​Mr. Karl Baker (MSME) has more than 35 years of experience in the satellite industry. He has extensive experience leading multi-organizational and interdisciplinary teams to achieve focused, value-added results. He founded Summit Space Corporation in 2014. Karl has direct experience leading the technical due diligence for three of the world’s largest commercial satellite constellation programs. He has designed and built flight hardware for over 25 satellite programs. He led over 60 commercial satellite failure investigations and supported, as an expert witness, four of the industry’s largest litigation and bankruptcy cases.
As the President of Summit Space Corporation, Karl works closely with the satellite finance community leading the industry’s largest due diligence assessments. He leads satellite acquisitions for operators. He provides large investment banks with management/monitoring assistance. Karl also supports law firms on space related matters.

Pier Francesco Lion Stoppato (PhD/MBA) has over 25 years of experience in space science, business, technology and project management with a track record of achievements in the communications field. He has worked on both satellite technical and market advisor assignments. He is one of the most experienced professionals worldwide for satellite finance transactions. Piero has deep experience as the lead technical advisor for over a dozen successful satellite finance programs. Other projects include assignments for space agencies (NASA, ESA and ASI) for studies on the role of satellite in converged mobile/fixed/broadcasting environments and on the applicability of public private partnerships for space-based services. He has extensive experience in the strategic, technical and economic assessment of complex projects.

​Greg Harms (MSEE) worked in satellite manufacturing for thirty-five years prior to entering into a technical advisory capacity five years ago. Half of his experience was at Hughes Aircraft Company (now Boeing), followed by an equal period at Space Systems/Loral. He has developed a keen insight and deep respect for the intricacies and difficulties of manufacturing and testing space systems. His specialty has been communications systems that have ranged from UHF and L-band through C-, X-, Ku- and Ka-band. During his final decade at SSL he was responsible for early design and program management on two of the first high throughput satellite systems in industry – iPSTAR and ViaSat-1. He did early design work and architectural engineering as the campaign manager for the 50 Gbps iPSTAR satellite in Thailand. Later, he was lead engineer during the campaign and negotiations on the ViaSat-1 program. When the contract was signed, he was appointed Executive Program Manager at the customer’s request. He has a thorough understanding of HTS systems and satellite manufacturing from every discipline: requirements; design; development; manufacture; assembly; integration; test; launch; deployment; and operations. 

Doug Patterson (MBA/CPA) has spent his career primarily and technology industries including telecom, satellite and aerospace where he has focused his activities on new business development, mergers and acquisitions as well financial capital management.  Recently Doug has supported Iridium Communications business development including a financial role in the companies NEXT program.   In this role he was a member of the team that successfully obtained approx. $3B in capital to fund Iridium’ s second generation constellation of LEO satellites.    
Doug has had significant experience in public and private equity and debt markets including having participated in two successful IPO’s.  Earlier in his career he supported the funding of many new cellular carriers including Sprint and VoiceStream (now T-Mobile) developing loans in excess of $8B worldwide. ​

Pat O’Shaughnessy is a 35-year veteran of commercial and defense Earth Observation (EO) space and ground segment technologies. A true subject matter expert, Pat held senior technical and executive positions within the Earth Observation/Global Situational Awareness groups of Harris Corporation, Exelis, ITT and Eastman Kodak. He was Summit’s LTA team lead on sensors and processing of the EarthDaily/UrtheCast EO constellation financing. His experience on multiple military, intelligence and commercial EO programs afforded Pat the background to develop EO algorithms that manage and stage diverse imagery products. He has evaluated future, complex EO system architectures for development risk.
 
Pat’s experience spans both hardware and software.    He was the Senior Executive Director at Harris with over 700 employees developing space imaging payloads and systems for a variety of commercial and government programs.    He also has led a team of 45 Software Engineers to develop EO simulation and evaluation tools. He drove efficient evaluation of satellite & ground processing designs. He also led a large team of image scientists and software engineers to validate the design of a complex Government ground EO imagery processing solution. Pat was responsible for the development of EO calibration software to maximize imagery quality of commercial and government systems. He also developed modeling and simulation software to support imagery exploitation research and development.