Hoyt Davidson is the founder and Managing Partner of Near Earth LLC, an investment bank providing M&A advisory, private placement and financial and strategic consulting services to the commercial space industry. Clients include major companies, institutional investors, and early-stage entrepreneurial firms.

Hoyt received a Physics degree from MIT and upon graduation spent six years in the Space Systems Division of Lockheed leaving as a Senior Research Engineer to return to MIT for an MBA. At MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Mr. Davidson was awarded the Henry B. duPont III scholarship for academic excellence and headed to Wall Street where he rose to the level of Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and later at Credit Suisse. At DLJ in the mid-1990s, he co-founded the Space Finance Group, the first coverage group focused on the commercial satellite industry. This group had a #1 ranking for the sector for many years and raised over $15 billion for commercial satellite companies. In 2002, he left Credit Suisse to start Near Earth LLC, to continue helping space-related companies grow.

Mr. Davidson currently serves on the Board of the Space Foundation, where he served as Treasurer from 2016 – 2019 and is the Executive Vice President of the National Space Society where he oversees policy, international and technology roadmap. He has formerly served on the NASA Advisory Council for Commercial Space and the board of NanoRacks LLC. Mr. Davidson currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Lynk Global, Nexteon Technologies, CisLunar Industries and the Beyond Earth Institute.

Tim is a former CIA intelligence officer who supported the National Space Council, a retired Army intelligence officer, and a former intelligence advisor to the Joint Staff at the Pentagon. He holds two master’s degrees — one in Intelligence Studies, and one in International Relations and Affairs from American University — and is the author of the book “Humanity in Space.” Tim’s next challenge and mission is to make space accessible, survivable, and routine for human exploration and migration.