Richard Coleman is Chairman, President, and Founder of Cyber, Space & Intelligence Association and President of Space Transportation Association.

CSIA focuses on issues critical to Cyber Security, Military Space and Intelligence, while STA focuses on launch and related issues critical to Space Exploration and assured access to space.

Mr. Coleman employs a unique leadership style featuring a mix of events and meetings, classified and unclassified, which result in a highly productive, valuable exchange of ideas, policies, methods, and technologies which benefit Government, Congress and Industry alike.

Previously, Mr. Coleman was Senior Associate of The Potomac Advocates, where he supported the DOD Special Capabilities Office in Cyber Security and Remote Sensing. Mr. Coleman, along with colleagues from the 175th Net Warfare Squadron of the Maryland Air National Guard, provided Cyber Security familiarization in Estonia and Georgia. For other clients, research was concentrated on Mergers & Acquisitions, Quantum Computing, and Battle Management C4ISR.

During the 1990s, Mr. Coleman co-founded and managed Space Express Corporation, which teamed with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle program, and co-founded and managed Wireless Power & Light Corporation – a high altitude communications company. While Chairman and CEO of WP&L, Mr. Coleman was personally awarded two patents for high altitude communications and related platforms by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

In the 1980s Mr. Coleman performed research for Defense Nuclear Agency, DOD OSD International Security Policy and West German MOD focused on West German and Soviet reaction to deployment of Pershing II, GLCM and Neutron Weapons in Europe, as well as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Graduate school research in the GWU Security Policy Studies program focused on US – Soviet Strategic relations prior to and during World War II and the Cold War, Soviet Foreign Policy, and Defense Program Analysis & Evaluation.

Previously, Mr. Coleman and his family sold Review Management Company, the mutual fund management company for OTC Securities Fund to Rockefeller & Company and The Prospect Group in New York. After the sale, Mr. Coleman worked for the two firms searching for investment and acquisition opportunities. Starting in 1987, Mr. Coleman founded and managed a boutique investment bank, RCV Investments, which specialized in Mergers & Acquisitions, working with US, European, and Japanese high tech clients.

Mr. Coleman started on the Hill in 1979, working with the Senate Steering Committee on nuclear weapons issues and the SALT II Treaty, and later served on the staff of Senator Dick Schweiker (R-PA). At George Washington University, Mr. Coleman received a Wolcott Scholarship and completed his Master’s degree in Security Policy Studies in 1983.

After graduate school, Mr. Coleman served as an Analyst with HRA, Inc, where he analyzed the above described Defense deployment programs.

MA, Security Policy Studies, George Washington University, 1983.

BA, International Relations and History, Lehigh University, 1978.