Ben Reytblat
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Ben Reytblat
Ben Reytblat is CEO of CEDev, a custom systems integrator focusing on open source solutions. He has over twenty-seven years of experience in technical, corporate, sales, marketing and financial arenas. A life-long space enthusiast, he has followed NASA, the aerospace industry and the emerging Alt.Space community. To help shape the debate on space exploration and emerging trends he started a blog, Thin Layer, at http://thinlayer.blogspot.com/. He also contributed to the start-up of the Grokspace.org web site, which will explore the legal and regulatory issues related to space exploration. He has advanced degrees in computer science and mathematics and regularly speaks on the topics of Internet technologies. He was a visiting lecturer at Rutgers University, and has publications on software design and development. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computing Machinery. He served on the New Jersey Technology Council's Board of Directors.