Management Team: Dr. Paul Clancy (Founder and CEO) and Mr. Nicholas Larter (Director of Operations)

Dr. Paul Clancy is a senior strategic planning manager with extensive experience of science and technology planning in the space area in a European and international context and in particular in the human spaceflight and life and physical sciences in space domain. He has until recently been with the Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA) located at its research and technology centre (ESTEC) located in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Earlier (1985-1996) he was responsible for programme planning and future studies in this area at ESA HQ in Paris. Particular highlights were his initiation and management of the science team, pre-Phase A and Phase A studies for all ESA life and physical science multi-user facilities for the International Space Station and the development of the programme proposal to ESA Member States for the development phase of those facilities designated the Columbus MFC programme that was approved at the ESA Ministerial Conference in Toulouse in October 1995 at a level of €250M. His most recent duties included planning and future studies for European utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS), and the ESA involvement in exobiology and the future human exploration of Mars. He has had extensive experience with ESA science advisory committees in life and physical sciences and in representing ESA regarding ISS utilisation with international partners such as NASA, JAXA (Japan), CSA (Canada) & RSA (Russia) and European national space agencies and external links with major space companies in Europe.

Mr. Nicholas Larter was employed as a consultant with General Technology Systems (GTS) Ltd., Uxbridge, England from 1985 - 89, as a research fellow at Brunel University, based at the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering (BIB), Uxbridge, England, from 1989 to 1991 and as a senior payload operations engineer with Space Applications Services (SAS) S.A./N.V., Brussels, Belgium, from 1991 to 1996. His core work for much of this 11 year period consisted of interface engineering for a range of space life sciences payloads, most of which were ESA projects. In mid-1996 he founded Technology Troubleshooter, a consultancy company working from a base in the Shannon region of the Irish Republic. This business was established as an organisation to provide high quality, independent technical consultancy and management services to complex projects in the aerospace and ICT sectors. In 2000 he became a director of Astrocourier (Ireland) Ltd. an aerospace services company striving to provide low cost access to space for educational institutions, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts and in 2003 he became a director of ESP Technologies Ltd. a software development and ICT consultancy company.