Dale Amon has worked in technology and academia in the United States the United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland. A technology entrepreneur who has worked on many startups, one of which was the first Internet service provider in Ireland, he has also worked at Immortal Data IncQueens University in Belfast and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. At the latter he did hand-eye robotics at the Robotics Institute and haptic control systems for NASA in the Computer Music Lab. He has worked with Unix systems since 1983, and has deep knowledge and experience developing systems in this environment. Dale’s management credentials span several decades, with service on several Boards of Directors. He has nearly always been in a position where managing and dealing with people was of even greater importance than dealing with technology. He has worked with several NewSpace ventures, most recently as an on-site contractor to XCOR Aerospace on the Lynx Spaceplane. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and had completed several semesters of work on a graduate degree under Dr. Herbert Simon (Nobel laureate) in a multidisciplinary program involving Psychology, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science before he left to join a startup company.