In this fourth episode of This Planet’s on Fire, NYSA’s Joe Fargnoli and SSPI’s Lou Zacharilla host a conversation between Paul Gloyer, President of Gloyer-Taylor Labs LLC; Douglas Helmuth, Remote Sensing Scientist and Former Principal Investigator at Lockheed Martin SSC (now retired); and Sanjay Wagle, co-founder and Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group. Paul, Douglas, and Sanjay talk about what meaningful business cases can be made for sustainable technologies in space and satellite. This podcast is based on the New York Space Business Roundtable conversation conducted on January 19, 2022.

Paul Gloyer is the President of Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories in Tennessee, a position he has held since its founding in 2005. In his role, he serves as executive manager of top-level corporate strategy and provides direct supervision for Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories’ team of engineers and scientists performing cutting-edge research and development. Paul also serves as business development lead and a project manager for technical projects at the laboratories. Throughout his career at Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, he has been a technology innovator, having developed many innovative approaches for science and technology challenges, and also has served as a combustion instability researcher and technology, component and system developer for the laboratories. Before establishing Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, Paul served as a partner at Roxolani LLC for 12 years. He holds a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tennessee Space Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engingeering from the University of Kansas.

Douglas Helmuth is a Remote Sensing Scientist and served as Principal Investigator at Lockheed Martin SSC for many years before he retired. Throughout a long and distinguished career, he has published a variety of scientific papers in major journals and served as a guest speaker at academic and industry events.

Sanjay J. Wagle is the co-founder and Managing Director of the Lightsmith Group. His investment experience includes eight years in venture capital and growth equity. He was the first Principal in the CleanTech Group at VantagePoint Capital Partners, which invested over $1 billion in 25 companies, including Tesla Motors, in sectors such as solar, storage, smart grid, green building, water and sustainable agriculture. Earlier in his career, Sanjay served as an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation, where he led financings of private sector power and water infrastructure projects in developing countries. He has served in senior executive roles with several sustainable tech companies and co-led the launch of a new solar business: Soligent, the largest U.S. solar distributor, and of TerraVia, a biotech company converting plant-based feedstocks into tailored, high-value food oils. Sanjay also served as a senior official in the U.S. Department of Energy during the Obama Administration, where he oversaw the implementation of $15 billion in programs for clean energy and climate. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley.

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