Tom Olson

Mr. Olson is the Managing Partner at Exodus Consulting Group LLC. In the last 23 years, Mr. Olson has added value both in computer systems engineering and project management, as well as operations and investment analysis in financial services. As co-founder of Colonyfund.com, he helps engage the “alt.space” community in a realistic conversation concerning creative finance of, and business planning for, new space ventures. In his career, he has played a key role in projects for major firms in aerospace, civil engineering, communications, publishing and financial services. In 1987, he helped start up Sydney Capital, a cash and fund management firm. For the next three years he helped grow the firm’s base of assets under management from $50 million to $250 million.

A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Olson’s latest venture is Exodus Consulting Group, where he and his partners offer both independent due diligence services for tech sector VC investors and assist selected tech startups with structuring VC funding proposals.

Mr. Olson earned his undergraduate degrees in Biology at Portland State University and in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a founding member of the Mars Society and was elected an Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation in 2003. Mr. Olson lectures frequently at national space advocacy conferences and is a frequent guest on talk-radio programs such as The Space Show. His topics center on the fiscal, regulatory and political challenges of private space commercialization, public perceptions of space and humanity’s future in the high frontier.