Mr. Doll currently is an independent advisor and private investor. For more than 40 years, he has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer, communications, and internet industries. In the mid 1980s, Dixon cofounded the VC industry's first fund focused on telecom while at Accel Partners. Following his tenure at Accel, Dixon founded DCM, formerly (Doll Capital Management), where he built a top global VC firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Tokyo. DCM is widely regarded as the first Silicon Valley venture firm to successfully invest in China, Japan and the US. His diverse experience also includes strategy consulting, teaching, authoring two books, regular Bloomberg Television appearances, economic policy leadership, serving on public boards like DirecTV, non-profit fundraising, TED Talks and innovative philanthropic accomplishments.

In 2021, Mr. Doll received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Venture Capital from the U.S. National Venture Capital Association. He was named to the Forbes Midas List for four consecutive years and received the 2013 Special Achievement Award in VC from the International Business Forum. Dixon was elected to the Board of the National Venture Capital Association in 2005 serving on the Executive Committee and as Chairman in 2008/9. Under Dixon’s leadership, the NVCA developed a widely embraced set of recommendations (NVCA 4-Pillar Plan) to stimulate liquidity in the U.S. venture capital industry. This plan resulted in bipartisan Congressional support for new job creation legislation and simplification of the IPO process for young emerging companies. Known as the JOBS Act, President Obama signed it into law in 2012.

Dixon received his B.S. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University plus M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.

Mr. Friedman is a Senior Advisor and former Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a firm he joined in 2006. Prior to his current role in the Aerospace/Space/Defense Advisory business, he led business development for its Asset Management division and ran an Aerospace, Defense and Security long/short fund. He is active in venture capital, with a focus on global New Space and other high technology companies. He is currently, or has previously served, as a Board member, Advisory Director and Founder of several New Space Companies, both in the US and in Israel.

Mr. Friedman was previously a Senior Consultant at Accenture. He began his Wall Street career and spent more than a decade as a sell-side Aerospace and Defense Electronics analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Morgan Stanley (ultimately achieving #1 Institutional Investor status in both categories). He subsequently ran the 200-person North American Equity Research department at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Friedman then became a buy-side investor and was head of the New York Active Equity business at Morgan Stanley (where he was a member of the $400 billion Risk Management Committee of MSAM). He later became a Senior Portfolio Manager and CIO at John Levin and Company. Phil is also a retired Partner at Permanens Capital, an outsourced CIO and multi-family office asset management firm.

Mr. Friedman received a BA from Rutgers University in 1978 where he was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. He received his Masters of Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with highest honors. Phil passed his CPA exam in New York.

Ms. Armstrong is a veteran equity investor with over 30 years of professional investment management experience. Arden has built successful portfolios for a wide range of clients in institutional separate account management, mutual funds, and hedge funds. As a private investor, Arden has also invested in a wide range of private companies.

Ms. Armstrong spent 16 years at Miller Anderson & Sherrerd and Morgan Stanley (which acquired Miller Anderson in 1996). There, as a US equity portfolio manager and Managing Director, she headed the Small and Mid-Cap Growth Investment team, which managed institutional separate accounts and mutual funds totaling over $6 billion.

Subsequent to leaving Morgan Stanley in early 2002, Ms. Armstrong co-founded Redstone Investment Management, LP, a long short equity hedge fund that raised over $800 million dollars in small and mid-cap growth assets. At Redstone, she had portfolio management responsibility for selecting long and short investments in the Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, and Telecom sectors. As Managing Partner, Arden acquired deep knowledge of the investment management business along with a broad range of business management experience.

Ms. Armstrong graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982 with a BA in Economics. She first joined American Management Systems, then Evans Economics as a research analyst. In 1986 she received her MBA from The Wharton School. Arden is a holder of the CFA designation.

Mr. O’Connell is Founder and CEO of Space Economy Rising, LLC., a firm that supports the economic growth of the space industry. His career spans more than 35 years of experience in government, research organizations and industry, including over 25 years of work on space commercialization. From 2018 to 2020, he served as a space industry advocate within the Executive Branch as Director of the Office of Space Commerce. Previously, Mr. O’Connell was Chair of NOAA’s federal advisory committee on remote sensing and served as senior consultant to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as an independent advisor to the Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. He is also an expert on national security and intelligence matters, with previous positions in the Department of Defense, Department of State, National Security Council and the Office of the Vice President.

Mr. Davidson is founder and Managing Partner of Near Earth LLC, an investment bank focused on the space industry and providing M&A, strategic and financial advisory services and equity private placements. Formerly, Hoyt was a Managing Director at CSFB and DLJ where he co-founded Wall Street’s first dedicated coverage group for the commercial satellite industry. While there, he participated in financings totaling over $15 billion.

Mr. Davidson serves on the Board of XO Markets Holdings, the parent of NanoRacks, and on the Advisory Board of Lynk Global. In addition, he is on the Board of the Space Foundation and its Finance Committee and the Board of the National Space Society and its Policy and Investment Committees. Before his Wall Street career, Hoyt was a Senior Research Engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. He received his B.S. in Physics from MIT and won the Henry B. duPont III Scholarship for academic excellence while earning an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School.