Background
A seasoned international business, finance and legal senior executive with working experience in more than 50 countries. Lived in Miami, Brazil, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and New York City working as Chief Executive Officer, General Counsel, investor, financial executive, partner in global law firms and business consultant in developed and frontier locations. Deep experience in Global & Space Defense, Transportation, and Infrastructure. Significant skills include executive leadership, team development, capital formation, legal, financial, and administrative management, mergers & acquisitions, asset finance and commercial lending, and other significant business, contractual, and transactional matters.
Current Business Experience
GeoJump, Inc./Space Finance Corporation Ann Arbor, MI
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Founder. 2021 – Present. Founding CEO for New Space company developing space technology projects with Space Force and providing space-asset and space-project financing to the space industry.
Space Fund Labs Incubator Houston, TX
Strategic Advisor. 2021 – Present. Providing legal, transactional, investment and strategic advice and board services to incubator portfolio companies.
Michigan Defense, Aerospace & Space Association Lansing, MI
Chairman and Head of Legal Committee. 2020 – Present. mDASA is an independent 501(c)(6) organization promoting the growth of the defense, aerospace, and space sectors in the State of Michigan, including the goals of the bi-partisan Defense & Aerospace Caucus of the Michigan legislature.
Articles and Opinion Writer Hessel, MI
Freelance Writer. 2019 – Present. Written more than thirty published articles and opinion pieces about economics, business, and government policy for various newspapers.
Working Group for Proposed Courts of Space in the Dubai International Financial Center Dubai, UAE
Founding Member. 2019 – Present. Advising the DIFC Courts on the development of a Courts of Space center to be in Dubai, UAE.
U.S. Legal Advisors, PLLC Hessel, MI
Owner and Managing Partner. 2018 – Present. A law firm focused on advising clients on Global & Space Security, Transportation, and Infrastructure projects.
Rebelyon Development Group, LLC. Hessel, MI
Owner and President. 2018 – Present. Family office investing in and advising on Global & Space Security, Transportation, and Infrastructure projects. CAGE Code: 88x05.
Prior Business Experience
JetSmarter, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, FL
Advisory Board Member. 2017 – 2019. Provided transactional advice to the CEO regarding strategy matters and new business opportunities.
Reed Smith LLP New York, NY/Abu Dhabi, UAE
Corporate and Finance Partner at 1,800-attorney, International Law Firm. 2011- 2017. Developed, trained, and managed a UAE-based team and secured millions of dollars of fees from clients across multiple sectors and practices, including aviation, vessel and asset financing, banking, cross-border investments and transactions, defense and security industry, energy and natural resources, life sciences, media & entertainment, mergers & acquisitions, ports, private military companies, real estate, shipping, transportation & infrastructure and workouts & restructurings. Clients included royal family office and leading family groups in the UAE, transportation companies in the United States and Europe, media, entertainment and technology companies in Asia and the United Arab Emirates, life sciences companies in the United States and the Middle East, private military companies operating in Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates and financial institutions in the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.
Holland & Knight LLP Abu Dhabi, UAE
Executive Partner of Abu Dhabi Office of 1,100-Attorney, International Law Firm. 2005 – 2011. Founding and Executive partner of Abu Dhabi, UAE office. Developed strategy for Middle East and Central Asia expansion, recruited, trained, and managed all lawyers and staff and developed millions of dollars of business from new local and regional clients while supporting long-standing international clients, including transportation, defense, and security companies.
North Bay Equity Partners, LLC Miami, FL
2001-2011: Principal. Boutique investment bank focused on raising private equity and debt for businesses located in or doing business in Latin America.
Zi Corporation Calgary, AB
Member of the Board of Directors; Member of the Compensation Committee; Member of the Audit Committee; Member of the Strategy Committee; Member of Special Committee. 2004 – 2009. Publicly traded (NASDAQ: ZICA) developer and licensor of software for mobile and consumer-electronic devices. Emphasis on corporate governance, compensation, and audit matters. Key board member involved with resolution of conflict with largest shareholder and reconstituting board of directors. Co-lead director of independent directors. Was a key board member in negotiations and transactions for sale of company to Nuance Communications, Inc. on 9 April 2009.
Fundamental Management Corporation/Active Investors Funds Miami, FL
Principal and Member of the Board of Directors. 2003 – 2007. Fundamental Management Corporation is a general partner of Active Investors II and Active Investors III, equity investment funds that invest in under-valued and under-performing publicly traded companies. Through its board members, Fundamental Management Corporation played an active role in its portfolio companies, including serving on the board of directors, as interim management, consultants, etc.
Ryder System, Inc. Miami, FL
In-house counsel; Senior Manager, Market Planning & Analysis; and International Transaction Consultant. 1992 – 1997. Multiple roles in a leading transportation and logistics company.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Miami, FL
Associate, Corporate Securities Department. 1989 – 1992. Primary practice areas included SEC compliance, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, joint ventures, limited partnerships, shareholder agreements and general corporate legal advice.
Academic Experience
University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI
Lecturer, Introduction to Space Law & Policy, since 2023.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, International Transactions Clinic, since 2016. Focus on Space Law projects.
Faculty Advisor to the Society of Space Law and Law of the Sea and Manfred Lach's Space Law Moot Court Competition Teams, since 2020.
Education
University of Mississippi School of Law Oxford, MS
L.L.M. candidate in the Air & Space Law Center
Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Leading Professional Service Firms, Executive Education Program, 2010.
University of Miami, School of Business Administration Coral Gables, FL
Master of Business Administration in International Business, Class Valedictorian and Summa Cum Laude, 1995. G.P.A.: 4.0.
University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI
Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, 1988.
University of Michigan, School of Literature, Science and the Arts Ann Arbor, MI
Bachelor of Arts (Political Science), With Distinction, 1985.
Law Licensed Jurisdictions
U.S. States of Florida, Michigan and New York and District of Columbia Bar Associations.
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