Brad Blair is a geologist, mining engineer and mineral economist.  In almost 30 years of commercial mining and space-resource-related work, he has participated in several startup companies such as NewSpace Analytics, created the first commercial lunar resource business model for the NASA Exploration Team in 2002, developed models for commercial lunar mining for Raytheon and Bechtel, served as a consultant for the Canadian Space Agency to develop a plan for underground lunar mining, served as a Guest Lecturer on lunar and asteroid mining at Singularity University and has served on the Board of Directors for the National Space Society.  He is a trained and experienced cost estimator using the NASA and Air Force Cost Model (NAFCOM) and has competed in two NASA Centennial Challenges.  Blair is also the lead author of a book about Space Mineral Resources and has recently helped design a boulder grabbing and retrieval concept and prototype for the NASA Asteroid Return Mission (ARM) program.