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Jim Bennett is a 20-year commercial space development consultant with a client roster that includes Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Weaver Aerospace, Lockheed-Martin, NASA, and United Space Alliance. As an industry pioneer, he co-founded Arc Technologies (later Starstruck), which successfully test-launched the Dolphin rocket in 1984, and the American Rocket Company (AMROC), which developed the first large hybrid rocket as a commercial project. His regulatory successes include: negotiation of the first launch license for a commercially developed rocket in the U.S. (at Arc Technologies); the granting of one of the first launch permits under the new commercial space licensing regime (at AMROC); and participation in the writing and passage of the Commercial Space Launch Act. For three years he served as president and director of Advanced Technology Holdings, an investment group, and since 1997 he has been president and chairman of the board of ITTI, an international Internet banking firm. As a board member of three other companies, he has chosen to join XCOR s board of advisors because they have a really good plan, and with the collapse of the Internet bubble, it should be possible to raise capital for space. | 