Jim Stuart - Board of Directors

Dr. James R. Stuart is the President of IOSTAR Corp. (developing a commercial nuclear-powered space tug ( www.iostarcorp.com) and an independent, internationally recognized consultant specializing in the development of new technologies, advanced systems and commercial businesses. He has consulted to over 95 companies in the past 25 years. He is currently a Board Director of 6 entrepreneurial, high-technology companies involved with wireless telecommunications, digital rights management, DVD’s, RFID’s, satellite communications and tourist launchers. He has been a Director on the Boards of 28 companies and a member of the Advisory Boards of 13 companies during the past 25 years. He has been an expert witness in 4 major space business litigations.

Dr. Stuart has held positions as the CEO of SkyVault Secure Digital Distribution, Inc. in Carmel, CA, the CEO and President of Kitcomm Satellite Communications Ltd. in Hamilton, Bermuda, the Vice President and Chief Architect of Teledesic Corp. in Bellevue, WA, and the Chief Scientist and the Chief Engineer at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, CO. He was previously the founding Chief Engineer of Orbital Sciences Corporation (ORB: NYSE), the Assistant Laboratory Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), and the development and flight Project Manager at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of both the Solar Mesosphere Explorer Mission (launched 1981) and the Mars Observer Mission (launched 1992).

Dr. Stuart was a member of three graduate engineering faculties of the University of Colorado at Boulder for 19 years, in the Electrical Engineering, the Telecommunications and the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Departments. He has been a regular lecturer at various universities, including the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the Naval Postgraduate School. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering (1979), M.S. in Operations Research (1977), and M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1974) from the University of Southern California, and his B.S. in Physics (1968) from the University of Washington.

Dr. Stuart has received numerous professional awards, including NASA's Exceptional Service Medal for his project management of JPL’s Solar Mesosphere Explorer Project. He has been listed in Via Satellite's "Top 100 Executives in the Satellite Communications Industry". Dr. Stuart holds 9 patents in satellite, wireless communications and network designs (over 30 others pending). He was the author of a graduate engineering, two-volume text entitled Satellite Communication Systems, co-author of Telecommunications: An Interdisciplinary Text, and has published over 150 professional papers.