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Ernesto R. Martin

Summary

Mr. Martin has over 30 years of experience in high-tech businesses, including satellites and jet engines. He has run multi-million dollar companies and been a consultant to GE. 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 high-power satellite systems (like DirecTV) and on 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

ConsultResearch Inc., 1998-present
Mr. Martin founded ConsultResearch Inc. after retiring from 30 years in the satellite and jet engine businesses. It initially focused on providing engineering, computer and business consulting to high-technology companies, but later expanded to include Internet services and export of high-tech gear.

Amtec Companies, 1987-1998, Executive Vice President
Acted as Chief Operating Officer of these $36 million jet engine and jet engine parts companies, 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 rocketry to 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 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 has been an advisor to Cessna on Supplemental Inspection Documents (SIDs), is a webmaster of the Skymaster Owners and Pilots Association (www.337skymaster.org) and hosts a separate website (www.SkymasterUS.com) covering such technical 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 systems engineering team that in 1981 designed the first DBS TV system for the U.S. (many of the parameters used by the current DirecTV system are based on the FCC filing for that system). 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.