Dr. Lee is a planetary scientist at Mars Institute, SETI Institute, and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. His research is on Mars, its moons, and future human missions to the Red Planet. He works in Mars-like environments on Earth.

Nicola Sarzi-Amade, Ph.D. is a Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon and an entrepreneur. He was vice president of two aerospace companies in the Los Angeles area and chair of the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas section. He holds a Ph.D. in Astronautics from USC.

Jason Klassi is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer and author of the award-winning “Everyday Space Traveler” with a foreword by moonwalker Buzz Aldrin.  NASA, the International Astronautical Federation and notable journals around the world have published Jason’s contributions to space exploration.

Larry Kawano is consultant to Astrocamp, a residential science camp. He coordinated the camp’s efforts to align its programs with science standards and brought in researchers to give presentations to Astrocamp’s instructors. Larry had an earlier career as a cosmologist.

Dr. Jun Isobe, presently an engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, is active in the techology startup landscape. His interests in space exploration got him involved in Red Planet Ventures in 2005.

Jim Heimler is a co-founder of RPV. He has been an award-winning architect for 32 years, providing design, production, and project management services on over 2,500 projects to a wide variety of clients.