Derek Webber is the former Head of Procurement at the international satellite mobile communications operator, Inmarsat, where he was responsible for acquiring around $2 billion of satellites and launch vehicles. He is a former satellite and launch vehicle design engineer, and was Managing Director for the European operation of Tachyon, a U.S.-based satellite broadband provider. He is Founder of Spaceport Associates, where for over a decade he has been a strong advocate for space tourism, specializing in developing business cases and regulatory requirements, and demonstrating how commercial human spaceflight can contribute to space exploration development. He is author of the book “The Wright Stuff: the Century of Effort Behind your Ticket to Space”, providing a parallel history of aviation and rocketry, and has served as a docent at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He has joint U.S./U.K. nationality and holds a BS in Physics/Math, as well as postgraduate qualifications in Management, Space Studies, and Accounting and Finance.