Scott Tibbitts

Managing Director
SpaceDev Inc.

SpaceDev Inc is an aerospace company that provides innovative microsatellites, hybrid propulsion and spacecraft mechanisms to the global aerospace industry. Mr. Tibbitts was the founder and CEO of Starsys Research Corporation in Boulder Colorado, a company created to bring a promising thermal actuator technology to the spacecraft industry, and now a world-class supplier of mechanical systems and actuators for spacecraft, with a track record of 2500 mechanisms flown on more than 250 spacecraft with 100% success. In 2006, Starsys Research was acquired by SpaceDev Inc., a Poway, California aerospace company that is a world-leader in the development of hybrid propulsion and micro-satellites. Mr. Tibbitts assumed the role of Managing Director of SpaceDev on completion of the merger. Mr. Tibbitts is also the Executive Director of eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship; a not-for-profit partnership of the University of Colorado and SpaceDev, chartered with accelerating the creation of entrepreneurial space companies and the workforce that supports them.