Jose leads the collective effort at Caelus Foundation to build relationships globally with governments (and their agencies), commercial enterprises, investors, and other stakeholders. He also guides the foundation’s strategic direction for developing a Community in Space™. His passion is to ensure that we connect Community in Space™ and its meaning to general audiences, so that they are empowered to decide how they will participate in this community and how they will contribute to the project’s successful manifestation. He is also the founder, a lead owner, and a board member of consulting firm Caelus Partners.

Prior to founding Community in Space™ and the Caelus organizations, Jose was an Infantry Officer and a military strategist in the United States Army for more than 20 years. He led change efforts to fundamentally transform critical aspects of communities to help them thrive and prosper. He provided vision and direction to strategic and operational teams and worked across different cultures to understand stakeholders’ fragmented interests and to guide them to optimal solutions. Situations that lack global and nation-state structure are familiar ground for him. His unique experiences have shaped his expertise in building and developing communities where the situation is as volatile, uncertain, ambiguous, and challenging as it is in space today.

Jose holds a Master of Science in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy from the National Defense University (Joint Advanced Warfighting School) and both a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Blaine Curcio has spent most of his career working in the satellite communications and commercial space industry, with experience at satellite operator SES, and with a multiple industry consulting and research firms. Blaine is currently Founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting—a Hong Kong-based space industry consulting firm—and is also Senior Affiliate Consultant at Euroconsult, where he contributes to reports on China, satellite communications, and the space industry more broadly.

In addition to his work in the satellite communications industry, Blaine has spent his entire career in Asia, and is a recognized expert on several topics related to China. This has included giving lectures on the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s macroeconomy, and the Chinese space industry. He regularly attends conferences throughout Asia as a speaker and moderator, and is a contributor to SpaceWatch.Global, Talk Satellite, and the Satellite Executive Briefing, among other industry publications.

Blaine obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois State University, majoring in International Business, and will soon complete an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, with coursework emphasizing China business. Blaine speaks English and Mandarin.