Jim Buenrostro
Jim Buenrostro is a member of the Technology Ranch team for the NASA Lunar Regolith Challenge held at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. When not working on the team's robot, Jim works for Pacific Gas & Electric.

Ken Davidian
Ken Davidian is now the NASA ESMD (Exploration Systems Mission Directorate) Commercial Development Policy Lead. Ken Davidian is also now a NASA employee and the former Program Manager for Centennial Challenges at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Within ESMD, Mr. Davidian is charged with conducting and promoting commercialization efforts related to the Vision for Space Exploration and the Global Exploration Strategy. Mr. Davidian is also the principal driver of Centennial Challenges, NASA’s prize program modeled on past and ongoing prize competitions. Centennial Challenges was established to stimulate technology developments from private industry, universities, and individual innovators that support of the Vision for Space Exploration and ongoing NASA programs. Prior to his current position, Mr. Davidian served as Director of Operations for the X PRIZE Foundation. Responsibilities in this position included managing the registration process, team information and relations, and many aspects of flight attempt validation, judging, and event coordination. In addition to his prize-related work experience, Mr. Davidian has worked for Paragon Space Development Corp. as Program Manager and also as Director of Operations consulting to Cargo Lifter Development. Finally, Mr. Davidian spent the first 18 years of his career working for NASA Glenn Research Center in the area of analytical and experimental research on the performance of liquid rocket engines. For a three-year period, NASA Glenn loaned Mr. Davidian to work at the International Space University as the Assistant Director of Operations for the 1997-1999 Summer Session Programs. Mr. Davidian is an alumnus of the International Space University, earned a B.S. degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio State University and a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Fluid and Thermal Sciences) from Case Western Reserve University.

Janice Dunn
Janice Dunn is currently employed as Deputy Director by the California Space Authority, Inc. (CSA), a non-profit corporation founded to promote and advocate the continuing development and growth of California's Space Enterprise community. She serves as Director of Policy for the Aerospace States Association, is a Steering Group member for the Space Exploration Alliance, and is CSA's representative to the Coalition for Space Exploration. Ms. Dunn was graduated with honors from California State University San Diego in 1977 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics. She began her career by first serving as a newspaper reporter for The Vista Press and then serving as the producer of a news talk show on KSDO radio station in San Diego. Ms. Dunn subsequently entered law school and was graduated from the University of San Diego. She began her legal career as a law clerk with NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and was subsequently hired as an attorney at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. As a NASA attorney, Ms. Dunn focused upon government contract issues related to launch vehicles and satellite services. Ms. Dunn departed NASA in order to serve as a civilian attorney for the Air Force at Space and Missile Center in Los Angeles, California. While there, she focused upon labor and government contract issues, including the Air Force's procurement of medium launch vehicle services and implementation of the Commercial Space Launch Act which included drafting a model agreement for private sector use of Air Force launch property and services. Ms. Dunn subsequently served the Air Force as a civilian attorney assigned to the Office of the General Counsel in the Pentagon. In that capacity, she focused upon legal issues pertaining to the procurement of space systems. She also represented the Air Force in negotiations with Congress that led to the Commercial Space Launch Act Amendments of 1988. Ms. Dunn next served in the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, as counsel to the Space Subcommittee. In that capacity, she provided legal counsel to members of Congress and committee staff on issues related to NASA programs, including expendable launch vehicles, commercial space, and the International Space Station. Ms. Dunn departed Congress in order to represent private sector clients in litigation related to federal government contracts. She later represented private sector clients and state government organizations in negotiations with Congress and the federal executive branch on funding and policy issues. In her capacity as General Counsel, Ms. Dunn provides legal advice to the Executive Director and the Board of Directors. In her capacity as Director of Federal Government Relations, she educates federal policymakers on strategic space issues. Ms. Dunn is a runner, an avid scuba diver, and a gardener.

Matt Everingham
Matt Everingham is a graduate of University of California San Diego, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering. During his time at UCSD, Matt participated in several student design projects. As a member of UCSD's American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design Build Fly team, he contributed to the design, analysis, fabrication and integration of composite structures for an Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV). This project culminated in an international competition held in Maryland. As a senior, Matt participated in a design study of an extremely high maneuverability Uncrewed Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) concept, a project mentored by The Boeing Company. After serving as an intern in the California Space Authority's Sacramento office, where he contributed to public and policymaker awareness of space enterprise activities, Matt is currently a member of CSA's corporate team serving as Manager of Engineering Programs. In this capacity he is responsible for managing the Regolith Excavation Challenge, MoonROx Challenge, New Space Professionals Working Group, and several projects under the WIRED initiative. Matt is responsible for the project management and technical management of the Regolith Excavation Challenge and Moon Regolith Oxygen (MoonROx) Challenge; prize competitions being executed under the NASA Centennial Challenges Program. These challenges are intended to accelerate technology development in the area of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for lunar missions and to develop a community around lunar ISRU, providing an avenue by which members of the public can contribute to the advancement of ISRU technologies. As the staff liaison to the New Space Professionals Working Group, Matt is engaged with the issues raised by the recruiting, integration, and retention of new space professionals into the space enterprise workforce. The working group seeks to give CSA members and other space community stakeholders insight into the perspectives of new space professionals and the various challenges resulting from the unique history of space enterprise

Andrea Seastrand
The Honorable Andrea Seastrand serves as Executive Director of the California Space Authority (CSA), a statewide non-profit corporation. She brings extensive knowledge of both the federal and state legislative processes as well as the vision and drive to ensure California's success as a leader in the highly competitive, international enterprise space marketplace. Mrs. Seastrand was a leader in the inception of The California Space and Technology Alliance (CSTA), serving as its first and only Executive Director from February 1997 until April 2001. Through her visionary leadership, CSTA grew into the current CSA, an organization focused on all three domains of California's diverse space enterprise community: commercial, civil and national security. By providing vision, voice and edge for California's space enterprise, CSA has been designated by the State of California as California's official spaceport authority since April 2001. Recognizing the value of collaborative strategic visioning, in 1998 Mrs. Seastrand oversaw the development of the country's first, true, statewide, strategic space enterprise plan. That plan was updated in 2004 with the California Space Enterprise Strategic Plan and CSA is playing a major role in its implementation. As a former US Congresswoman, Mrs. Seastrand led space support efforts at the federal level with the introduction of the National Spaceport Act of 1995. While in Congress, she served on the Committee on Science and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Mrs. Seastrand served as a Member of the California State Assembly from 1990 to 1994. She successfully authored legislation that created the California Spaceport Authority, created sales tax exemptions on launches, and created CORTA - a central coast effort to support space and technology efforts that ultimately evolved into today's CSA. With experience in the 1995 Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) process, Mrs. Seastrand has focused CSA on the importance of protecting military installations that host key space assets in California. She has been very vocal throughout the state concerning BRAC preparedness and has worked with local communities and the State to develop a strong, unified voice. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Mrs. Seastrand in 2004 to serve as one of 20 members on the Governor's statewide Council on Base Support and Retention. The Council worked closely with the Governor's Office of Military and Aerospace Support on Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) strategy, recommending actions to optimize the retention and realignment of military installations, missions and commands in California. The final votes of the Base Closure Commission confirmed the merits of the council's strategy and the value of the collaborative efforts of the state. In mid-summer 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger created an "A Team" devoted to attraction of the shuttle follow-on program, called the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), to the State of California. CSA, under the leadership of Seastrand, was selected to serve as the lead partner of the "A Team" and is now engaged with the CEV industry teams. The effort is being led within State government by Secretary Sunne McPeak, Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, and Secretary Victoria Bradshaw, Labor and Workforce Development Agency. In recognition of the value of CSA's role, Congress encouraged CSA to establish a conference focusing on highlighting California's international leadership as a space faring state. In response, CSA built on its first annual 2004 SpotBeam Awards Dinner with a two-day conference and awards dinner focused on highlighting the state's space assets through the innovation, infrastructure, and intellectual capital of the space enterprise community. The 2005 Transforming Space Conference and SpotBeam Awards Dinner took place December 1 and 2 in Los Angeles. Early in 2006, under Mrs. Seastrand's direction, CSA was successful in developing a competitive and cutting edge proposal in response to the Department of Labor (DoL) Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Initiative. The WIRED Initiative is a major component of President George Bush's competitiveness agenda, unveiled during the 2006 State of the Union Address. The Initiative selection process began at the statewide level of competition with nationwide governors selecting proposals to carry forward to the DoL. CSA's proposal was selected by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and went on to become one of thirteen $15M winners at the national level. CSA's project is to lead a 13 county economic region comprising the "California Innovation Corridor" in a 68 member partnership effort. That effort consists of increasing entrepreneurship, supporting manufacturing value chain and supplier competitiveness, and fostering accelerated development of an innovation-oriented technical workforce. Mrs. Seastrand is presently an alternate California delegate to the Aerospace States Association (ASA) and a member in Women In Aerospace (WIA), the Air Force Association (AFA), and the Navy League. She recently was invited by Gen. T. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, to join his newly formed Civic Leaders Group. Mrs. Seastrand was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from DePaul University. She raised two children on California's Central Coast with her late husband, Eric Seastrand, who was a Member of the California State Assembly from 1982 through 1990. Mrs. Seastrand currently resides in Grover Beach, California.