Rex Ridenoure

Mr. Ridenoure is CEO and co-founder of Pasadena-based Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of rugged video systems used onboard rockets and spacecraft. Ecliptic’s revenues have grown each year since its inception in 2001 and has been profitable 12 straight quarters since mid-2005. Rex worked as a space-mission and –systems engineer and space-mission architect for 20 years at Hughes Space & Communications, Lockheed, Utah State University and JPL on ten space missions, including GEO comsats, Hubble, Voyager, Deep Space 1 and several small secondary space payloads. Since leaving JPL 11 years ago he has held leadership positions at entrepreneurial space firms Microcosm, SpaceDev, BlastOff and Ecliptic, plus a Google Lunar X PRIZE team. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and MS in Aeronautics from Caltech.