Chris Stott is the Founder and Executive Chair of Lonestar Data Holdings Inc., the world’s leading space based secure data storage company, having sent the first in a series of data centers to the International Space Station and the Moon for global disaster recovery. A life time entrepreneur, Chris is also the Founder and now Non-Executive Chair of River Advisers (formerly ManSat), the world’s largest commercial provider of satellite spectrum.

Prior to founding River Advisers (ManSat), Chris was an executive with Lockheed Martin Space Operations working with NASA’s Depe Space Network and TDRSS satellite systems, and The Boeing Company and McDonnel Douglas on the Delta Launch Vehicle Program. Before this Chris worked as a speech writer and advisor in US and UK politics in Washington DC (US Senate and White House) and Westminster (House of Commons and House of Lords).

Chris’s passion for the economics and commerce of space has led him to co-found the Institute of Space Commerce in Austin in the United States and the International Institute of Space Commerce in the British Isles. He has served on faculty at the International Space University (ISU) since 2003 and is a former co-chair of the University’s School of Business and Management. Chris is a guest lecturer in space law and regulation at MIT Media Labs, the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Stanford University, and the School of Law at the University of Houston. He has also served on the Main Board of the Challenger and Conrad Foundations, and served fifteen years on the Main Board of the International Space University.

Chris serves today on the Board of Trustees of the AMAR Foundation and the Institute of Space Commerce.

Chris is holds a Bachelors of Arts from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, and a Masters in Space Science and Space Law from the International Space University, Strasbourg, France.

In his spare time, Chris is a multi-award winning producer, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He is a published Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and an honorary member of the Isle of Man Astronomical Association. He is also a published author with the Adam Smith Institute. A naturalized Manx American, Chris lives in Florida with this wife and son and their dogs. He enjoys shooting (pistol, rifle, skeet, and trap), SCUBA and Free Diving, and flying helicopters. He drinks way too much coffee, rarely watches TV, and when he needs to sleep he reads his own bio.