Gene Christiansen

 Mr. Gene Christiansen is the senior licensing officer in the Office of National Security and Technology Transfer Controls, Bureau of Industry and Security. In addition to processing licenses for aerospace, and marine items, he manages the commodity jurisdiction, commodity classification and licensing determinations for the Office. As a senior engineer, he is involved in many intra and inter agency working groups that are considering changes to export controls and practices. He is a frequent participant in the Department’s Export Administration Regulations training program and is the Bureau authority on aerospace and technology transfer issues. Mr. Christiansen joined the Department of Commerce in 1983 after serving 20 years in the Air Force. He holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University and a Masters in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri.
   

Anthony (Tony) Dearth

 Mr. Dearth currently holds the position of Chief, Missile and Spacecraft Division with the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls Licensing (DDTCL), where he is responsible for managing the team adjudicating all export licensing requests involving USML Categories IV, V, IX, X, XIV, and XV of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation. These duties involve providing authoritative guidance and direction to government agencies and defense industry to ensure compliance with federal statutes and regulations. Mr. Dearth has been with DDTCL since November 2003.

A retiree from the Air Force, Mr. Dearth’s twenty-one year military career spanned several positions in Nuclear Operations, Command and Control (C2), and Consequence Management (CM) with assignments including ICBM Operations; Systems Engineering, Analysis, Test and Evaluation; Nuclear Safety, Surety, and Training; Policy, Procedure, and Exercise Development; Arms Control Inspections, and Export Licensing.

Mr. Dearth graduated from the ROTC program at Kansas State University in 1984 with a BS in Computer Science, and earned his master’s degree in Systems Management in 1987 from University of Southern California.

He is married to the former Ms. Theresa Forman and has two children, Jason (20) and Elizabeth (17).

   
Ricardo (Rick) Di Cocco Rick Di Cocco is a Senior Engineer in the Technology Directorate of the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA). On the Missile and Space Team, he reviews export license applications for space related systems and recommends provisos to ensure U.S. national security interests in space technology are protected. He represents DTSA on the Remote Sensing Interagency Working Group (RSIWG) and the Defense Remote Sensing Working Group (DRSWG).

During July 2002-April 2005, Mr. Di Cocco was a Space Technology Safeguards Monitor in DTSA’s Space Directorate. He ensured U.S. satellite and rocket technologies were protected in accordance with U.S. law through technical data review and onsite monitoring of meetings and launch activities during industry efforts to manufacture and launch scientific, government, and commercial spacecraft.

Prior to joining DTSA in 2002, Mr. Di Cocco was a senior national security analyst for DynCorp National Security Programs Division. During 2000-2001, Mr. Di Cocco was Chief of Operations and Training for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) Division in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. He was responsible for the operational scheduling of 45 nuclear weapons inspectors on nine teams conducting over 35 annual START inspections in the former Soviet Union and escorting Russian inspectors conducting almost 30 annual START inspections in the United States.

During 1997-2000, Mr. Di Cocco was the Air Force Attaché in the Republic of Kazakhstan, one of the former Soviet republics. He reported on military activities to senior DoD leadership and provided assistance to the Kazakhstani military in the development of their armed forces in a democratic society. During 1992-1996, Mr. Di Cocco was a Mission Commander with the On-Site Inspection Agency. He led more than 25 inspection teams into the former Soviet Union for both START and the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

Mr. Di Cocco retired from the Air Force in 2001. During his twenty-three year career he also had assignments as an engineer in satellite operations, missile test launch operations, and worldwide airborne nuclear and environmental monitoring operations.

Mr. Di Cocco holds a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and a M.S. in Astronautics and Aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
   
Mark Gaspers Mark Gaspers is a Trade Control Specialist for The Boeing Company in support of its Space Exploration business division and the Future Combat Systems program. As a Trade Control Specialist, he primarily supports Boeing Space Exploration’s Constellation Program in its effort to support NASA’s Constellation architecture to return to the moon, and to send humans on to Mars and beyond.

Before coming to Boeing, Mr. Gaspers was the policy analyst for defense, homeland security, veterans, and NASA issues for the Senate Republican Policy Committee under the chairmanship of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ). At the RPC he produced in-depth research papers on complicated issues facing Congress. He kept Senators and their staff informed on legislation pending before the Senate, including defense authorization and appropriations, through legislative notices, amendment summaries, and staff briefings.

Mr. Gaspers also served two years as a Sr. Legislative Assistant for Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. He was responsible for defense, foreign affairs, homeland security, trade, and health care issues. He staffed the Congressman on the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and the House Policy Subcommittee on Freedom, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights. While a defense LA, he received a certificate upon completion of the Air Command and Staff College with the Air Force Fellows section. Prior to his service in the House, Mr. Gaspers worked on health care issues for Sen. Jon Kyl’s office.

Mr. Gaspers received his master's degree in national security studies from Georgetown University in 2001. While at Georgetown, he served as an associate editor of National Security Studies Quarterly and worked as a research assistant for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, with a bachelor's degree in political science. While at LMU, he was also a Hansard Scholar, during which he studied at the London School of Economics and served as a research assistant in the British House of Commons.
   
Paula Geisz Paula Geisz is a native of Washington, D.C., and has served as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Manager, International Technology Transfer Policy and NASA Export Administrator since January 2007. This position is located in the Export Control and Interagency Liaison Division in the Office of External Relations at NASA Headquarters.

From 2003 until 2007, Ms. Geisz served as Director, Resources Management Division in the Office of External Relations, and as part of the senior management team was responsible for financial management, human resources and a wide variety of tasks that included the NASA presence at 5 overseas locations. Ms. Geisz was part of the three-person team that created the NASA Export Control Program in 1995. She supported the first NASA senior Manager for International Technology Transfer Policy and NASA Export Administrator, Mr. Robert Tucker, and the then NASA Export Counsel, Mr. John Hall, in establishing and implementing an agency-wide system that spanned 12+ facilities.

Ms. Geisz’ career with NASA has spanned over thirty years beginning in the Office of Legislative Affairs in the 1970s. She has served in positions that provided increasing challenges and opportunities in areas such as information specialist, personnel, administration, financial management, and management analyst. She is a 1998 Council for Excellence in Government Fellow.

Ms. Geisz has received many awards, most notably, she was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2003 for outstanding contributions and dedicated service to the NASA Export Control Program. She also received the Headquarters Exceptional Service Award once in 2002 and once in 1998 and the Space Flight Awareness Award in 2001.
   
Mitchell Goodkin

Mitch Goodkin is an Assistant General Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Michigan and Special Counsel to the Division of Research Development and Administration, where his primary focus is export issues.  Mr. Goodkin has been licensed to practice law since 1983, and is also a Licensed Professional Engineer.  He has been with UM since 1988 and has had extensive experience there with technology transfer, intellectual property, export and other technology/business issues.  In a prior private practice, Mr. Goodkin addressed product liability, business law, intellectual property, export and other technology related matters.  Prior to becoming an attorney, he had extensive experience in marketing, engineering, manufacturing and computer programming; and in management of information systems and of engineering. As an engineer, Mr. Goodkin participated in the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package and the Earth Resources Technology Satellite ground station projects.  Mr. Goodkin taught electronics courses at a local community college while in law school.  He also was an electronics technician and taught computer maintenance courses in the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Goodkin has the following degrees: J.D., Wayne State University; M.B.A., University of Michigan; and B.S and M.S. Engineering, UCLA.  He is a past Chair of the Computer Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.
   
John Hall John Hall is a native of Washington, D.C., who serves as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Director for Export Control and Interagency Liaison. Previously, he served as NASA’s Manager of International Technology Transfer Policy, and the Agency’s Export Control Administrator. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Hall served as the Senior Counsel for International and Commercial Space Programs in the Office of the General Counsel at NASA Headquarters. He has been awarded NASA’s Spaceship Earth Award for Outstanding Community Service and Leadership, as well as citations from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General and the Kennedy Space Center.

Previously, Mr. Hall spent several years as an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the United States Department of Commerce, where he counseled political principals, foreign governments, and client agencies on international trade and export policies affecting national security, foreign policy, and economic interests. He also advised U.S. industry regarding export control policy and regulations. In 1994, Mr. Hall was awarded the Commerce Department's highest honor, the Gold Medal, for his work in developing effective export control programs in the newly-democratic nations of Central and Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining the government, Mr. Hall was in private law practice with the Washington, D.C., firm of Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, where his practice focused upon international trade, international law, and litigation. He also served in the United States Senate on the staff of Senator Pete V. Domenici for several years.

Mr. Hall is the author of several nationally-published articles and is a frequent speaker on export control, national security, and international policy matters. He is also an elected City Council member for the City of Rockville, Maryland, and was recently reelected to that office by the largest margin of any candidate. Rockville is the County seat for Maryland’s largest county, and is one of the largest cities in the State of Maryland.

Mr. Hall is a graduate of the Washington & Lee University School of Law and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is admitted to the Virginia Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.
   
Jahna M. Hartwig Ms. Hartwig is the Associate General Counsel responsible for export control and international matters at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Prior to joining APL, she worked as an Associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and at Kaye Scholer LLP specializing in international trade, including countervailing and antidumping duties and customs cases, and export controls. Ms. Hartwig has represented clients on matters before the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Court of International Trade, NAFTA Panels and the World Trade Organization.

Ms. Hartwig obtained her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School in 1999. She was a managing editor of The Environmental Lawyer. She also has taught legal research and writing to international students. Upon completion of her law degree in 1999, Jahna clerked for the Honorable Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr. at the U.S. Court of International Trade. Ms. Hartwig’s other legal experience includes being a legal intern at the International Human Rights Law Group and the Office of General Counsel of the Governor of Pennsylvania.
   
Caroline D. Himes Caroline Himes is the Executive Associate Director at the Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics (LASP), a research institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder. LASP employs over 240 professionals and 120 students in conducting space research, receiving over $48 in research awards annually, primarily from NASA. Spaceflight hardware developed at LASP has been sent to every planet in the solar system. Ms. Himes joined LASP in 1997 and directs the operations, accounting, finance, human resource, and facilities functions of the Laboratory. She has been an active participant in the development of the Boulder Space Matrix, a networking group of government, university, and business entities working on space programs in the Boulder area. She is also member of the Colorado Space Coalition and member of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Budget and Finance Committee at CU.

Ms. Himes has over 28 years experience in financial and operational management positions. Prior to joining LASP, Ms. Himes worked as Controller/ Chief Financial Officer for several high-tech firms in Boulder and Dallas responsible for all financial, legal, and human resource functions. She also served as Controller for the John Glenn Presidential Committee in Washington, D.C. overseeing all of the business aspects of the national campaign. Her career began as a computer systems consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ms. Himes has a BSBA in Accounting and an MS in Resource Economics, both from The Ohio State University.

In addition to her professional activities, in the past 10 years, Ms. Himes has served on the Board of Directors for the League of Women Voters of Boulder County, on the Board and as President of Blue Sky Bridge, as Treasurer for Mary Keenan’s campaign for District Attorney, member of the Board and Treasurer of the YWCA of Boulder County, and current board member of the Center for ReSource Conservation.
   
Olga King As Manager and Empowered Official of the JPL’s Office of Export Compliance, Ms. King is responsible for a wide-range of diverse activities regulated under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). She oversees all activities involving technology transfer and providing of defense services for international space missions and technology jurisdiction for all programs. She manages trade compliance issues based on best practices and benchmarking with industry’s defense technology providers. She also oversees education, training, recruiting and retention of export licensing and compliance professionals on her staff.

Ms. King has over 15 years of Trade Compliance experience working for various Silicon Valley corporations including direct compliance management of their defense technology divisions. For the past 4 years, Ms. King has focused on licensing and compliance of satellite technology and space based instruments at an FFRDC facility. She has developed and implemented compliance policy, processes and procedures to support technology transfer and compliance.

Prior to entering the world of trade compliance Ms. King was a research assistant for Environmental Bio-Technologies, a firm that develops fungal and bacterial technology for remediation of contaminated soil and water.
   
Martin E. Maier Mr. Maier is currently the on-site Program Manager for General Dynamics Information Technology, under contract to NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, for Export Control Support Services. His career background includes career service in the US Air Force, specializing in engineering, development, testing and evaluation of aircraft systems, missiles and other weapon systems, plus acquisition of test support facilities and infrastructure. While on Air Force duty, Mr. Maier served approximately three and a half years as a Licensing Officer in the State Department, Office of Defense Trade Controls (now DDTC), with primary focus on Technical Assistance and Manufacturing License Agreements. He also served on the Pentagon staff of the Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs (SAF/IA), reviewing industry export license applications primarily staffed from the State Department. Following retirement from the Air Force, he was employed as a Senior Analyst at Analytic Services, Inc. (ANSER) in Arlington, Virginia, under contract to Air Force Pentagon acquisition management staff. His work at ANSER primarily focused on review of industry export license applications staffed from the State Department through SAF/IA and concerning space programs (SAF/AQS). Mr. Maier is a Certified US Export Compliance Officer (CUSECO®) since 2004.
   
Lou Ann McFadden Lou Ann McFadden is Senior Space Technology Export Engineer at the Defense Trade Security Administration (DTSA) Space Directorate (SD). She first acted as a technology control monitor for the US Government in 1996, when it was a volunteer position and not a full-time career posting. Ms. McFadden has monitored numerous Launch Campaigns in locations all over the world including Baikonur Cosmosdrome - Kazakhstan, Plesetsck Cosmodrome - Russia, Yasny Cosmodrome - Russia, Vandenerg Air Force Base - California, and Sea Launch campaigns in the South Pacific Ocean Area. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and a Juris Doctorate from St. Louis University. Ms. McFadden is a registered member of the California State Bar Association.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Ms McFadden began her career in US Government service as an electronics engineer at Scott Air Force Base, IL with the Air Force Communications Command. She worked her way quickly through team engineer, lead engineer, and supervisory engineering positions. She designed, fabricated, installed, and tested secure satellite voice communications systems for the Joint Strategic Command and Air Mobility Command. She was selected to lead a team of engineers that analyzed air battle planning communications during Operation DESERT STORM and made technology and process recommendations to the Air Staff.

In 1994, she transferred to Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA to work as an engineer for the 30th Range Squadron. She directed all communications support for ballistic missile tests and two Spacelift programs - Orbital Science’s Pegasus and Taurus programs.

In 1997, Ms McFadden began work in the private sector for Lockheed Martin Corporation on a $500 million plus acquisition program to upgrade Eastern and Western Spacelift Test Ranges in the US. She approved the technical designs for communication systems that transport voice, video, telemetry, and other Range safety data throughout the various facilities. She also worked for a year at Quintron Systems, Inc. as corporate counsel. She provided guidance with Government acquisition contracts and employee affairs.

She returned to Government service in 2002 as a Program Support Manager for the Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. She coordinated all launch services from program initialization, pre-launch support, and launch day activities as well arranged mid- and down-Range support for all launch activities. She specialized in the Evolved Expendable Launch Program (EELV) Boeing Delta IV, Boeing Delta II, and various Missile Defense Agency target vehicles.

In 2004 she became a full-time Technology Export Monitor for Defense Technology Security Administration based in Alexandria, VA. After years as a monitor, she was promoted to be a Team Chief in the Space Directorate. As a Team Chief she approves Technology Transfer Control Plans from Export Applicants, assigns Monitors to support hundreds of requests from applicants each year, and reports on the assigned exporter’s compliance with their licenses. She is responsible for the training and preparation of the monitors from her team. She currently is responsible for monitoring programs such as Sea Launch, AsiaSat, Sirius, Alphabus, Taurus, and ArabSat.io to come
   
Frederic Nordlund Frederic Nordlund is currently the Head of the European Space Agency (ESA) Washington Office, representing ESA in the US and Canada. In this capacity, he supports cooperative actions of ESA with NASA, NOAA, the USGS, the Canadian Space Agency and many other entities. In a previous capacity, Mr. Nordlund was an Administrator at ESA’s International Relations Department where he was responsible of ESA’s relations with Japan, Canada and many of ESA’s activities with the United States. He contributed to coordination of international actions with ESA’s Member States and negotiated numerous agreements with different governments and space agencies. Before starting his career in 1992 at ESA, Mr. Nordlund worked in various firms in Canada. Among other tasks, he could contribute to the formulation of the first Canadian Long-Term Space Plan. He received both his Masters of law and degree in Political Sciences from Bordeaux University, France in 1986 and his LL.M. from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1988. Mr. Nordlund is a graduate of the International Space University (Summer Session in 1989). He held functions in multiple professional associations – e.g. Vice President International, American Astronautical Society (AAS) – 2002-2004, Member of the Board of the Washington Space Business Roundtable (2001-2005), Member of the International Programs Committee, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, etc.
   
John Ordway John Ordway has practiced for over two decades primarily in the fields of government procurement and export control law. Mr. Ordway’s current practice focuses on the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and Mr. Ordway is recognized globally for his expertise in application of the ITAR to various segments of the commercial space industry. In particular, Mr. Ordway advises extensively regarding the ITAR in connection with disputes regarding U.S. satellite failures and purchases by foreign persons of U.S. satellites.

Mr. Ordway is a former co-chair of the ABA International Section’s International Procurement Committee, an Advisor to the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and speaks and writes frequently on the ITAR and government procurement. Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, L.L.P. is a sponsor of the Washington Space Business Roundtable.

Mr. Ordway received his J.D. from George Washington University Law School, and his B.A. from Harvard University. Between college and law school, Mr. Ordway studied Mandarin Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan on a Rotary Graduate Fellowship.
   
Jack Shane Jack Shane is a Partner in the International Trade Practice Group at Wiley Rein LLP, a Washington, D.C. law firm. While at the firm he has worked extensively on export control issues, representing various clients before the Departments of State, Defense, Commerce and Treasury, on export control, national security, foreign policy and compliance matters. He also has particular expertise in drafting complex technical assistance and manufacturing license agreements, developing export compliance programs, conducting export control due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and handling voluntary disclosures.

Mr. Shane has made export presentations for seminars sponsored by the Society for International Affairs and Southwest Research Institute. He has also lectured on export control matters at Georgetown University Law Center and prepared related course material.

Mr. Shane received his B.A. degree at Bucknell University, magna cum laude, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center.
   
Andrew (Andy) E. Zirkelbach Mr. Zirkelbach is a Senior Attorney for Ball Corporation where he specializes in government contracts and export control matters pertaining to Ball Corporation’s subsidiary, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Mr. Zirkelbach also serves as Vice President and head of corporate export compliance for Ball Aerospace. Ball Aerospace supplies full-up spacecraft systems, including remote sensing satellites, as well as instruments, sensors and other components for such systems. Ball Aerospace also supplies antennas for military, civil and commercial applications, as well as night vision, video and other optical and electronic products for the aerospace industry.

Prior to joining Ball Corporation in 1997, Mr. Zirkelbach practiced law primarily in the areas of government contracts and export control with the firms of Howrey & Simon (1992-1997) and Pettit & Martin (1990-1992).

Preceding his practice of law, Mr. Zirkelbach worked for Hughes Aircraft Company and Northrop Corporation as an aerospace engineer.

Mr. Zirkelbach’s education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University, a Master of Science degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.