Gregg has been a futurist and disrupter, a serial entrepreneur, and a coach to startups, a professor of Space entrepreneurship, a governance consultant to MNCs and family businesses, and most importantly, a developer and investor in young leaders.
Many of his students and mentees are now leading global firms from McKinsey to Microsoft to Huawei. Having worked with, personally coached and mentored high-flyers with global players such as Aon, American Express, Citibank, IBM, and PWC, he is now retired and teaching corporate governance, innovation, and entrepreneurship at various universities. He is proud to say that a few of his hundred-plus mentees are now partners at leading consulting firms, global heads at MNCs, and founders of startups. They have been co-travellers on this journey of discovery; and many are now changing the world for the better.
Gregg is currently the founding Chairman of the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy, or OASA, and an advisor to a dozen think tanks and universities. Gregg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, UCLA, Warwick, HKU and Hawaii.
Blaine CURCIO is one of the world's leading analysts on the Chinese space industry, as well as the global satellite communications industry. Based in Hong Kong, Blaine works directly with Chinese and western commercial space companies to identify opportunities, explore collaboration, and improve understanding of space commercialization across both sides of the US/ China divide.
Blaine is Founder at Orbital Gateway Consulting, Affiliate Senior Consultant at Euroconsult, and is actively involved in industry non-profit organizations, news publications, and APAC-focused events.
Analyst and investor with 10 years of experience in equity research, asset management and venture capital delivering quality investment research, idea generation, product development, and execution for positive alpha returns. Research coverage started from consumer and automobiles before pivoting to consumer-tech, autonomous driving, superapp/ internet platforms, Web3.0, and the metaverse in the Asia-Pacific region.