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Ernesto R. Martin

Summary

Mr. Martin has over 30 years of experience in high-tech businesses. He has run multi-million dollar companies and been a consultant to GE, after spending 20 years in satellite communications. With a Master's degree from Caltech, he has been an advisor to U.S. government agencies and foreign governments, and did some of the pioneering work in the U.S. on direct broadcast satellite television and high-definition television.

Education

BS Engineering, University of Florida, 1967 (High Honors)
MS Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1968
Graduate Management Courses, Harvard Bus. School, 1983

Employment

Independent Consultant, 1998-present
Heads ConsultResearch, Inc., a Delaware corporation based in South Florida, providing engineering, computer and business consulting to high-technology companies. The firm also provides export services, and designs, manages and/or hosts Internet websites for clients.

Amtec Companies, 1987-1998, Executive Vice President
Acted as Chief Operating Officer of this $36 million jet engine and jet engine parts company, with responsibility for such departments as sales, accounting and engineering. Also acted as CFO, inside counsel (contracts, litigation) and CIO (computers, networks and databases), and led many of the negotiations resulting in the sale of the Companies to a Swedish conglomerate.

Comsat Corporation, 1968-1987, Vice President in 1987
This was the world's largest firm providing international satellite communications. Had increasingly responsible positions in R&D and engineering, spanning from satellites to high definition television. Posted in Europe for 2 years with the European Space Agency (Europe's NASA). In the last 9 years also responsible for project management, sales, contracts, financing, strategic planning, governmental affairs and regulatory matters.

Miscellaneous

Was Teaching Assistant at Caltech
Have been independent engineering consultant to General Electric
Worked on commercial and government programs (U.S. Navy, FAA)
Chaired committees advising the U.S. government
Published widely on satellite communications matters (more)
Pioneered direct broadcast satellite (DBS) TV and HDTV in the U.S. (more)
Represented the U.S. in international diplomatic conferences
Quoted frequently in the press (e.g., London's Financial Times)
Taught satellite seminars in China, Kuwait, Canada and Mexico
Fluent in Spanish

Contact

Phone: 305-562-0565 Fax: 305-668-7863 E-mail:

Additional Information

Interests: Owns and flies a twin-engined Cessna 337 Skymaster aircraft, including frequent flights over Caribbean waters and (in his previous Skymaster) a round-trip from Miami to Boise, ID. He is also a webmaster of the Skymaster Owners and Pilots Association (www.337skymaster.org) and hosts a separate website (www.SkymasterUS.com) covering such topics as fuel management.

Publications: A sampling is presented below, ranging from the dynamic stability of satellites, to high-definition television, to profit seeking techniques for direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) systems:

"Experimental Investigations on the Fuel Slosh of Dual-Spin Spacecraft," COMSAT Technical Review, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1971.

"High Definition Television - A DBS Perspective," Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. SAC-3, No. 1, January 1985.

"DBS Systems - Perspectives From a Profit-Seeking Company," Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 9, No. 4, Fall 1984.

DBS and HDTV: Headed the team which in 1981 applied to the FCC for the first DBS TV system in the U.S. (many of the parameters used by the current DirecTV system are based on that filing). In 1985 wrote the first technical paper which considered various high-definition television systems then under development and analyzed their performance (e.g., picture quality) versus the resources necessary to broadcast such signals in the U.S. via direct-broadcast satellites.