Dr. Diamandis is a visionary and pioneer in the commercial space arena, having created many of the leading commercial space companies that are opening the personal spaceflight industry today. Dr. Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight in 2004, and currently is presenting the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition and a variety of prizes in the exploration, energy/environment, health arenas and social arenas. Diamandis also is the founder of the International Space University, Zero Gravity Corporation, a commercial space company developing private, FAA-certified parabolic flights, Space Adventures, Inc., the company that brokers flights to the International Space Station, and is the co-founder of Singularity University.

Ramy Weitz is an accomplished aviator and successful entrepreneur.  He has logged extensive time in a variety of the world’s most advanced fighter jets including the F15.  Mr. Weitz has founded over a dozen companies in fields of media production, information distribution, interactive entertainment products and services, optical networking, team collaboration and services, community collaboration and flight simulation, including Pixel Animation (Acquired by CMG, 1997), Pixel Multimedia (Acquired by Gameplay PLC, 2001), RT-Set (Public company in Germany, 1998).

Len has 20 years experience as a United States Naval Aviator with a subspecialty in Operational Test and Evaluation. He is a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) / Adversary Pilot. He has flown 15 types of military aircraft and over 150 civilian types. He participated in 17 military Operational Test Programs and has conducted over 200 civilian test projects from gliders to ag-planes to jets. He is an FAA DER Flight Test Pilot. He has been an aerobatic competitor and was the Northwest Unlimited Champion. He has performed 17 first flights in type including the initial flight of the Armadillo Rocket powered racer.