilities on several NASA flight and technology programs, including the Commercial Crew Transport Air Revitalization System, Crew Space Suit System, Orion Spacecraft, Solid Oxide oxygen production technology, portable life support technology for Mars, ISS Small Payload Quick Return system, and several human spacecraft thermal technologies including radiators, fluids and sublimation systems. For several years in a row now, Paragon has been listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America, and the fastest growing aerospace engineering company. Paragon has won numerous awards for management and innovation, including top honors from the Governor of Arizona for innovation and management.

As one of Paragon’s co-founders and VP of Engineering, Mr. Anderson has overseen Paragon’s projects since the company’s inception in 1993. He has more than 20 years experience designing power, thermal and life support systems for human-rated spacecraft. For the last six years, Mr. Anderson has led the Thermal Control System and Environmental Control and Life Support System design for every human-rated spacecraft program undertaken by Lockheed. He is currently our Technical Lead on the Lockheed Martin Crew Exploration Vehicle program. He has been Principal Investigator on numerous technology development programs, including our next generation structural radiator Phase II SBIR. Before starting Paragon, Mr. Anderson was the Design Leader of the ISS solar array program for Lockheed Martin. Mr. Anderson holds two degrees from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) and Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (M.S.), and is a registered professional engineer.

Mr. Cantrell is CEO and President of Strategic Space Development, a business development consulting firm. He was a co-founder and VP of Business Development for SpaceX and Business Development Director for Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, UT. He is well-known in space circles for his entrepreneurial skills, spirit and successes. During his career, he has participated on over 300 proposals worth over $1.4 billion in bids with a 70% win rate. Earlier in his career, Jim acquired extensive background in spacecraft and infrared imaging systems as an executive, program manager, and spacecraft systems engineer. He has considerable experience in international program management, including assignments at the French Space Agency CNES, on US/Russian joint missile-defense projects, and US/Russian joint private space projects. Jim is a lecturer on business development and space systems design, author of over 20 technical papers on space systems, and is fluent in Russian and French. He holds a B.S and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University.

Mr. Simm has been involved with Paragon since early 1998 and has been a director since 1999. During his time working at Paragon, Mr. Simm held the position of Chief Operating Officer and served the board as Chairman and Treasurer. Mr. Simm has an extensive background in IT and business management. Prior to joining Paragon, Mr. Simm was a Senior Architect for TIBCO Software (formerly a subsidiary of Reuters PLC.), a leading business integration software company, where he led strategic ‘special projects’ for key clients in the USA, Europe and Asia. He was a lead designer of the TIBCO Message Broker product and later became Director of the company’s knowledge management activities. Mr. Simm was also the founder and CEO of Amsolve, Inc., an IT consulting company, Engineering Manager at Starfish Software and Senior Engineer at Borland International. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and Accounting from Manchester University, England.

Dr. Bush has designed and analyzed human space transportation systems, including space shuttles, space station rescue vehicles, aerospace planes and Moon/Mars vehicles. He was the Chief Structural Engineer and System Configuration Manager for the HL 20, the most advanced human spacecraft development program since the shuttle. In the course of the HL 20 program, he also developed state-of-the-art software to perform optimal designs for safety and efficiency of space vehicles. While working as Manager for International Space Station Commercial Development at NASA Headquarters, Dr. Bush managed the International Space Station Entrepreneurial Offer Program. There he developed policy and technical reports for, and responses to, the US Congress and the White House regarding space commercialization programs. He also represented NASA as a space commercialization expert to international bodies including the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, and International Astronautical Federation.

Ms. Ines Anderson has more than 10 years of high technology marketing experience in corporate and agency settings in Silicon Valley. In her most recent corporate position, she served as a public relations manager for Filemaker (formerly Claris) Corporation. Ms. Anderson currently provides strategic marketing, planning, web content creation, public relations and fundraising support in the K-12 education market. Ms. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Stanford University.

Mr. McCormick has spent most of his career in product development for commercial and terrestrial markets, as well as mission and instrument development for the space industry. In association, or directly with, researchers, Principal Investigators and experimentalists, Mr. McCormick has helped over two dozen flown earth observation spacecraft, and several GEO and interplanetary missions. Mr. McCormick is currently performing similar tasks in his CEO role with Broad Reach Engineering, a high-end, high-performance avionics, software and mission design company for the space industry.

Mr. Rothenberg’s career spans 43 years, 25 years in the aerospace industry and 18 years with NASA. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Board of Directors and President of Universal Space Network Inc. He retired from NASA in 2001 as the associate Administrator for Space Flight, having been responsible for the Space Shuttle, International Space Station and all of NASA’s Space Operations and Space Communications programs. From 1995 until 1998, he served as director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Mr. Rothenberg joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 1983 as the Hubble Space Telescope Operations Manager. In 1987, he was named chief of the Mission Operations Division, and in 1989, Deputy Director of the Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate. In 1990, he was named to lead the Hubble Space Telescope Project and is widely recognized for the success of its first servicing mission, which corrected the telescope’s flawed optics.

Mr. Rothenberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Science and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from C. W. Post College of the Long Island University. In addition, in 1997 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and in 2000 an Honorary Doctorate of Science from C.W. Post. He was recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1990; in 1994 and 2000, he received NASA Distinguished Service Medals; and, in 1995 and 2001, he received NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals and the Senior Executive Service Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Awards. In 1997, he received the Presidential Rank Distinguished Executive Award. Mr. Rothenberg has also received the National Aviation Association Collier Trophy, the AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award, the National Space Club's Nelson P. Jackson Award, and was inducted into the Smithsonian's Aviation Week and Space Technology Hall of Fame.

Mr. Sable, President of Concord Solutions Ltd., a business consulting practice for high technology firms, is a member of the Board of Directors of Capitol Bancorp Ltd (NYSE) and serves as Vice Chairman and Chair Elect of the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona. He has served as a senior executive in the White House, DOD, and industry, including The Aerospace Corporation, where he was Senior Vice President Corporate Development, a member of the Executive Council, and their senior representative with Congress and the federal government. Before joining Aerospace, Ron served as Vice President Business Development for Douglas Military Aircraft Company following his service as the chief lobbyist for McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In the latter capacity, he enjoyed more success in obtaining congressional funding than any other major aerospace firm and personally led the government/industry cooperative effort to assure funding for the International Space Station. Before joining McDonnell Douglas, Mr. Sable was Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Affairs. In that role, he was the White House liaison with the U.S. Senate on defense, foreign policy, intelligence matters, space and arms control issues and banking. He served in the Air Force as a pilot (Colonel) and was an Outstanding Graduate of the Air War College. A graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College (B.S.), he has an M.S. from Southern Illinois University in International Relations and a Doctorate of Humane Letters (honorary) from Iowa Wesleyan. He is a graduate of the Harvard University Program in National & International Security, the Wharton School Executive Program in Finance & Accounting, the UCLA Anderson School Program in Mergers and Acquisitions, and the Capitol University School of Banking. A recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Iowa Wesleyan, Mr. Sable also is a recipient of the George Washington Honor Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, Meritorious Service Medal and the Air Medal (3 OLC), and is a certified Level III Homeland Security Expert. He serves as a Principal of the University of Arizona Eller School Executive in Residence program, and is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the Tucson International Airport Authority, and the DM 50; is a Life Member of the Air Force Association and the Air Commando Association; and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Club, Sun Community Bancorp, Sunrise Bank of Albuquerque, Yuma Community Bank, and Central Arizona Bank. A licensed commercial pilot, he has successfully led senior government and commercial negotiations in more than 30 countries. His views on subjects ranging from strategy to national security, the environment, debris in space, and the needs of our fellow man have been noted by the United Nations, in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Fast Company Magazine, The Arizona Star, the Tucson Citizen, and on NPR and Access Tucson. Ron and his wife, Patsy, live in Tucson, Arizona, and are active supporters of United Way, New Beginnings, CASA and The University of Arizona.

David W. Jourdan is the founder and president of Nauticos LLC, a company devoted to the exploration of the deep oceans. His career has been devoted to deep ocean technology, concentrating in the areas of remote sensing, underwater navigation, and renewable energy applications.

During his commission as a U.S. Navy submarine officer and as a physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, he became an expert in the exploitation of undersea environmental data, specializing in information collected by U.S. Navy ocean research submersibles and associated development programs.

As leader of Nauticos for over 20 years, he has continued to support scientific, archaeological, and military programs. These include the development of oceanographic database systems for the Navy, development and use of Kalman Filter navigation analysis software for submarine inertial navigators, and support of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) test programs. More recently, he has worked on projects to develop the use of cold Deep-Ocean Water for fresh water production, cold agriculture, and other renewable energy applications.

Key Nauticos ocean exploration projects include the successful search for the I-52, a WWII Japanese submarine found in the mid Atlantic at a depth of 17,000 feet, and the discovery of the DAKAR, an Israeli submarine found in the Mediterranean at a depth of 10,000 feet. While conducting the search for the missing Israeli submarine, Nauticos discovered a 2,300-year-old Greek trading vessel between the trading centers of Rhodes and Alexandria, nearly two miles beneath the surface of the Mediterranean. Another project of note was the discovery of the KAGA, a WWII Japanese aircraft carrier sunk at the Battle of Midway, found in the Pacific at a depth of 17,500 feet.

In 1999, Mr. Jourdan was honored as Maryland’s Small Business Person of the Year and awarded Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in Science and Technology. He is an International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club, and a member of the Sea Space Symposium. He has been active in many humanitarian programs, including Rotary International since 1994, and has traveled to Africa to support initiatives to combat AIDS and provide fresh water to rural communities.

Dr. Alan Stern is a planetary scientist, space program executive, aerospace consultant,
and author. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Vice President at the Southwest
Research Institute and has his own aerospace consulting practice. In 2011, he was
appointed to be the Director of the Florida Space Institute.

His numerous current and former consulting clients including Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Naveen Jain’s Moon Express Google Lunar X-Prize team, Ball Aerospace, the NASTAR Center, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, and the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Stern is also the CEO of two small businesses and serves on the board of directors of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. He is currently training to fly a series of suborbital space research missions with Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace in 2012-2013. Dr. Stern also serves as the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for the Moon Express Google Lunar X-Prize Team.

In 2007 and 2008, Dr. Stern served as NASA’s chief of all space and Earth science programs, directing a $4.4B organization with 93 separate flight missions and a program of over 3,000 research grants. During his NASA tenure, a record 10 major new flight projects were started and deep reforms of NASA’s scientific research and the education and public outreach programs were put in place. His tenure was notable for an emphasis on cost control in NASA flight missions that resulted in a 63% decrease in cost overruns. In 2007, he was named to the Time 100’s list of most influential people.

His career has taken him to numerous astronomical observatories, to the South Pole, and to the upper atmosphere aboard various high performance NASA aircraft including F/A-18 Hornets, F-104 Starfighters, KC-135 Zero-G, and WB-57 Canberras. He has been involved as a researcher in 24 suborbital, orbital, and planetary space missions, including 9 for which he was the mission principle investigator; and he has led the development of 8 scientific instruments for NASA space missions. In 1995, he was selected as a Space Shuttle mission specialist finalist, and in 1996 he was a candidate Space Shuttle Payload specialist. In 2010, he became a suborbital payload specialist trainee, and is expected to fly several space missions in 2012-2013.

Before receiving his doctorate from the University of Colorado in 1989, Dr. Stern completed twin master's degrees in aerospace engineering and atmospheric sciences (1980 and 1981), and then spent six years as an aerospace systems engineer, concentrating on spacecraft and payload systems at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Martin Marietta Aerospace, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. His two undergraduate degrees are in physics and astronomy from the University of Texas (1978 and 1980).

Dr. Stern has published over 200 technical papers and 40 popular articles. He has given over 300 technical talks and over 100 popular lectures and speeches about astronomy and the space program. He has written two books, The U.S. Space Program After Challenger (Franklin-Watts, 1987), and Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System (Wiley 1997, 2005). Additionally, he has served as editor on three technical volumes, and three collections of scientific popularizations: Our Worlds (Cambridge, 1998), Our Universe (Cambridge, 2000), and Worlds Beyond (Cambridge, 2003).

Dr. Stern is the Principal Investigator (PI) of NASA’s $720M New Horizon’s Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, the largest PI-led space mission ever launched by NASA. New Horizons launched in 2006. Dr. Stern is also the PI of two instruments aboard New Horizons, the Alice UV spectrometer and the Ralph Visible Imager/IR Spectrometer.

Dr. Stern has over 25 years of experience in space instrument development, with a strong concentration in ultraviolet technologies. He has been a Principal Investigator in NASA's UV sounding rocket program, and was the project scientist on a Shuttledeployable SPARTAN astronomical satellite. He was the PI of the advanced, miniaturized HIPPS Pluto breadboard camera/IR spectrometer/UV spectrometer payload.

Dr. Stern is also the PI of the Alice UV Spectrometer for the ESA/NASA Rosetta comet orbiter, launched in 2004, and the PI of the LAMP instrument on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, which launched in 2009. Dr. Stern's academic research has focused on studies of our solar system's Kuiper belt and Oort cloud, comets, the satellites of the outer planets, the Pluto system, and the search for evidence of solar systems around other stars. He has also worked on spacecraft rendezvous theory, terrestrial polar mesospheric clouds, galactic astrophysics, and studies of tenuous satellite atmospheres, including the atmosphere of the moon.

Dr. Stern is a fellow of the AAAS and the IAF, and a member of the AAS and the AGU; he was elected incoming chair of the Division of Planetary Sciences in 2006. He has been awarded the Von Braun Aerospace Achievement Award of the National Space Society, the 2007 University of Colorado George Norlin Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the 2009 St. Mark’s Preparatory School Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2007 he was named to the prestigious Time 100.

Dr. Stern's personal interests include running, hiking, camping, and writing. He is an instrument-rated commercial pilot and flight instructor, with both powered and sailplane ratings. He and his wife Carole have two daughters and a son; they make their home near Boulder, Colorado.