Lynn Martin is President of NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest stock market.

Martin is the 68th President of the New York Stock Exchange and the second woman to lead the exchange in more than 230-year history. The NYSE, the premier venue for capital raising, is the listing home to the world’s most influential and innovative companies.

In addition to the exchange, NYSE Group includes four fully electronic equity markets, including NYSE Arca, the industry leader in ETFs, and two options exchanges.

Martin is also Chair of Fixed Income & Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), the parent of NYSE Group. Most recently, she was President of that business, responsible for ICE Bonds execution venues, securities pricing and analytics, reference data, indices, desktop solutions, consolidated feeds and connectivity services that cover all major asset classes.

She previously served as President of ICE Data Services, COO of ICE Clear U.S., and in a number of leadership roles including CEO of NYSE Liffe U.S. and CEO of New York Portfolio Clearing. Martin began her career at IBM in its Global Services organization.

Martin holds a BS in Computer Science from Manhattan College and an MA in Statistics from Columbia University. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Partnership for New York City, the Inner-City Scholarship Fund and the New York State Emerging Technology Advisory Board. Martin also serves on the Manhattan College Board of Trustees.

Anousheh Ansari is the CEO of XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. The first female private space explorer and first Muslim woman in space, she is a global presence in future-positive tech markets and a resonant voice for women within STEM, business, and the entrepreneurial industries.

Ansari and her family sponsored XPRIZE’s first venture in 1994: the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE that ignited a new era for commercial spaceflight. She began serving on its Board of Directors and became CEO of XPRIZE in 2018, leading and scaling the foundation to its highest impact period in its history. To date, XPRIZE has launched 30 prizes offering over $500 million in prize purses, hosting over 35,000 innovators from around the world to participate in its competitions.

Morgan Brennan is co-anchor of CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime” (M-F, 4PM-5PM ET), which broadcasts live from CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Previously, she was co-anchor of the 10AM ET hour on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” and co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” She joined the network in December 2013 as a general assignment reporter based at CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and continues to cover a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, and defense and space. She is also host of the CNBC podcast, Manifest Space.

Prior to joining CNBC, Brennan was a staff writer and reporter for Forbes Media where she reported for Forbes Magazine, ForbesLife Magazine and Forbes.com, most recently covering real estate. She began her career at Forbes in 2009, holding several positions including anchor/reporter and producer for the Forbes Video Network, covering a wide range of business and finance topics.

Previously, Brennan was a regular guest on a variety of networks discussing business and economic stories and also interned at Newsweek International, where she was a fact-checker and contributing writer.

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion-dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

Brennan is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She graduated summa cum laude from New York University, majoring in Social Science with a double concentration in Anthropology and Media Studies.

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Described by TechCrunch as “among the best-positioned people on either the investment or the operator side to weigh in on the current and future state of the space startup industry,” Chad Anderson is the founder and managing partner of Space Capital, where he has been pioneering investment in the space economy for over a decade. He is also author of The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of our Lifetime, published by Wiley.

Regularly featured in the media as an expert, Anderson has appeared in outlets including CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Financial Times. In addition to his work at Space Capital, Anderson serves on boards including that of the Satellite Applications Catapult, which supports the United Kingdom’s national strategy to grow its space sector. Anderson has served as director of the board of the Explorers Club, a nonprofit that promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space. He was also a member of the User Advisory Committee for the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory.

Before founding Space Capital, Anderson led a successful career at JPMorgan Chase, where he managed a $50-billion real estate portfolio through the Great Recession. He has an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation from the University of Oxford.

Morgan Brennan is co-anchor of CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime” (M-F, 4PM-5PM ET), which broadcasts live from CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Previously, she was co-anchor of the 10AM ET hour on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” and co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” She joined the network in December 2013 as a general assignment reporter based at CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and continues to cover a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, and defense and space. She is also host of the CNBC podcast, Manifest Space.

Prior to joining CNBC, Brennan was a staff writer and reporter for Forbes Media where she reported for Forbes Magazine, ForbesLife Magazine and Forbes.com, most recently covering real estate. She began her career at Forbes in 2009, holding several positions including anchor/reporter and producer for the Forbes Video Network, covering a wide range of business and finance topics.

Previously, Brennan was a regular guest on a variety of networks discussing business and economic stories and also interned at Newsweek International, where she was a fact-checker and contributing writer.

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion-dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

Brennan is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She graduated summa cum laude from New York University, majoring in Social Science with a double concentration in Anthropology and Media Studies.

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Kevin O’Connell is a recognized expert on space commerce, the global space economy, international intelligence and U.S. national security matters. For almost four decades, he has focused on space commercialization and technological competitiveness and how to advance them in global markets. He has also focused on how these innovations impact U.S. and allied national security.

His U.S. government assignments include the Department of Commerce (SES), The Department of Defense, The Department of State, The National Security Council, The Office of the Vice President, and The Office of the Director of Central Intelligence. Within the private sector, Mr. O’Connell was a senior research analyst at RAND and was the first Director of RAND’s Intelligence Policy Center. In 2007, he founded Innovative Analytics and Training, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in assessing high-tech market areas including geospatial markets, cloud computing, and cyber analytics.

Mr. O’Connell’s most recent role was Director of the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) within the U.S. Department of Commerce. He was the principal architect of outreach to U.S. private space companies to facilitate innovation and encourage increased market growth and viability. He focused on the growing role of the private sector in space, encouraged new space partnerships, worked to ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. commercial space industry, and advanced American leadership in space safety and sustainability. Mr. O’Connell testified before Congress on space policy and regulatory issues, American space competitiveness, and the growth of space commerce. He was awarded the Vice President’s Dedicated Service Award for his support to the National Space Council.

Mr. O’Connell also expanded international outreach on space commerce issues with a wide range of U.S. allies and partners, especially to compare notes on regulation, encourage new partnerships and advance space safety and sustainability. His overseas space engagements included participation in the U.S.-Japan Comprehensive Space Dialogue, as part of a Space Delegation to Luxembourg, and including high-level discussions with the EU, India, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Commonwealth partners.

Mr. O’Connell is a recognized expert on the policy, security, and commercial aspects of satellite remote sensing technologies and markets. He served as the Executive Secretary of the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) in 2000 and later as an advisor to the Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He was a long-standing member of NOAA’s federal advisory committee, ACCRES, including as Chair between 2012 and 2016.

Mr. O’Connell has been a regular author on space commerce issues. He contributed the foreword to "Space Policies for the New Space Age: Competing on the Final Economic Frontier,” by Bruce Cahan and Mir Sadat (NewSpace New Mexico, December 2020). He co-authored Commercial Observation Satellites: at the Leading Edge of Global Transparency (ASPRS/RAND, 2000). He taught graduate courses in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the RAND Graduate School for many years and has lectured at academic and research organizations around the world.

Rob Meyerson is CEO and co-founder of Interlune, a company committed to sustainable and responsible harvesting of natural resources from space to benefit humanity.

Prior to Interlune, Rob ran Delalune Space, a consultancy focused on the aerospace, mobility, technology, and investment sectors. Rob also served as president of Blue Origin for 15 years, where he scaled the company from 10 employees to more than 1,500, oversaw the development of six new facilities, signed critical customers, and managed several key programs, including the development and production of the New Shepard reusable launcher. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Manager at Kistler Aerospace and an aerodynamicist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Rob is recognized throughout the industry for his support and mentorship as an angel investor, advisor, or director for companies including Hermeus, Axiom Space, Hadrian, ABL Space, Sceye, Starfish Space, and others.

Rob earned a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Houston. He is an AIAA Fellow, a Trustee of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and a member of the University of Michigan College of Engineering Leadership Advisory Board. For accomplishments at Blue Origin, Rob and his team were awarded the Robert J. Collier trophy from the National Aeronautic Association in 2016. Rob was awarded the Space Flight Award by the American Astronautical Society in 2017.

Mr. Cyrus has led his company to historic accomplishments in the field of space resources, advanced spacecraft, and robotics, including the first ever sale of lunar resources to NASA and assisting with the production of oxygen on Mars. As a technical leader, he led development of the industry-leading MAPP rover, a Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform that will be utilized on four upcoming missions to the Moon to provide lunar surface mobility. Currently, Mr. Cyrus is leading his company and a world-class team including General Motors to develop a human-rated rover for NASA’s Artemis campaign. Mr. Cyrus holds M.S. Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Space Resources from Colorado School of Mines, and a B.S. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Barbara Belvisi is an entrepreneur passionate about space, hardware, biology and AI. She started her career as an investor, from Private Equity to Venture Capital. She founded her own asset management firm at 27 to invest in deeptech startups and then cofounded Hardware Club at 29, a VC fund dedicated to hardware and robotics companies. Meanwhile, she participated in the launch of several innovation programs like Hello Tomorrow the largest deeptech event in Europe. At 33, she left her investor career and started learning engineering and architecture. Drove by her childhood passion for nature and space, she spent a year with NASA engineers prior to launching Interstellar Lab.

Interstellar Lab’s mission is to preserve life on Earth and expand it to Space. To do so, it develops, manufactures and operates a biofarming platform combining hardware, AI and bioscience on Earth and in space. On Earth, they provide an integrated solution to cosmetics and F&B companies for clean production of plant-based ingredients. In space, they provide food production and plant research capabilities to space stations. As a first step towards their multi-planetary vision, NASA has selected their technology for food production in a long-manned mission. Interstellar Lab has also launched a lunar mission in partnership with Antoine de Saint Exupéry Youth Foundation to grow roses on the moon.

Barbara is Top 10 Women in Tech in France, Top 100 Forbes, Best Innovator 2022, Choiseul 100, BOLD Award 2023.

As Founding Partner at Seven Seven Six, Katelin actively invests across various sectors, oversees all firm and portfolio operations, and leads investor relations. Katelin has a unique perspective on the intersection of people and technology. She brings over 15 years of executive and operating experience to the world of venture, having spent significant time at some of this generation’s most influential technology companies like Pixar Animation Studios, Klout, and Reddit. Leveraging her expertise in HR, operations, and culture building, Katelin is focused on driving outsized returns with care. As an investor, she is passionate about funding and coaching the people-first companies that will shape the future of work, life, sustainability, and the delicate balance that enables us to thrive. Investments include Intro, Interlune, Doodles, Mast Reforestation, Los Angeles Golf Club, and The Grand.

Justus Kilian is a Partner at Space Capital, a seed-stage venture capital fund investing in space-based infrastructure and their applications. He is active on multiple portfolio company boards and manages the firm’s recruiting platform, Space Talent. Before his current roles, Justus worked at Acumen, a $250M early-stage venture firm investing across East Africa and South Asia where he deployed capital and delivered targeted support to 50 companies through turnaround, growth, and exit. He also worked at Merrill Lynch where he specialized in private market investments and helped manage $6B in assets. Justus received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of business, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and is passionate about STEM education and economic empowerment, having volunteered at FIRST Robotics, Hostelling International, and multiple community centers.

General John W. “Jay” Raymond served as the first Chief of Space Operations for the United States Space Force from 2019 to 2022 and was responsible for leading its establishment. During his tenure, Gen. Raymond oversaw the standup of all new Space Force organizations, transfer of personnel from other military branches, consolidation of space units from other services, setting of the services culture, and designing of its force structure. Prior to his role as Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Raymond commanded at squadron, group, wing, numbered air force, Major Command and Combatant Command levels. He's currently a Senior Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management and holds board positions at Impulse Space and Axiom Space.

Eric Romo is President and Chief Operating Officer of Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller. Beginning his career as one of the first propulsion engineering hires at SpaceX, he subsequently founded companies in the solar energy and virtual reality industries and spent four years as a Director at Facebook Reality Labs. Eric has a master's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA, both from Stanford University.

Andy Lapsa is the co-founder and CEO of Stoke Space Technologies, a company focused on sustainably scaling the space economy. He began his career at Blue Origin, developing the BE-4 engine before leading the BE-3 and BE-3U engine programs. Seeking faster progress toward fully reusable launch systems, Lapsa co-founded Stoke in 2019 with Tom Feldman.

Stoke is developing Nova, the world’s most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rocket, to provide low-cost, on-demand access to and from space. It has made significant strides toward this end, including the successful test firing of its full-flow, stage-combustion rocket engine. Last year, Stoke successfully conducted a vertical takeoff and landing test flight of its fully reusable second stage, demonstrating its novel hydrogen/oxygen engine, heat shield, and thrust vector control system.

Lapsa holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.

As Chief Revenue Officer at Firefly Aerospace, Brett Alexander oversees all customer relationships, sets the sales strategy, and leads the business development team.

With more than 30 years of military, civil, and commercial experience in the aerospace industry, Brett is focused on accelerating growth and fostering new and existing customers across Firefly’s launch, lunar, and on-orbit services.

Prior to joining Firefly, Brett led Blue Origin’s government sales across civil and national security space sectors for more than 10 years. Previously, Brett served in leadership roles at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, as well as senior advisor roles on the NASA Advisory Council and the Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee.

Brett's former experience also includes senior policy analyst roles at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, the Aerospace Corporation, and ANSER Corporation, as well as roles at Transformational Space Corporation and the X PRIZE Foundation.

Eric Romo is President and Chief Operating Officer of Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller. Beginning his career as one of the first propulsion engineering hires at SpaceX, he subsequently founded companies in the solar energy and virtual reality industries and spent four years as a Director at Facebook Reality Labs. Eric has a master's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA, both from Stanford University.

Eric Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering everything from astronomy to private space to wonky NASA policy. He is also the author of two bestselling books: Liftoff, about the rise of SpaceX; and Reentry, on the development of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft.

Eric has an astronomy degree from the University of Texas and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. He previously worked as a science journalist at the Houston Chronicle for 17 years, where the paper was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2009 for his coverage of Hurricane Ike. A certified meteorologist, Eric founded Space City Weather and The Eyewall, and lives in Houston.

Tom is the CEO of Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company. Prior to Sierra Space, Tom was the Chairman, CEO and President of Aerion Corporation, a company developing supersonic civil aviation.

Tom was the President of Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems sector, an $11 billion global advanced technology business with 23,000 incredibly talented team members. The team members were pioneers in space-based observatories, satellites, fully autonomous intelligent systems, combat aircraft, high powered lasers, and microelectronics.

Prior to becoming the President of Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems sector, Tom was the President of their Technical Services sector, a recognized leader in integrated logistics and modernization, defense and government services and training solutions, with more than 19,500 employees. Tom led businesses at more than 300 locations in all 50 states and 29 countries, supporting a diverse customer base, including the U.S. departments of Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, State and the Interior as well as NASA. Tom retired from Northrop Grumman in 2017 after 31 distinguished years of service.

Tom is a successful operating executive with unquestionable integrity, broad industry experience, and proven strategic, financial, risk management, and technical skills. Tom is a visionary and inspiring leader, with relentless discipline and long-term focus. Tom is genuinely respected and trusted by his customers, employees, industry peers, and investors. He has a very thoughtful, creative, and collaborative style. Tom has a comprehensive understanding of the government regulatory and compliance environment.

Tom has served on the board of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the board of governors for the USO, the board of trustees for the Florida Institute of Technology, Purdue University’s School of Astronautics and Aeronautics, and Local Motors. Tom currently serves on the board of councilors for USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering.

Tom is the recipient of the 2016 Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. The Engineering Management Award was founded in 1978 to recognize industry leaders who have made lasting contributions to science and engineering through exemplary professional accomplishments and contributions to the field of engineering management. In 2024, Tom was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® by Ernst & Young in recognition of his ability to create longterm value through entrepreneurial spirit.

Tom earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He has completed numerous advanced management programs including MIT’s Corporate Strategy, Northwestern’s Value Creation through M&A, Caltech’s Management of Technology and Innovation, Caltech’s Strategic Marketing of Technology Products, UCLA’s Executive Marketing, and Defense Acquisition University’s Advanced Program Management course.

Michael Sheetz is CNBC’s award-winning Space Reporter. He joined the world’s leader in business news nearly a decade ago and has been covering the space industry since 2017. He contributes across both CNBC and NBCUniversal’s global content offerings, from digital reporting to television programming, and is the author of the weekly newsletter CNBC’s Investing in Space

Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, thought leader, commercial astronaut and philanthropist. A vanguard in the NewSpace sector, Taylor has been cited by Harvard University, SpaceNews, the BBC, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. He is also widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.

As the Chairman and CEO of Voyager Space, Dylan Taylor’s influence drives much of the innovation and advancement of the space industry. However, his influence doesn’t end there. His philanthropic impact in the industry began as the founder of the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Dylan is also the Co-Founding Patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program. He is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.

Dylan’s technical background and passion for the space industry makes him not only one of the leading experts, but also a unique figure within the industry due to his own personal spaceflight experience. On December 11th, 2021, Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s New Shepard Mission 19. Dylan consequently earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA.

Dylan’s passion has also primed him as a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017 he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

As a thought leader and futurist, Taylor has written several widely read pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, SpaceNews, Newsweek, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.

As a global business leader Dylan has been Fortune 1000 executive in several industries including advanced electronics, finance and real estate serving in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies including Prudential plc, Honeywell, UMB Bank, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. He has had P&L responsibility in excess of $2B with 15,000+ employees in 60+ countries.

For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, the World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and later named him as a full member of the Forum and a Governor of the Space cohort. In addition, Dylan is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and in 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen.

Dylan Taylor earned his MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. In 2013, he attended the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.

Full bio available at www.dylantaylor.org.